Friday, March 28, 2008 | by nathan

Sam Fridays: Wherein Sam Has A Showdown With A Grocery Bag… And Loses

Last night Brian went to the store to get us something to make for dinner. It was incredibly sweet of him to do that, as I was feeling pretty tired. When he got home he unloaded all the groceries then put the paper bag on the floor. Then, this happened:

Because Sam? He’s not that bright, and so the bag pretty much won. Brian and I would’ve helped him out of this jam - seriously, we really would’ve - but we were just so damn busy laughing at the hilarity of it all. By the time I regained myself, having snapped a few photos in the process, Sam had extricated himself from the bag. I knelt down on the floor and called him over to me, but he really wasn’t interested in being my friend all of a sudden:

THBPHTHHHHH!

After a few minutes Sam forgave me, and he and I sat on the floor together, him getting some serious love. You’ve just got to love a dog that can’t free himself from a simple paper bag. I’ll tell you, though, when I called him over to me he made damn sure not to go ANYWHERE near that bag. Honest to God, it took him a full 60 seconds just to cross the kitchen to get to me. All this wore him out:

So he thought he’d go see what was for dinner. Or, to be more precise, to see what was for our dinner. As if we’d give him any:

Still, you’ve got to hand it to him: he never gives up hope.