I like running. I particularly love running at a nearby lake we call the "Old Mill" (for the Gone With the Wind fans, it's the very same mill you see in the opening of the movie). Unfortunately, a lot of people like running and walking around the lake so one morning I decided to get up before dawn and get a good, quiet run in.
Sure enough, there was nobody there so I began my run while enjoying the wooded surroundings and watching the early morning mist roll over the lake... then I see it. Oh snap! A chow! You see, chows don't like me and I don't like chows. It was big, fluffy and full of teeth and he was about a hundred yards up the path staring at me. I stop and we stare at each other for a few moments - then he charges!
I jump off the trail in the woods next to the lake shore and grab a stick. Great. A rotted one. Ah, but then I see a nice, solid limb laying there amidst the pine needles. I quickly grab it and leap back on the path, crouching and ready to swing... Ah-ha!
But to my surprise there's no chow there. Instead, there's a girl who was running up from that direction right in front of me. She stopped in mid stride and looked at me with alarmed eyes.
"Um... *blushing* did you, um, see a dog?"
"Uh, no", she says.
I'm looking around hoping the dog shows up now so I don't look a mugger ambushing young ladies running around the lake!
"Wait, don't I know you", she asks.
You. Have. To. Be. Kidding. Yep, I recognized her as well - I worked with her.
"Well," awkwardly she begins, "I have to get going so I can shower before work. Nice, uh, 'running into you' like this..."
Yep. Same. Not!
Of course I then start running into her around the office after that, though strangely, she kept her distance from me...
P.S.
I never did see that chow again.
Sure enough, there was nobody there so I began my run while enjoying the wooded surroundings and watching the early morning mist roll over the lake... then I see it. Oh snap! A chow! You see, chows don't like me and I don't like chows. It was big, fluffy and full of teeth and he was about a hundred yards up the path staring at me. I stop and we stare at each other for a few moments - then he charges!
I jump off the trail in the woods next to the lake shore and grab a stick. Great. A rotted one. Ah, but then I see a nice, solid limb laying there amidst the pine needles. I quickly grab it and leap back on the path, crouching and ready to swing... Ah-ha!
But to my surprise there's no chow there. Instead, there's a girl who was running up from that direction right in front of me. She stopped in mid stride and looked at me with alarmed eyes.
"Um... *blushing* did you, um, see a dog?"
"Uh, no", she says.
I'm looking around hoping the dog shows up now so I don't look a mugger ambushing young ladies running around the lake!
"Wait, don't I know you", she asks.
You. Have. To. Be. Kidding. Yep, I recognized her as well - I worked with her.
"Well," awkwardly she begins, "I have to get going so I can shower before work. Nice, uh, 'running into you' like this..."
Yep. Same. Not!
Of course I then start running into her around the office after that, though strangely, she kept her distance from me...
P.S.
I never did see that chow again.
