Joe bought a box of chocolates for Iris. Just before he left to meet her, he met his brother, Owen, who said, "You're going out with the librarian again, are you?"
   "Iris, yeah."
   "What are ye going to do? Play bridge for the evening?"
   "We're going to the theatre."
   "Going to the theatre with a librarian. Ye might as well be playing bridge."
   Owen put on his best suit and went to a bar, where he met a very tall woman in a black dress.
   Joe knocked on Iris's door and gave her the chocolates. "They're just the ones I like," she said. "Thanks."
   "You're welcome... I lost my tie in the woods."
   "Oh?"
   "Yeah." He nodded.
   Owen asked the woman he met in the bar if she'd like a glass of champagne. "Okay," she said. "Just the one."
   He woke up in the morning in a hotel where a women's basketball team were staying, in a room with all of that basketball team. An ostrich was there too.
   One of the women said to him, "Would you mind taking the ostrich home?"
   "Yes, of course."
   "I think his name is Gilbert."
   He couldn't remember how they got the ostrich, so he had no idea where Gilbert's home was. He went to a bar, hoping a drink would clear his head, but he had to leave when someone tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, but your ostrich is trying to take that man's umbrella."
   He managed to get Gilbert outside. They walked through the park, where they met Joe and Iris, who were eating ice cream cones by the lake.
   Owen told them what happened and Joe said, "There's a lesson to be learnt in this. If you..."
   "Attack, Gilbert. Attack!" Owen said as he pointed at his brother, but the ostrich just looked back at him. "Come on, Gilbert." He walked away, and Gilbert followed.