Meet Fred

Hello, everyone, meet Fred.  He's the one with the tail, and with the insufferable smile on his face.
The other one is me.  I am apparently Fred's only pastime.  And if I can't learn to laugh at my own problems then I've got another problem which really doesn't solve anything at all, so I'm learning to laugh at Fred; maybe some of you others out there can relate because you have your own Fred, and if so then you can laugh with me.  So here we go.
(Also I don't draw crocodiles, folks.  This is the first one I've done in probably ten years.)