A real conversation with the dental assistant

(whom I am seeing more often these days than I would like).

 

Dental assistant (on the phone): Oh, I hear your dog in the background.

Me (sarcastically): Yup, my little "puppy."

DA: What kind is it?

Me: Uh, it's Roger.

DA: (confused silence)

Me: My 5 year old.

 

Yup, my 5 year old son likes to pretend he's a dog (that is, when he's not pretending to be a cheetah, tiger, beluga whale, or some other creature), and apparently he's convincing enough that he fooled our friend the dental assistant...