Eva had an unfortunate exchange with those neighbors

[conuly]

Where they called Finn "Cocoa" and then were snotty that "he's forgotten his name" because he didn't respond.

So. Uh. First of all, I have to start seriously documenting this stuff, because of all the things wrong with that conversation I think the most salient part is the fact that it even happened.

But secondly, there is a reason that Finn has been taught to sit and to come using hand signals.

That reason is that he is particularly bad at parsing human speech. I don't know if this is because he's somewhat deaf or because he's got some sort of canine auditory processing disorder, but it only took us a few weeks to figure this out. The way I see it, in their little self-imposed game of "who's the better dog owner" we're now up to approximately 100,000 : nil.

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Comments

[konsectatrix]

Hahaha I remember some of these commercials-- Baby Laughs a Lot, Milky, and Growing Up Skipper (I think they ran commercials for much longer back then than they do now, too. Some of those ran for YEARS). I never owned any of them though, I was really into trucks as a baby, apparently?

I had a discussion about the Alien toy at one point, and it made a mention into one of my stories, because I could not for the life of me figure out who they were marketing to--none of the kids in that age bracket could have seen the movie (it's not like they could catch it on cable or rent it, and it was an R-rated flick).

I had that same dissonance when the original Robocop toys and cartoon came out. I mean, trust me I was THERE for those, but teens and young adults buying toys was still something that got you made fun of--at least in that case, there WAS a cartoon for the 8-11 yr olds they were going for, but it was very short-lived.

[conuly]

Sometimes kids get into this or that through pop cultural osmosis.