Good People Love Dogs

This is how it is:
Good people love dogs.
Bad people kick dogs.
If a person seems bad until they love a dog, you’re dealing with a flawed character.
If a person seems good until they kick a dog, you’re dealing with a maniac.

I was watching As Good As It Gets this morning. I’ve seen it several times because it’s Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and a good solid script. If you don’t like Nicholson we can’t discuss movies, if you don’t like Helen Hunt I understand your point but politely disagree, if you don’t like well written drama we can’t be friends. Sorry. Anyway, the things I just wrote are things I already knew, things that everybody knows intuitively; they’re so true that they’ve become cliché. It’s programmed into people, even ones who don’t like or own dogs, even ones who are deathly and irrationally afraid of dogs, I bet it’s even programmed into cosmetics scientists who do horrible experiments of dogs without blinking an eye. Those people’s hearts melt when Jack Nicholson tells that little rat dog that he’s perfect just the way he is.