Birthday Gift for My Dog

“My friend was SO excited for my birthday gift… and it turned out to be for my dog.”

Part 1 I’m 36F. My friend — also 36M — was over the moon about a birthday

gift he got me. He kept hyping it up, saying I’d “absolutely love it.”

Fast forward to my birthday… and he gives me sound-proof earmuffs for my dog.

My dog is a chihuahua. A tiny chaos gremlin who destroys literally everything she can get her teeth on.

He knows this. And from the moment I opened the box, I knew exactly what would happen: she

would shred these $60 earmuffs in 4 seconds. I thanked him. I told him I appreciated

the thought. But I also told him — politely — that I’d tried stuff like this before