Our Parallel Couple

Now that Mr. D has completed training and is working a regular schedule, he has been getting home in the late afternoon. It is a perfect time to take a nice walk in the neighborhood. By that time, Grace and I are itching to go outside, so we all pack up and take a walk.

We go between 3 and 4 in the afternoon. Dad, mom, baby and two dogs. A somewhat unusual time in our neck of the woods for the whole family to be home and out walking. What's even more strange to me is that there is another family like us out there. We have passed them three times this week. There's dad, mom, baby, and two dogs. Their baby is smaller and mom wears her in a Baby Bjorn. But besides that, the similarities are eerie!

We are always going opposite directions. We smile and say hi, but keep walking. Today, Mr. D asked how much their large dog weighed. 120 lbs., if you were wondering.

Today I got to thinking, we should be friends with these people. We obviously both have small babies, close families that like to walk together, dogs, we live in the same neighborhood even. But perhaps the similarities stop there. Perhaps they aren't social, or are boring, or can only talk about golf and the opera.

Or maybe, they are really funny, like to play Taboo and Pictionary, eat pizza and watch Survivor.

I wonder if I'll ever know.