Sitting on the Deck

“Is that call an owl or a dove?”

“An owl or a dog?”

“No, I said is it an owl or a dove?”

“You don’t know the difference between the sound an owl makes and the sound a dog makes?”

“I said, owl and dove, I didn’t say owl and dog.”

“Well speak up so I can hear you. I was beginning to wonder why you didn’t know the difference between an owl and a dog.”