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Here’s how it’s supposed to work at the vet’s office. You make an appointment, show up at the correct time, call from the parking lot, and they comes out to get your pet. Walk-ins are strictly prohibited.
I follow the rules because that’s just the sort of dude I am. But here’s the thing, the best stories happen when people don’t follow the rules.
Cue the inciting incident.
“Oh great, someone just blocked you in,” Maya says.
Maya is the friendly vet tech who squeezed us in last-minute because Mortimer got two foxtails lodged in his paw. The vet removed the foxtails, cleaned and bandaged the wound, and gave Mortimer the good drugs.
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