Excerpt from mail sent in 1999:
At the ATM, two people ahead of me in line were talking. They were talking about the difficulty of convincing their dogs not to eat sheetrock. One of them got into the habit of spraying his sheetrock with pepperspray. The other dog owner shook his head. His dog had acquired a taste for pepperspray.
I squinted at his dog, trying to determine if it was perhaps a goat in disguise.