"Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs"
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The specificity does the cultural work. The corner, the book, the newspaper: props of deliberate self-containment, old-school even, like privacy as a practiced craft. Meanwhile Webster “runs around a little bit” before choosing the top of the picnic table, an almost comic image of opting out while still staying in the scene. They’re present but not participating, visible without being available. That’s a recognizable modern pose, especially in public spaces that subtly demand sociability: the park, the picnic, the small-talk ecology of other “little dogs.”
Subtext: Flockhart is gently refusing the idea that connection has to look like mingling. Her “we are very aloof” reads less like apology than self-identification, the candid admission of someone who knows the pressure to be approachable and is declining it with a shrug. There’s also a celebrity-adjacent undertone: for public figures, “aloof” is often the label used when “boundaries” would be more accurate. Putting it on the dog softens the confession, turns what could be read as guardedness into temperament.
The intent isn’t to seem edgy. It’s to normalize the quiet person’s version of belonging: being near, staying separate, letting that be enough.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Flockhart, Calista. (2026, January 15). Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/webster-and-i-are-very-aloof-the-two-of-us-go-and-140043/
Chicago Style
Flockhart, Calista. "Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/webster-and-i-are-very-aloof-the-two-of-us-go-and-140043/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/webster-and-i-are-very-aloof-the-two-of-us-go-and-140043/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
