Of Man and his friend

A long time ago ,I remember my aunt describing to me a scene she had witnessed on her way back home from her workplace.

She was travelling on a bus back home,when the bus had stopped in traffic.The bus happened to be standing right next to the walkway alongside.This afforded my aunt,who was sitting near the window , a good view of the scene outside.She noticed a rather plump lady walking her dog on the street outside.The street was an unpaved and muddy path. Now, those of you who have been a bit observant may have realized that ‘walking’ the dog is just the correct way of saying that you’re taking your dog out to answer nature’s call. As my aunt looked outside, she saw the dog restlessly sniffing the ground and straining his leash. The dog was agitatedly sniffing around looking for something. As he was doing this, his owner kept pulling him in the opposite direction.While pulling the dog ,the lady kept saying to the dog,“Come here Come here, its not dirty here”. As my aunt came to realize after sometime, the street outside was a regular ‘walking’ spot for the dog. Also, every time the dog came here, he always sniffed around till he found a spot on which he had not ‘walked over’ previously and set out to work ,walking all over it.

Darn dog! I thought,when i heard this story.Comes here everyday and uses the heightened of smell he has to find a clean spot so that he can now make it dirty!

With this thought of the dogs stupidity, this story left my conscious mind and was buried deep in there for a couple of years till a funny coincidence brought it up.

I happened to be staying in a dormitory where we had a bathing area at the intersection of two corridors. This bathing area consisted of a four bathrooms built in a manner such that two of them faced the other two.Out of these four bathrooms; because of reasons like a better water flow or more sunlight, I happened to be regularly bathing in just two of those bathrooms.One of these two regular bathrooms is closer to the entrance than the other.One evening I was in a hurry as I went for a bath, so I automatically looked in the bathroom closer to the entrance to see if i felt like having a bath there. On looking in ,I found that someone had just taken a bath there, the floor was wet, water droplets were splashed all along the wall and the bathroom felt a bit warmer too. Immediately, I turned and took a look into my other regular bathroom. To my delight, I found it completely dry, no smell, no water splashed anywhere, nothing. Perfect, I thought.

That’s when it hit me, I had just behaved exactly as the dog i had darned. The poor dog whom i had declared stupid, had he been standing here would have cried ‘Hypocrite! Hypocrite!’. Though my situation wasn't completely the same as that of the dog’s(It wasn't me who had dirtied the first bathroom!).It was too similar for me to pass it by. I too had searched for a clean spot so that I could make it dirty!