It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times.
Yeah, I know that's been used as an
opening line before, and by a writer much better than I, but it
seemed appropriate after what I went through this morning. Like I
mentioned yesterday, it's one of those weird times of the year—you
can't bike yet, and the ski trails are deteriorating past the point
where I want to tempt fate. So that leaves me one thing to do if I
want to aerobically exercise—run.
And I've been doing a lot of that
recently.
The only reason I mention that is that
I went running again this morning, and within a half mile—the span
of four or so minutes—I had the same thing happen to me twice, but
with radically different results. The first occurred at Shiras Park.
As I was running though, an unleashed dog jumped on me, and almost
knocked me down. The dog's owner showed up a few seconds later, and
when I tried to (politely) remind him about the city's leash law, he
just gave me the finger.
Yes, I know you think your dog is more
important than the humans who pay taxes to maintain the bike path
upon which it was running unleashed. Whatever.
A few minutes later, I was at McCarty's
Cove when another unleashed dog came bounding toward me. In this
instance, though, I wasn't almost knocked down, and the woman to whom
the dog belonged came over, leash in hand, and apologized to me. Her
dog had jumped out of the car before she had the chance to leash him,
and she hoped that the dog didn't startle me. I assured her all was
okay, and continued along up the bike path.
I know I write about this topic way too
much, and I'm not gonna say anything more about it except this—you
know how I always say that 95% of Marquette dog owners are great
people who respect their fellow residents, and it's the remaining
five percent, who don't believe the city's pet laws apply to them,
that spoil it for everyone else?
That's what I'm talking about.
*****
I don't know how this happened, but it
looks like I have a busy day in front of me tomorrow. In the morning
I'll be giving a tour to an NMU class looking for the history of
Marquette's lake shore, while in the afternoon I'll be doing a live
broadcast at Art Van. I'm really gonna have to have a talk with the
person who schedules me to do all these things on the same day.
Oh, wait...
8-)
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