Today @ lunch: world's worst seeing-eye dog

My office is in a building that also houses various organizations that research vision loss and/or help the visually impaired, so I frequently see people with white canes, seeing-eye dogs, etc in the area. Today at lunch I encountered the world's worst seeing-eye dog and witnessed an event unparalleled in my experience. Said world's worst seeing-eye dog (WWSED) was ostensibly guiding a visually impaired man along the sidewalk, when without warning, WWSED broke a hard left and lunged into the street, dragging the man off the edge of the sidewalk behind a parked van, stopping just short of traffic. WWSED then gobbled up some disgusting morsel of filth off the pavement, refusing to return to the sidewalk until he was finished. By the time I got over there the man was back on the sidewalk, shouting at the dog, who was serenely licking his lips.

I was shocked.

Then I heard a snotty-sounding Pottery Barn shopper, who had been standing right there the entire time, say to her companion, "I can't believe he's yelling at the dog like that."

Unreal.