Well I'm with you Rattler! Yesterday we got off work a little early because it snowed. So last nite I was making a vat of Chicken Divan for the office party to be held today. I had the sauce made, the broccoli steaming, the chicken breasts cooked and cooling. I went into the den for a few minutes. I noticed Ollie wasn't around. It was very quiet. No dog + quiet = trouble. So, I went to the kitchen to check. Sure 'nuff Ollie is in the kitchen. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at the plate of chicken. Uhoh...not in the same position it was when I left it. I check it out and discover that one of the three huge chicken breasts is MISSING. I looked in the sink...I looked in the floor...I looked all over. No chicken. I looked at Ollie and started yelling at him! "Ohmigod you ate the chicken for the Chicken Divan!!!" As I'm shrieking...he's just calmly staring at me. I stop yelling. He looks me right in the eye...and..BURPS! He ate the chicken and has the nerve to burp in my face! I couldn't believe it.
Ollie was so bad throughout the rest of the evening (later jumping up on the table in the breakfast room and walking amidst some CHINA) that he got crated. He also seems to think snow is evil because every time I let him out, he'd just stand and bark and growl (simultaneously...causing me to check to see if there were TWO dogs in the yard).
Things deteriorated further. Shortly after that, while chopping the two remaining chicken breasts, there was a HUGE explosion and flash of white light...scared me to death! The power goes out. I'm left with a half-finished casserole and no power. I have no phone, no TV, no computer, no radio...so no way to find out about work today. I finished the casserole by lamp light. The party ends up being cancelled and I have a vat of Chicken Divan... and no party. But my coworkers were happy because they LOVE it and they get to eat it.
So lunch today was on me...Chicken Divan and salad with homemade Thai peanut ginger-lime dressing. Yum!
Ollie is...well...a Bean.
Good thing I don't own any firearms...