Phil, Diane & The Errant Cat . . .

Diane came home to find the back door wide open when it should have been closed and locked. Luckily, it wasn’t a burglary. The housekeeper had come, gone and failed to pull the door shut. Diane’s beloved Smokey, an indoor cat, was nowhere to be seen. After unsuccessfully combing the neighborhood, Diane tearfully called Phil at work. Although he was under a deadline to finish a pitch for an advertising campaign, he dropped everything and came home AFTER he took time to prepare and duplicate lost-cat posters. He was pretty sure Smokey would show up on their doorstep after a night of being cold and hungry, but he had the good sense to keep that to himself. Instead of dismissing her worry as irrational or an over-reaction, he jumped right in to help Diane find her cat. As he was leaving to go hang posters, Phil spotted Smokey darting behind a neighbor’s backyard shed. After twenty minutes of coaxing, Smokey finally came within reach. Phil lunged, grabbed the errant cat, and delivered it safely into Diane’s arms. Phil was Diane’s hero! Not only did she give him a truckload of Frequent Foreplay Miles, ut he got some pretty good lovin’ too!

What I love most about this story is how Phil put Sharon and her feelings ahead of everything else, een though he secretly thought her level of concern was unwarranted. I’m certain Phil was tempted to respond to Diane’s call by telling her he was under the gun, to stopworrying, and he’d see her later. But he didn’t. And that’s why he deserved a truckload of Frequent Foreplay Miles.