My PET Peeve

You can get mad at me if you want.  This is still America, after all.  If you are someone doing this, I'm sure your intentions are pure. However, here is my PET Peeve:

Walking your dog on a leash

while riding your bike ... 

It's good exercise for you both, you say? It's good exercise for  the dog, the first minute or two and I'm sure your doggie is excited to go along because dogs love to walk and they love to please.  BUT, they can't tell you when they're winded or tired or have a pricker in their pad.  It's easy for us humans to say, "I rode my bike three miles today."  What about your poor puppy?  And I often see it down here in Florida, when the sidewalk is so hot, you couldn't walk barefoot without getting blisters. How about your precious critter?

If I can bring relief to one dog, at least, with this post, I'm happy.

Pet Peeve

Every one has a pet peeve or two or many.  Happily, I don't have a lot but this is one that jumps out at me from TV ads, magazine ads, talk shows, movies, interviews, newscast banter, radio, just about any media.  It's everywhere!  Want to know what it is? The over use of the word amazing. While the this word, to me, used to be fine to hear, now it seems to be nearly the only descriptive word used these days.  Just listen for a day and count how often you hear it.  So folks, lets expand our vocabulary with some of these old time favorites instead like wonderful, fabulous, magnificent, glorious, marvelous, splendorous, cool, swell, neat, keen or the bees knees?