My wife and I meet lots of people when we do our daily visit to the cat colony. Often we merely exchange pleasantries, other times we chat a little more about the weather, the cats in the colony, their cats or dogs, or the state of the world. Some of these encounters were one-off events. Others, became more regular events and we would look forward to interacting with them. We first met Conrad and Ivy this way: a chance encounter. He was either walking Ivy or sharing a park bench with her on a pleasant evening after their walk, I…