Well, if you're curious, it wasn't THAT bad--
Now, I realize we got lucky in here in Marquette, and that areas to the west of us got hammered, but right by the lake it did kind of fizzle out. And seeing as how it's now officially Spring...
We'll take it.
Okay. No more talk about snowstorms for the next nine months (or, knowing our luck, the next nine days). Now that it IS Spring, and this is gonna be happening more, I need to vent upon something that seems to have gotten increasingly bad the past few years.
And it only goes to prove some people are ---holes.
I went running Saturday 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, and it's the remaining five percent, who don't believe the city's pet laws don't apply to them, that spoil it for everyone else?
Saturday morning goes to prove it.
8-(
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