Just a post about a dog...

I thought for a while about trying to make a point out of this post but in the end that seemed rather silly and forced. Instead this is simply a post about a dog doing something I thought was rather odd...

So Meg's folks have been in town for the last week. We haven't been able to write much, but we have gotten a decent amount of skiing in. Our last day was spent at Steamboat, and after the day of skiing we were driving around town and saw a dog in the middle of the road.
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The dog was rather big and seemed quite content to just lie in the middle of the road. We stopped the car, honked the horn, and waited, but the dog seemed just as immobile as before. We waited a bit longer, befuddled at this odd moment (how often do dogs just decide to lie down in the middle of a side street and not get up, after all?), before finally carefully passing it. It was one of those moments where I expected the dog to bolt and crash headlong into the car, much like passing a deer on the side of the road.

In the end that never happened. We passed the dog, while it looked at us with the same puzzled expression we must have had, as if we each thought the actions of the other quite out of place. Here are pictures of said dog:

(Us waiting for the dog to move... or even respond to the horn)

(Finally deciding to pass)

(His/her look of confusion at our bizarre actions)