The people who keep leaving their dog out on their porch to whine and moan and scratch at their door. We’ve just been playing music to drown the pitiful noises out, but luckily they’ve always brought it in before we go to bed. We want to get to know them a bit so we don’t feel like a-holes if we ever have to go over and tell them the dog’s misery is driving us batty (like the night I had a migraine).

Or, if they ever have a party like they did last summer where the dog was put out, I could just go over and borrow the animal to sit with in our driveway. I’ll bet if I was petting him, he’d shut up and let me read. 16 months ago