Widdershins

Got a new employee at work today! 

 I was scared though. I don't talk much. I was always taught to obey commands & not get in the way. He was a new thing. New things are stuff I gotta deal with. I was the only other english speaker, and of course they wanted somebody to show him stuff. They foisted him on me.  I was cautious.

  ...but then... Because I was the only other english speaker at the time... he actually talked to me! New Guy gave me attention! I like attention! He new! He not know things I know! Maybe I show him things I do, he Impressed, then he talk more & maybe we do things! I love New Guy! 

 I started getting alot more animated around him, my country accent came out alot more, think I was starting to hyperventilate just at the notion of him going on about some half-heard nonsense about bikes or something. Heck, the low, nagging migraine I've been having all week faded away with him around! My mind just kind of blanked on the idea of: "Yeah! Yeah! New Guy give attention! I love new guy!!! Yaaay!!" 

It was exactly that situation where you invite a strange new friend home & the family dog spends an hour or two skulking around & giving him the stink-eye. Then when you give your friend a treat for the dog, it gets into the pup's head that "Strange Thing can be... Nice?!!?" and then spends the rest of the night inseperable with him & even whines at the door when he leaves.

 Think it was apparent too. The kinda loud, gossipy lady was chittering about something she found funny in my general direction, most likely because I had just bounded past to literally come to New Guy's heel and wiggle in place just because I wanted to help & was that desperate for attention. 

    ....Gad, I'm such a Corgi!!! 

  I'm so not used to people tolerating my existence or just simply noticing me. That... that isn't too much to ask, right? To just have a buddy, somebeing to have stupid, pointless little conversations with no real goal or aim to get you to do something? To have a relationship that isn't based on hammering new tricks into my pointy little skull? 

  ... *whimper-whine*

  ... My fursona would totally be a corgi if I wasn't so deadset on a supercool set of scales!