![]() Vonetta asked again so she could have her routine rehearsed in her head-her curtsy, smile, and greeting-leaving Fern and me to stand around like dumb dodos. Not because she was anxious to meet Cecile. How could she have gotten this wrong? Vonetta asked me again. Merriam Webster was falling down on the job. And at least the mother of a litter sticks around and nurses her pups no matter how sharp their teeth are. And people who litter shouldn’t be given a cute name for what they do. Puppies don’t deserve to be called a litter like they had been dropped carelessly like garbage. “Litter.” I had a mind to write to Miss Webster about that. ![]() Dropping garbage and having puppies shouldn’t be called the same thing. ![]() There’s nothing cute about dropping things carelessly. ![]() They call the careless folks who drop things by a cute name: litterbug. They call it littering when you carelessly drop things. If I were him, picking up after people who carelessly dropped stuff on the ground, I’d be nothing but angry. “dustpan that he emptied into a larger trash can. ![]()
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