It was Sandy's fault if you ask me.
Sandy came walking weirdly from his building towards us. Something looked awfully wrong.
Sandy who flaunted a soldier's walk was walking as if a soldier came back from a war post being shot in every possible part of his body.Also his arms were bandaged, so were his legs and some band-aid over his forehead.
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The first time i had seen Sandy with her was last year.
Unlike us, Sandy had come to Mumbai after he was posted here for a project by his IT firm. Hence Sandy had taken an apartment on lease till his stay in Mumbai.
The first time i had seen him with her, he was sitting at the rear end of our building. By his side was she.
Sandy was playing some soft song ( Probably the Titanic theme song)and the breeze was really cool and silent. It was some time post noon and it was really calm in our area.
Both of them were facing the open space near our colony sitting on the nearby short wall.( Like Di Caprio and Kate , standing at the edge of the ship)
They were facing the other side as i was approaching them.
I saw, she had her head over his lap. Sandy casually moved his hand over her head.....and slowly moved his hand down her spine
I approached the place calmly, seeing what was going on.
By this time Sandy's hand had settled in her stomach and he slid it slowly upwards and was playing with her nose.
Sandy then, bent a little and kissed her on her nose and she reciprocated the same. Sandy playfully wiped the saliva of hers, from his cheeks and tightened the grip of his hands over her and smoothly played with her hair.
I, dumbstruck, called out to check if it was really Sandy who was sitting there.
Hearing me, She got up in a jiffy and turned back,.....Yes it indeed was Dolly........
Dolly is Sandy's neighbor's Alsatian dog.
I am not a great fan of dogs. Sandy is mad about dogs. In fact he is crazy about dogs.
Last time when i had been to his house, i could see posters of a million dogs in his room.There was one photo of a street dog, which he said was his first pet in his hometown, i.e Lucknow. Also he had seven such frames of his pets at different times.Only reason he did not have a dog in this house was since the landlord had warned severely against pets.
There is no harm in having passion for dogs. Yes they are indeed loyal and playful at times.
But the problem with Sandy is he cannot resist passing comments on other's dogs as well. In fact he passes a comment on each and every dog which he comes across.
"Look this is Great dane...looks like a military personnel doesn't he"
"wow man !!, Look at her wag her tail, it is so cute"
" ooh My God. look at that Cherry pie( he never says "dog")...she reminds me of Marlyn Monroe" ( yes he says this....even though this makes us feel as if he is a bit off balance)
We keep warning him to keep his nonsense comments a bit low..but never he did.
Rax (thats me) : " Hey u look all dressed up for today " ( we all had planned to have our dinner out)
Sandy : Shut up man, i am not able to even walk.
Sarath: Good God! what the hell did you do?
Vinay: Did you try suicide after seeing yourself in mirror
( all had a hearty laugh here)
Sarath: Did you reveal to someone , you came from North?
Rax: Did you board the Ladies special train?
(Again a series of laughter here)
Sandy : Shut up you all....i am struggling in pain...( he said with an expression of disgust)
Sarath : So tell what the hell happened?
Sandy : Nothing much man......Yesterday i came early from office....so had taken Dolly for a walk down the street.
While i was crossing the signal, there was a young lady with two Dobermans, passing by.(name of a breed of dog- Also referred Police dog)
And believe me they looked so gorgeous. Especially the younger one.
Now Sandy saw us in turn, each one of us and then hung his face
The elder one was slowly gaining a growl on Dolly.
I did not notice it.I un-noticingly said "Wow She looks like Katrina".
The lady holding the dog, thought i said it to her. I dont know what differences she has with Katrina, she let loose both the dogs on us.
They started attacking Dolly and i tried to control the fight.The younger one....the beautiful one, bit me as if it was hungry for ages.And then the elder one joined as well...
( By this time we had gone mad laughing uncontrollably.....we all were rolling all over the road, holding our stomachs in laughter)
Shah Aunty (Sandy's neighbor) has said she will never let me take Dolly on rounds from now on.
(This increased our laughter even more)
After 10mins of uncontrollable laughter.
Rax: Actually you know Dogs do not like other dogs in their own territory.
So it must have got wild on you......not Dolly.
Another maniac laughter session started here.
Vinay: So Mr Katrina shall we leave if you are done with your "Dogmas"
We went all the way laughing and pulling his leg ...ooops it was injured beyond scope .....ok just teasing him.
