[Sookie]

I was chatting happily away in chat tonight so I told DH to please go pick up Jana, our daughter, from work. She gets off at 9PM and needs a ride. He says OK and I hear him leave, car start, etc.

A few minutes later I hear Kalina barking like crazy and I'm thinking to myself "It sounds like she's outside on the porch". I run to the living room and she is outside on the porch, which means DH left without even looking to see where the dogs were and she runs outside after him. NO MATTY!! Matty is nowhere to be seen and Kalina is barking over the side of the porch.

It's pitch dark out and I'm shaking like a leaf now because I think Kalina is trying to tell me that tiny Matty fell off the porch and is in the bushes dead of a broken neck or something equally horrible. I start screaming MATTY, MATTY and of course my neighbor hears the screeching and comes running out.

She gets a flashlight and we start looking all around for Matty, nowhere to be seen! Can I tell you that my heart is beating like a drum now?

My neighbor and I put Kalina on a leash and, with flashlight in hand, start walking around the neighborhood calling MATTY and looking for her. I'm scared to even look because I don't want to see her dead in the street.

At this point my husband comes driving down the street with Jana AND MATTY in the car. He took her with him to pick up Jana!! AND HE NEVER TOLD ME!! AND HE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE KALINA WAS ON THE PORCH. Anyone could have stolen Kalina!!

I am relieved now, but I'm so angry with him. He went to bed, but I keep going up there and going in the bedroom to tell him what an idiot he is!!