So I have a really interesting topic to blog on maybe tomorrow, but for now I thought I’d just write a short blurb about what kind of stuff I’ve been seeing going on lately in and around Wyndham and The Dominion Club. It’s titled “Update 1″ because I’m sure there will be more to come. Am I bitter? No. Am I trying to start something? Absolutely not. I just want to bring to light all of the outrageous stuff that goes on that just seems so accepted as the norm around here, especially lately.

First off, the other day I was driving down Dominion Club Drive, making a detour from Wyndham Lake Drive, which is closed for some sort of repairs. Dominion Club is kind of an eternally turning road. For about a mile you feel like you’re making a huge circle because you’re turning to the right the whole time. Anyway, it’s hard to see anyone who’s running or walking on the road, but hey that’s why we have sidewalks, right? But I know, as a runner myself, that asphalt is more comfortable to run on than concrete, so it’s somewhat understandable to run on the road. So I come around the curve and there’s a couple walking leisurely down the middle of the road, side by side nonetheless! I’m not talking a little bit into the road, they were trotting down the yellow line! I couldn’t believe it. I mean the only time I’ve braked harder to avoid hitting something is for squirrels. I guess they just thought they owned the road or something… I mean I don’t know.

Then, up at the pool (I’ve talked about the ways of this place in a previous post) I was throwing a tennis ball with a friend when it went out of the pool and out into the sidewalk outside the tennis courts and just hit the fence. A lady and her husband were sitting oh maybe fifteen feet away, watching their son play tennis. And wouldn’t you know it she stands up and turns around and gives me this undeserved glare like she wanted to strangle me, all the while saying “Do you even KNOW!? That ball nearly hit me square in the head!” I didn’t even respond to her. I’m not one to make a scene or say something derrogatory back, so I just didn’t respond at all. She acted like a stray ball that fell nowhere near her ruined her day. I went to get the ball and she glared at me once again.

Tonight, I went running. In fact I just got back. In the interest of time, I decided to cut back through The Dominion Club and their network of sidewalks. A couple of people were still watching other people play tennis. I leisurely run by and this woman who was talking to a friend stops talking and gives me this look that I can only describe as a face you’d make if you just drank a glass of Windex or some other noxious, bad-tasting household chemical. She was so offended that I would even consider running down a public sidewalk next to “her” club, and in front of her view for one second.

I wanna get outta here so bad I can’t even tell you. Living at home for now however, I’m sure there will be more updates to come.