Little things that make you smile...

[Daffyd]

@monica

My dog greeting me at the door with a huge grin on her face (I’m not kidding- dogs can smile. It’s kinda like an upturned-mouth, bared teeth sort of thing). I’d take a picture to show you, but she’s normally constantly in motion while she’s doing this, so it’s a bit hard to do. Plus, I most often get the look when I’ve been gone off at college for a while, so she’s normally giving it while hurling herself joyously at me.

My dog smiles too! There is something really wonderful about your dog being SO excited to see you - even after you’ve been gone for half an hour… It gets me every time!

The other thing that makes my life a joy is taking my other dog out for a walk… Last year at Thanksgiving, she suddenly lost the ability to use her back legs - we were told it was Myasthenia Gravis - and that it would probably get worse and worse til she died… We were actually discussing putting her to sleep before it got too bad for her…

But after finding some information online, we convinced our vet to try a drug meant for children with the disease, (and were told not to get our hopes up…) and within a week she was up and walking again…

Every time we go for a walk, and I see her joyfully bouncing around, I get so happy I almost cry…

[Savannah]

@romansperson

I always smile when I see a dog riding in a car with its head out the window. They always look so happy! Wish something as simple as having the wind in my face made me feel that good.

Mine is when dogs waiting in a vehicle move over and sit in the driver’s seat. They just look so right there, even though dogs can’t drive. (That we know of. Maybe they can, and it’s a big canine secret.) Seeing a nice happy looking lab or golden, sitting in the driver’s seat, looking out the window… Always makes me smile.

Bonus points for a paw on the wheel.

[purple_haze]

Payday!

[Hostile_Dialect]

In high school I took a paper I’d written from the previous semester about World War II-era Japanese imperialism, replaced the words “Japan” with “Rome”, “plane” with “phalanx” etc. and turned it in for an assignment about Caesar. My goal was to see if the teacher would just mark it as an A without reading it (as I hadn’t bothered to do the actual assignment). I couldn’t keep a straight face while I turned it in, and after repeated questioning I told the teacher what I’d done. She gave me an extension to write the paper that was actually assigned. Sweet!

[Marley23]

@Matthew1

Yeah, this is nothing important but today I was working on a paper about Huck Finn and the social satire involved, and I happened to spell stuff wrong and wrote “the king and the duck” instead of the “king and the duke”…

In college, I had a video-game addicted friend who wrote a lengthy paper about Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Upon completing it, he realized he’d substituted the name of a video game character for “Tess” throughout the paper.

Me? I’m smiling because not only did I do stand-up comedy at another open mic night tonight, I did a bit that improved by a great deal when I included a story I found on the SDMB in the opening.

[Sublight]

While proofreading my contribution to recent thread about weddings, I realized I’d made a couple of typos:

“For a couple to marred, they just have to sing at the city hall.”