The Taxi Driver with the Shiba Inu

I love where I live! 

First, some background before the story.  Outside the main gate where I work is a taxi stand.  Usually there are four or five taxis waiting.  The drivers talk to each other and smoke cigarettes or sit in their cars reading the newspaper or poking at their phones. When I walk by they always smile and wave and we exchange greetings.  

Yesterday morning I was out for a walk and a small elderly man with a big smile on his face and a dog came running across a parking lot toward me.  I was the only person on the sidewalk so I knew he was coming to me.  He pointed to me and said Hitachi. He said he is now retired but was a taxi driver and remembered seeing me go to work. He told me where he lives, which is close to where I live and we talked about his cute little Shiba Inu.  He told me the dog is four years old. In English he told me "Japanese Dog".

This little encounter made my day.  People here are so friendly and so kind.  

This is a photo of a shiba inu I found on the internet, but it looks like the taxi driver's dog.