Pet hate: traffic at school pick-up time".
Among its residents are bicycle rights advocates, organic-food obsessives and animal lovers so pained by the sight of dogs on leashes that they release pets into traffic.
By Garrison Keillor The New Yorker, August 6, 1979 P. 28 Writer complains that while millions of man-hours are spent worrying about the one chance in six hundred billion that Skylab will fall on you, people continue to live dangerously: they cross streets against traffic pet strange dogs, wander away from the group and get lost, put foreign objects in their mouths.
Writer complains that while millions of man-hours are spent worrying about the one chance in six hundred billion that Skylab will fall on you, people continue to live dangerously: they cross streets against traffic pet strange dogs, wander away from the group and get lost, put foreign objects in their mouths.
Sometimes my stress or frustration over life's little annoyances -- traffic, pet hair, WiFi outage, people who confuse leggings with pants - seep in to my voice and I find myself taking things out on my husband that really have nothing to do with him.
Try to look beyond minor irritations or pet peeves like traffic or people who talk during movies--pay attention to the things that consistently evoke more than passing irritation.
Other life-easing perks include company vans to commute across the notorious Bangalore traffic (Biocon), pet insurance and family flu shots (Regeneron), and backup day- or eldercare (Gilead).
Road traffic trauma, pet predation, toxoplasmosis, trap injuries, rodenticide poisoning and electrocution accounted for 61% of all recorded mortality in this study.
Red squirrels in Britain suffer premature or unnatural mortality due to a number of conditions in addition to squirrelpox, many of which result, directly or indirectly, from human activities: road traffic trauma, pet predation, toxoplasmosis, trap injuries, rodenticide poisoning and electrocution accounted for 61% of all recorded mortality in this study.
