There was a man who lived on the upper east side of New York, who fell in love with a woman who would walk her dog near his apartment building. Many times he would be on the verge of speaking to her but at the last moment he would turn away, or change his mind. He composed in his mind several sentences about her dog, that would start a conversation but in the end he would think to himself, “I’m not really interested in the dog and so, if I start a conversation with her in that way it will all be false.”
Such scruples were quite all right and wouldn’t have mattered except that a year and a half had gone by since he first saw her and things had reached such a point that he avoided other relationships because of the mysterious woman with her dog.
Finally he decided to do something drastic. He decided to buy a dog himself, and then start a conversation with her about the dogs. The desperate point he had reached can be seen by the extreme measure he proposed to himself. He went to the pet store and went through all the motions of buying a dog, he was even writing out the check when he turned around abruptly and walked out of the store without a word.
He went straight home, sat down next to his window and made a vow to himself to forget all about the woman with her dog, but the phone rang and it was his good friend Oscar. Oscar said, “I just this afternoon bought a dog, and now I find I have to go out West for a week, could I impose on you to watch him for me, he’s not much trouble.” What happened then you can well imagine!
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