2005-01-26 - 12:14 p.m.
Ok I'll add a real entry now, although the other one stands.
I was at the gym yesterday and a man came in and he had a cane, yes a cane. he proceeds to walk over to the treadmills and get one and start the belt going and walk on the treadmill. Did I mention he has a cane. Should a man who uses a cane walk on a treadmill? I don't know about that. may ride the reclining bike but a treadmill? So I know I'm beating a dead horse, but it doesn't make sense. If he was doing some kind of therapy maybe he should have his therpist there, as I was sweatin' with the oldies (not a very young gym) I watched him in the mirror and he stumbled... again man with cane probably not a good idea to be on the treadmill. He wasn't using his cane on the treadmill, but he did have a death grip on the handlebars, and I can guess it wasn't so he could get his heart rate.
So I pondered that last night.. man at gym with cane, and I remembered a story my friend told me about a couple going to the zoo with their seeing eye dogs. The dogs caused the wild wolves and lynxs to go crazy. So it makes me wonder, why would someone who needs a seeing eye dog go to the zoo? I am sure that the wolves aren't there to be petted seeing as they are foaming at the mouth and trying to break out of their cages to attack the seeing eye dogs. And it's not a petting zoo, it's a regular zoo where people go to LOOK at animals. Why would you go someplace to look at animals if you can't see them.
Blind wife: Oh lets go to the zoo I've been dying to smell the elephants.
Blind husband: Oh yes I love the smell of a good tiger! Not to mention how those monkeys sound!
Anyhow I was thinking about that.
But on to zoos in general, are they good. I've been to one zoo in my whole life and it was in China. I was mortified. The elephant was emancipated, I could count his ribs! And the tour guide made him do they idiotic tricks by bribing him with a peanut, just one peanut. Any other self respecting elephant would have extended his truck and snotted on anyother guide, but this poor creature was starved. And at this zoo there was a big pit of monkeys and they were amusing, until you realized that they were so underfed and maimed. One monkey had no ass, it looked like he sat on a sander and rubbed the fur and skin off his ass. It was horrible! And there was a display of dogs, just plain ol' dogs that we would have as house pets here. I can understand that they aren't so common in China being as it is so densly populated and larger dogs aren't so feesable, and it was a poorer part of the country. I am sure that someone is saying that they eat them so they are rare. I'm not too sure if they eat dogs in China, but I know they eat them in Korea. But I'll advocate Koreans eating dogs. AHHH they are pets, blah blah blah. Ask some 4-H kid who raised his calf from birth as you chomp into your next burger about pets. Anyhow funny thing is that in Korea dog meat is crazy expensive! There are resturants that are soley dog meat. I can't remember the Korean word for it, but I didn't try it, not that I wouldn't have, I did eat snail poo... (which is a whole other entry) but I didn't have it. I did see a dog farm, it was sad because I do see dogs as pets, but I won't judge Koreans who eat them cause it's a cultural thing. Funny the dog farm was next to an American military base in Korea. I wonder how it really affected the boys on that base? Again a whole new entry.
So the moral of this whole run on thought is that if you use a cane ride the bike, if you have seeing eye dogs, steer clear of zoos, elephants should be fat and dogs are yummy to some people.
Have a nice day!
