Imagine for a second that you are young and in love. It's early in the relationship, so you actually want to spend every waking second together. One Saturday night, you stay up the whole night talking. And imagine that on this particular Saturday night, actually very early on Sunday morning, you are sitting on your balcony with your significant other, and someone wearing nothing but boxer shorts and a polo shirt with a popped collar walks by, being dragged by a dog who seems to be on a mission. What would you think? You would probably assume that the dog had to go to the bathroom. But why no pants? Why a polo shirt? Why a popped collar on that polo shirt? Is there a local pervert around? Should the police be called? What could have possibly precipitated this odd sight before you?
Allow me to explain one possible scenario: Perhaps the person in question was awakened from a deep slumber by the sound of a barking dog. After a quick inspection, the bleary-eyed person realizes that his own dog in not in the bed with him, and that his dog must have gone downstairs and started barking. After stumbling down the stairs to determine the reason for the barking, he would probably see that his dog is sitting by the door and deduce that he needs to go out. Too lazy and tired to go back upstairs to put clothes on, the poor sleeper decides that just a shirt will do and grabs one off of the pile of laundry he brought downstairs earlier that day, but had yet to wash. The shirt happens to be a polo shirt, but since it's 3:45 in the morning it wouldn't really matter, because all he really needed was something to cover his torso. In the midst of putting the shirt on, the collar was pulled up into a "popped" position. Despite years of making fun of douchebags who pop their collars, the guy was probably much too tired to notice or even care at this ungodly hour. "Besides", he may have thought, "who is even going to see me?"
Upon putting the leash on his dog and going outside, his dog probably decided that he couldn't make it easy on his owner and go to the bathroom right outside the door. No, it's likely that this dog knew precisely where he wanted to pee, and that spot happened to be roughly 100 yards from the owner's back door. The poor owner was probably powerless against his determined bulldog, and simply followed him to the chosen spot. And it would be on the way to that spot where the owner would notice two people sitting on their balcony, staring at the odd sight before them. It probably crossed their minds that only weirdos come out at night. But I would hope that they took a second to think that perhaps there was a completely plausible explanation for everything before them, and not to judge the person, but to pity him, because it could happen to anyone.
