Welcome to our friendship boat, a loosely structured bonus Patreon episode of friendship

that also turns Gabe's joke tragedy into triumph.

Climb aboard, everybody.

Climb aboard our friendship boat.

Oh, God.

Friendship boat?

Like, come on.

Quit playing with your dinghy.

I got these little, like, things with the doorbell receiver that have Velcro on them,

that you can, like, train your dog to hit it, and it brings a doorbell so they want to go outside.

Because he doesn't really, like, sit by the door or anything.

Yeah.

That's cool.

I should do that for Walter, except Darla will do it a million times. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing. It also came with a clicker, and it's the exact same ones that we use. Oh, my God. Also, last night, I don't remember what Darla was talking about, but it was like she couldn't figure out which side of your hand you used to do it. She said, do you do it with the back of your hand or with your paw? It was just so. I was like, God, she's so fucking great. I just, uh, I just laid down for a nice little 25 minute uninterrupted. Just kidding. They came in every 30 seconds. John's on a business call. And so fuck mom if she's trying to rest. I'm like, I just have to close my eyes for like 20 minutes. And they're like, oh, who cares? Who cares? Right. This is the 80s, so this would never fly now. But up in Spooner, we would go to my friend, the Mills's house, all of us kids. and the mom would take a nap and she would lock us out of the house.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah. friend's the mills house all of us kids and the mom would take a nap and she would lock us out of the house yeah oh yeah all of us we're all under 10 yeah like literally running around the

neighborhood in town my parents did not know that I told them about that they were like what

oh see those were my parents because most of my childhood memories were of being locked outside.

It's not like, we drank from a hose because that's what we did.

We drank from a hose because we didn't have an option of water from anywhere else.

There were no other sources.

You guys lived in the country.

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