"I'm so sorry about this.."

"..very very sorry about my dog, he's always like this. The leashes are tangled! Say, lunch on Saturday?"

Okay, maybe there is a lot more that goes before that last line. This is an age old secret no one ever told me about! Or at least I haven't paid too much attention to it before. Dogs are really different from humans in that no matter how big or small, they'll run at each other and start barking to the dismay of two leash-pulling owners. (People aren't like that, except for an awesome few who give you a smile whether they know you or not.) Sometimes the dogs go at each other; sometimes they go straight for the other guy; it's a hilarious fiasco to watch. I'll admit that it opens up the chance for conversation. They don't even have to go up to someone and say, "hey, nice dog!" -- the dog does the talking for them! But the baffling thing is, once they start talking, they become completely oblivious to their two gigantic dogs scrambling around.