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Almost all of my time at home and the majority of it elsewhere involves sitting. I spend hours and hours in front of a computer or television because I haven't ever really enjoyed exerting myself physically, probably because I never had any hand-eye coordination.
Yet, against all odds, I am a decent sprinter. Now, I obviously don't have the stamina of an athelete, but when given a reason to run I am considderable faster than anyone I know.

Today's story is about the last decent adrenaline surge I got.

One day in a warmer time of the year my friend had come over to visit but was out on the front porch smoking his death stick cigarettes. He left the door open so one of my dogs decided to break for it and taste the sweet air of freedom so she could run around the block or something. Well, I went outside in my socks to try and coax her back inside and my friend tried to help but he misinterpretted what I was doing and kept trying to catch the dog.
After awhile she just took off and he ran after her. I decided what the hell, I'd show that dog that she can't do that.
I didn't want to dirty up my socks and I figured that I would run faster barefoot anyway.
Once I started running the dog and my friend were a considderable distance up the block but on this rare occasion everything was right for me to run properly. Near the end of the block I managed to pass my friend and get even with the dog but there were weeds at the end of the block I didn't want to run through so I had to go along the sidewalk and circle over to the dog.
With the sudden appearance of me ahead of her I guess she was surprized and just stopped.
She hasn;t given me a reason to chase her for months ^_^

My friend was a little confused as to why I passed him though. He seems to think that he and the dog were slowing down (which is definately not the case for that dog. My relatives have tried chasing her for hours a few times.)

Note: The dog is a miniature American Eskimo. They have all white fur and are medium sized versions of sleigh dogs. They're almost too big to carry in your arms but not quite.