I'm not Benjamin

I've decided that George has made it his goal in life to confuse the living hell out of me. He denies this of course. I know I'm right though.

When we first met, he nicknamed me "Mister". I've gone over the reason for that in this post. I told him I was not going to answer to "Mister" but evenually I did.

Then he started calling me "Julio". Steve No Habla Espanol George. That one didn't stick.

Then he started calling me "Maximiliano". Still no habla espanol, and I think he got tired of saying it anyway so it didn't stick either.

Next came Steve. There were actually probably a few others in between Maximiliano and Steve, but I can't remember all of them. Suffice it to say that Steve stuck. I kept saying I would never answer to it either but he wore me down. It was easier to answer to it than to pretend I can't hear him and truthfully sometimes I would answer before I realized I had even opened my mouth.  I resigned myself to the name.

Then he started calling me Jim. This is for no other reason than torture. See......Jim is someone George knows from the past that creeps me the hell out. Everytime we see him I do everything I can to avoid him hoping he won't see us. It's not just me either. George's ex said the same thing about Jim. He's just weird and he looks exactly like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes.

Jim looks exactly like this only grayer

I'm convinced this is Jim as well. George says it's his brother.

No matter what, I flat refuse to answer to Jim and for the most part I hit George when he calls me that. No court in the land would convict me for abuse either so don't even think about using this statement against me George. They will convict YOU for torturing me. Believe THAT!

So anyway, here lately George has taken to calling me "Benjamin". Sometimes even "Benjamin Franklin".  Why? Who the hell knows? I still don't think George knows why he keeps renaming me except that it cracks him up to see the expression I make when he calls me something new. Make no mistake, he gets a big kick out of annoying me. Hence the reason he often really does get kicked. (again, no court would convict me. They would only wonder how I restrained myself from leaving bruises!)

I'm not answering to Benjamin! It's not sticking this time and here's why. See the name of the blog? George and Benjamin's excellent adventures does not have the same flow that George and steve's Excellent adventures does. Plus it takes a full 2 seconds longer to type benjamin. Sure I could shorten it to Benji, but that was a really ugly dog and a super stupid movie. So we aren't going there. So deal with it George, I'm not Benjamin. I'm Steve. Well, wait, I'm really not Steve either but, oh hell, you get the point.

On the upside, as much as he likes to rename me and confuse me, I loves my George immensely. I'm going to keep him and love him and drink warm cocoa with him lol. The way I see it, when he's old and senile, it won't matter that he won't remember my name, it'll be just like normal! Well....normal for us anyway.


Benjamin
Benji

"Steve"