You Know -

- that it has been a successful dog walk when you have extended no more effort than languidly meandering around for 45 minutes, but the dog has had so much exercise that his tongue appears twice its natural length and he is panting like an asthmatic Darth Vader on speed.

Yup.
     =nods=

You also know that when one opts to walk on fields overgrown with grasses and pretty weeds in flimsy cork bottomed sandals that the law of averages dictates that sooner or later one is going to step on a plant that has either spikes or stingers (or both), and that when this finally happens, it is going to hurt.

Yup.
     =nods=

.....or at least, you WOULD know that, if you had a fraction of an ounce of sense.
     Which, of course, I have.

Yup. I have lots of sense.
     Yup.

=.....nods, then hobbles off in search of some warm water to soak her foot in.....=

Alice x