Call it a hunch but I think Rudolf is afraid of sharks, or maybe he is just afraid of horror movies, or both, who knows?

It was two days ago; Lisa and I were watching the latest shark movie “Ghost Shark Panorama” that we had heard so much about. We started in the middle by the way because we had already seen the first half but the dvd had stopped when it got to the scratch marks and Lisa had to go and buy another copy. Needless to say, she thought it was best if she inserted the disc inside the dvd player without my help this time while I waited in the car. Yes, the doors were locked and the house alarm was on but that doesn’t mean that I couldn’t see her through the passenger side window which, incidentally, faced the one-piece living room glass that was replaced only a month ago, I guess it had something to do with my big red rubber ball; I’m not quite sure.

Once she was done fiddling with the disc and what not, she let me in and we started watching the rest of the movie. Then suddenly Rudolf went berserk; he started barking and howling like it was the end of the World… or like he could sense a tremendous bone shortage that was just around the corner and as if the discovery of his precognitive talents was extremely overwhelming in a sad and scary way. But when the shark showed up to eat the rest of the actors, not for real of course, they’re all pretending, shark included; although it’s nothing but a visual fakeness personified by the help of an expensive computer program, it’s so realistic that it manages to be as unrealistic as all the other actors in the film…

Uh? Where was I? Oh yes, when the shark showed up Rudolf went quiet and left the room. He stayed in the kitchen until the credits. When he came back I thought to myself “What a day”.