Matthew McKeown
4 min readApr 2, 2021

You step off your bike and slide your gloves off. While you reach for your helmet strap, a dog waddles up to you. You reach down, give the pooch a couple of strokes, and remove your helmet. You start walking to the shop door and are escorted by your new four-legged friend. The dog walks you up to the counter where you speak with the shop manager about the work that you have scheduled for your machine. You hand the keys over and the dog exits with the shop manager to the shop.