Things I've learned while running

Sometimes, I learn deep, profound lessons while running. Sometimes I learn random things that I really wish I didn't know. Today was an example of the latter. It seems that spring is prime season for roadkill. No, this isn't what I learned. What I did learn is that buzzards (vultures, whatever you want to call them) eat and poop in the same place. As I was running past a carcass of unknown origins (seriously, this thing was picked CLEAN) I realized I was also running through lots and lots of bird poop. Gross. Evidentally these nasty creatures must make room for the roadkill somehow and they aren't afraid to do it where they eat.

Some other things I've learned:

1. People will throw anything out of their car. ANYTHING! The worst? A hypodermic needle. I don't even want to know what they used it for.
2. Some things never break down, whatever the weather. I've been running past the same diaper since October.
3. It takes about a mile and a half of driving to drink a can of beer. Why do I know this? About a mile and a half from the bar there are always beer cans by the road.
4. If someone smokes in their house you can smell it when running past. I don't know why, but I can. I can tell you who smokes along my running route because if it is early in the morning or late at night when I run I can smell it.

Someday I might share some of the more serious things I've learned since I started running. Right now though, I guess I just needed to share with someone the nastiness that I encounter on a daily basis.

~Mel