Here's something that made me smile yesterday. I hope I will not be punished, even in a loving way, for posting it (sheesh I am in a weird mood but happy)
Okay here it is. Yesterday, I got to pet an old pit bull on the sidewalk. She was black with a greying muzzle. I patted her hard, muscular, beefy sides and she wiggled with happiness and then dropped to the ground and rolled on her back and I dropped to the ground too, squatting there in my skirt and heels so I could have good leverage to really rub her scruffy old belly. She twisted and kicked with joy and gave me a big toothy grin and her tongue lolled out of the side of her mouth, and she kept her eyes on me, every second.
I was definitely smiling. How can you not smile back, when a dog gives you that happy grin. "She really likes you," said the two old people who owned her and were sitting on a bench outside the toney deli where I got my salad. I felt all rejuvenated, like I'd had a shot of ginseng or something. And when I looked back, she was wistfully following me with her eyes, and the two old people were still laughing.
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