Being home at my folks’ house for the holidays this year made me think of this story, from the holidays several years ago. It’s a fun memory for me because it’s a time when I was single and trying to just have as much sex as possible — and because it’s an example of me being able to carry out a plan to get *exactly* what I had wanted, as opposed to a lot of my younger-self sex memories, where things just unfolded in fortunate directions.
A few years back, when I was single and in my late 20s, I got my dog, Bruce. I went over Christmas to the city where my parents live several hours from the city I lived in at the time. They lived in a suburb that was mostly single family homes, families with young kids and a few retirees. But their community also had some apartments and condos, and, what I was most looking forward to with Bruce, a great dog park.