When Was The Last Time Anyone Walked the Dog?

This morning I am frustrated, angry and a bit surprised.  This is a picture of my new dog leash.  This morning I got up with our usual before school routine.  When the time came to take my dog Casey out to potty, I looked around  but couldn't find   Jay my 15 year old son was supposed to have taken the dog out for me last night and this morning before he went to school.  He didn't put the one leash we have any of the usual places where I can find it.  I looked all over and immediately began to panic.

Of course, I had not eaten yet so I haven't taken my Adderall and my anti- anxiety medications yet.  Before you know it I'm in full panic mode and texting him furiously and repeatedly.  My mind was blown when he admits to me that he didn't take Casey out last night or this morning, and in fact he
"cannot remember" when he has taken her out last.  OK-- now I'm past panicked because you know it is hard for Moms like me to think outside of the normal safe repetitive routine.  Finally, after taking Jordan (my 6 years old)  to the bus to the bus stop, and running for the bust (we were late) as usual, I knew the poor dog was in full panic mode too, because she is running back and forth to the front and the back door really fast.  

I knew I had to do SOMETHING, so I tried my hardest to be creative and stifle my panic mode.
I started to wonder why I had never  bought another leash and then remembered that I was  both too cheap and too forgetful to think of such a thing.  I refuse to go to the store to buy another leash because the poor dog won't last that long, and we will just loose it/ forget where we put it anyway.   I went to the garage and this is what I found.  After a few bulky and incorrect sailor knots, I had a solution of sorts.  Imagine the looks I got walking my poor ghetto fab dog with this tied around her neck.  I was embarrassed for the dog, but not myself.  Besides, my neighbors need to understand that we are a bit weird if they are going to be around us.  Most have already figured it out.  

Just another typical day.  By the way, I also have lost my tennis shoes.  Does anybody know where I may have put them?    Oh well that will be the next post.  Has anyone else ever had this happen to them?