If you really want to win friends, forget Dale Carnegie

Instead, get a dog

Me with a collie in Indiana — picture courtesy of Sam Mahmoud

Last night I was walking my dog Snowy. As we passed a neighbor’s house, their door opened. He ran towards them, fully intent on entering their house. When I apologized, they just laughed.

“We like dogs,” they told me. They then proceeded to coo over him as he did the puppy bow on their lawn, rump raised and tail…