Driving home from New Orleans

This is Sam. He's my co-pilot today. Normally he likes to sit on my
lap as we ride, but I've got another appointment before I get home and
don't want to be covered in dog hair when I get there. So I have to
put my computer bag between us to keep him from crawling over. He's
been giving me sad faces like this the entire trip though, so I'm not
sure I can keep this up.

Any ideas on what I should do?

~wj