A close encounter with the local wildlife
Sep. 30th, 2015 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI'm not having a terribly good day. I was in a hurry leaving home this morning and I got to work only to discover I'd left my pass at home. I spent ages finally solving a particularly thorny code problem only to realise several hours later that I'd done it wrong.
Then, to add insult to injury, while out on my evening run I collided with a gull. Or, more precisely, the gull collided with me.
As I was running along by the river, a flock of gulls flew up from the water in the direction of the cafes on the bank having, presumably, spotted an unattended slice of pizza or somesuch. One of them, paying more attention to the flight paths of its rapacious brethren than to me, failed to judge my speed correctly and slammed into me at mid-thigh. I was OK and didn't even break stride while the bird picked itself up with an embarrassed squawk and flapped off, thereby alleviating any guilt I might have felt about removing it from the gene pool.
Then, to add insult to injury, while out on my evening run I collided with a gull. Or, more precisely, the gull collided with me.
As I was running along by the river, a flock of gulls flew up from the water in the direction of the cafes on the bank having, presumably, spotted an unattended slice of pizza or somesuch. One of them, paying more attention to the flight paths of its rapacious brethren than to me, failed to judge my speed correctly and slammed into me at mid-thigh. I was OK and didn't even break stride while the bird picked itself up with an embarrassed squawk and flapped off, thereby alleviating any guilt I might have felt about removing it from the gene pool.
