"Love is a Fallacy by Max Schulman"

I was a cool, logical, keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute,astute and this person with lot of things in his mind!And I was just eighteen then.

I had this roommate named Petey in our university. An emotional , unstable and impressionable guy which I saw lying in his bed one afternoon with such distress on his face. I taught he was just suffering from appendicitis but I come to think that he might have been a mental problem when he mumbled that he wanted a raccoon coat. I asked him why he wanted some of it knowing that they smell awful and weigh too much and he answered me that the “Big Mens” in school are wearing them. He must have been jealous with these guys but when he interrupted me quickly, I realized that he really wants a raccoon coat.

This idea came up into my mind then. I remember,my father had one in his undergraduate days; it lay now in a trunk in the attic back home. But it also came up into my mind that it also happened that Petey had something I also wanted and that is Polly Espy, the girl I wanted . Petey didn't own her exactly for Polly wasn't his girlfriend but at least he had first rights on her. So I went home for a weekend then after my conversation with Petey, trying to do better than lending him some money to buy a raccoon coat and at the same time trying to make a deal with him.

I returned to the campus the next Monday morning bringing the raccoon coat of my father. Petey was so happy to see the raccoon coat. So I told him about the deal I'm planning and that is he'll only have it when he allows Polly and me to go on a date and he agreed with it.

I had my first date with Polly the following evening. I wanted to know how much efforts will I do to make up the standard mind I required for my future wife but..She had a lack of information.On our next date, we had a logic talked. But its sad when we have to end our conversation because it was really already late and I have to take her back to the dormitory.

On our next dates, I concluded now that Polly fits to be my wife. She really made me impressed about the last fallacy we discussed. And it does shows that she is really attentive in it.

I decided to tell Polly everything and what I really fell for her. And that right time came. I told her that I fell in love with her even just for five span of nights that we've been together but she answered me that it was all a fallacy. A Hasty Generalization, a false analogy, Ad Misericordiam and all those fallacies we talked about. And she told me that she will not go steady with me but instead to Petey. I was really disappointed and angry. I once again asked her why she chose Petey over me and asked her for a logical reason. She then told me that “Petey had a raccoon coat”.