decent

 

So, the news about everything is so freaking disgusting these days, and I can hardly bare to read or hear how awful people are to other people. I heard myself saying out loud over and over how I would be nice if I were walking my dog off leash in a part of central park where I wasn't allowed to and asked to leash her up.  But, there was always this little voice in the back of my head asking me if I was sure. I mean, I do feel like some rules are bendable, so I'm not always the most law abiding citizen. I conceded that I thought I'd be nice about it but one never knows until they're in the situation. 

Then came yesterday, I was walking sweet pea and the dog who walks himself in the woods, and we went down a trail that dead ends behind a local elementary school. Normally I only go there on the weekends, but hey, it's summer! school's out for the summer. Once one reached the end of the trail one could turn around and backtrack, or one could dash behind the school and run to another trail which also dead ends behind the school, and that is precisely what I was doing, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a rear door of the school swinging, and I stopped and wondered if I should call someone to tell them that the school door is open, and then I saw a brown arm come out of the door and it was a security guard, who said to me, "You can't be here, summer school is in session." To which I replied "I didn't know! I am so sorry! I'll go straight back into the woods" and I called the dogs over and rushed back into the woods. As I walked away from the school I realized that I now could say with absolutely certainty that if I was walking my dog off leash in an area where I wasn't supposed to and got called out on it I would be a decent human being about it.