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A few months ago, I stumbled coming down my stairs, split my chin open, and had to spend the night at the hospital to get stitches. That’s an experience I hope I don’t have again.

I got there around 9 p.m. and was there all night, it being almost 5 a.m. before I saw the inside of the emergency room and the medical injection molding equipment seemingly found in doctors’ offices and hospitals everything. I didn’t bring a laptop or anything for the waiting room, just sitting and watching CBS. Let me say, television gets real bad around 2:30 in the morning when the prostate infomercial comes on. A 30-minute long ad on custom injection molding (any type of overmolding, really) would have been preferable.

That says nothing of the people I was around. Lacking health insurance and living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I went to a public hospital in East Oakland. The highlight of the people present was a presumably homeless lady who undressed in front of me and later asked me for money for a soda. I’ve blocked it out in my memory.

It’s funny, for all the hours that I waited, when I finally got stitched up, it took a matter of minutes (though I still have bills for about $1,500 that need to be settled.) It’s like sitting all day fishing or going to a baseball game, where in a three-hour contest, the ball is in play for about five minutes. On the water, at the ballpark, or in the hospital, the true drama is in the wait.

Far as I can remember, my family never invested in dog training classes when I was young. Not that we didn’t need them.

If there’s a single trait that’s defined the three dogs my family has owned, it’s character. That’s another way of saying wild. For better or worse, my parents have let every dog we’ve had be itself, much as they did the same for my sister and I, and while I think it’s an admirable gesture and a beneficial one in the long run (both for my sister and I and the dogs), it’s led to some colorful results.

Our basset hound Buster used to bolt after squirrels and once squared off on me when I took his lamb bone. It would’ve been less scary if I wasn’t four and shorter than he stood on his hind legs. Buster had a temper and would rear his head back and howl at the slightest provocation. We used to have give him tranquilizers when people in our neighborhood set off firecrackers at the Fourth of July and Chinese New Year.

The smaller dogs we had after Buster, Greta and Snoopy seemingly had tradition of barking at every animal that passed by our house. In fact, it was a sign of their impending mortality and a little sad when they stopped doing it.

I’ve loved every hound my family’s had, though it’s not to say some course at a dog training business wouldn’t have benefited them. Knowing my family, the dogs would’ve still been free to be themselves, perhaps simply with more refined characteristics and less bad habits. That could’ve been a good thing.

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