Today we went grocery shopping and, as usual, we brought our Service Dog, Shadeaux, who sat in the basket loving all of the attention he was getting from other shoppers.

As we rounded the pasta aisle a woman walked over to the cart and said, “Ooooh, he is absolutely adorable.”

“Aisle Seven,” I said. “They’re on sale.”

Five minutes later I was in the Frozen Food department, reaching for a bag of broccoli, when the woman tapped me on the shoulder.

“There were sold out,” she said, “but they gave me a Rain Check.”