etho says oh fine let's see YOU do a better job, huh! and bdubs says what like you want me to treat you like... my parrot? (etho: you had a parrot?) no horses aren't the same etho, don't even pretend with me like that. unless you're wanting me to make you run laps. so i can die of dehydration, etho says, as revenge. oh my god do you want me to treat you like the little idiots downstairs, then? if you do this you can boss me around, etho says, super sly and not at all subtle. bdubs doesn't need a reason to but the thing is how is he supposed to pass it up when handed to him on a silver platter. it actually goes shockingly well for a while with bdubs giving simple commands wrapped in light praise/insults (maybe you can teach stupid!) but he has to make etho wait. as revenge you know. so he tells etho to sit or heel or lie down or something while he works and he does kind of get absorbed in it but he's good about checking and keeping etho in line of sight - because he is responsible unlike some people - and etho actually dozes off and starts snoring really really really softly and it is so unfathomably cute that bdubs can't even bring himself to wake etho up and he ends up falling asleep in his chair at his desk too. etho mocks him mercilessly when he wakes up first which completely ruins any chance at continuing the scene and they still don't have sex about it.