Close encounters of the Four-legged kind

The pile of sand that also doubles up as bed for my acquaintance was unoccupied yesterday. My acquaintance is a cow. She acknowledges my arrival every day or every night rather, by nodding her head. Guess she thought I was a nice guy who waits for his dad when three fourth of the city is asleep. The other one fourth is made up of call center employees, she once told me. Ok, she didn’t tell me. I made it up. Something irked me when I didn’t see her yesterday. Guess I missed her. But hold on people, here comes the star of the night. She emerged from the mythical darkness into the famed Chennai Corporation Street light. She looked like Julia Roberts under the spotlight. In fact she looked a lot better than that. But something was not all right. Her gait said that there is something wrong with her hind limbs. She was limping her way to her bed. A small part of my heart went numb.