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:Ich fing an, eine lustige Geschichte zu schreiben, die ein wenig deftig sein würde – wenn Sie an deftiger Sprache Anstoß nehmen, schlage ich vor, dass Sie sich die Ohren zuhalten ... Ja, ich fing an, eine Geschichte zu schreiben, von der ich dachte, dass sie lustig werden würde. Sie driftete gegen Ende in diesen anderen Bereich...

First is: We're all in here together now and we're fairly safe, but later on you'll have to go to your cars and it will be dark and there are mad people in the city, we know that! It's just a fact of life and I don't want to scare you unduly … but there could be somebody in your backseat. It's not likely, but you'll admit that it is possible. And you wouldn't want to be driving home and look in your review-mirror and see somebody there, would you? So check! What does it hurt? It doesn't hurt to check. The other thing is: I'd like you to take a moment now before I begin reading this story to ask yourself one question: Did I leave the shower curtain open or closed? And if you feel that you left the shower curtain open and it's closed when you get back, I suggest you get out of your place in a hurry! Again, I don't want to scare you unduly, but these things have to be considered.

Muriel Grey is going to present some questions in the second half of this program – if I survive the first half without a cataclysmic heart-attack … it's always a possibility. We're always only an inch or two away, aren't we, from whatever's going to happen. I don't want to upset you with that or make you anxious, but it ''is'' just a fact. And she's got a list of questions and we're going to answer some of them, but the first question that I saw on her list is "Is horror all you write?" And the answer of course is: Not on purpose, it's just that things seem to drift that way after a while. And I had an idea for a story (this goes back about a year) about people and their pets. Somebody had said something to me – you know, ideas start when you least expect them – somebody said, "Have you ever noticed that people's pets grow to be like them as time goes by?" And it occurred to me that yes, that was true. People with sweet natures had sweet-natured pets and people with sort of bad tempers generally had dogs you had to mind your ankles. So I started to have an idea for a story about a marriage that was sort of in trouble and people who bought each other pets. And I thought to myself that if the pets started to like the wrong member of this partnership, that would be sort of funny. A lot of you'd be surprised how many of my stories start with the idea "That would be sort of funny!" I set out to write a funny story that would be rather rude – if rude language offends you, I suggest you cover your ears … Yeah, I set out to write a story that I thought would be funny. It sort of drifted toward this other area toward the end...

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