Common Strangers

     I met this very Lovely French Woman for cocktails at this Italian Restaurant in Mid Town Manhattan this previous evening.  She has European Charm, she is funny and extremely intelligent....with a welcoming smile and gorgeous blue eyes.  She shared with me a story that I found too tempting not too share with the world...it rang with too many parallels in regards with incidents far too familiar to me.

*What is it with People and their fixation with rescuing animals or their Pets...some people are just not meant to have children of any sort*

Her Ex Beau (we are traveling beyond a decade) convinced her to go to an animal shelter...This Monsieur loves Cats (Ms Stephanie hates Cats, she does not trust them..she thinks they are conniving and mean, very untrustworthy companions)...with a persuasive plead his undesirable request besieged the bleeding heart strings of an impulsive and impressionable young woman...His Compelling Petition "this cat is a reincarnation of my dead uncle, he belongs with us!!!"
Her hopeless romantic side gave into her lovers insistence...they left together with the cat, his "uncle".
Fast forward three years...a lot can happen in three years.  People change physically, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.  A rift too deep to mend now exist between the mademoiselle and her monsieur...arguments are the norm, love is lost...
He opts out...it happens with couples whom are unable to rectify or mediate tumultuous relationship scars...its easy and cowardly to opt out, and the weak often find that as their easiest option to liberty.
"Keep the cat, its not my uncle"
Her man leaves her all alone with a kat she does not want...the "uncle" is still around, and Ms Stephanie still does not like cats...
She does what she always wanted to do, find a sap to take her pet and get what rings true to her heart...she loves dogs...meet Otis Redding, a cream colored Pug (choose Pugs not Hugs!).  Her cat now lives with her Mother...supposedly the cat understands French, I don't know about that but I'll take their world on that...C'est la vie!
Happy ending for the cat, Otis, the monsieur and the mademoiselle...i think!

Not too long ago I heard Dave McKinney's Story.  This Bikini Mogul from NYC falls for this stunning tall blonde from the woods of Long Island...her name is Faith.  With her long Locks and sleek legs she burrowed a path deep within David's heart...poor Dave, men are always idiotic when their hearts start making decisions.  The same can apply to women too.  Faith agrees to move in with David into his summer home in the Hamptons with some conditions (one of which)...involves rescuing two cats, a his and hers type of scenario.  What happens next?  Dave becomes the proud father of two kittens...He has never touched a cat prior to that?  Paradise lost, it takes them about three months living together to realize that personal unhappiness has weened its way into their domain...Dave comes home one day and finds Faith and her belongings...gone...
But she left her two little darlings.
I don't even know if she left a note...
I never had a sense of respect for cowards and their weasel like antics
Poor Dave, heart broken with two cats...
He is wondering if anyone wants a cat?
Sorry Dave, I have one of my own