It is a jungle out there.

There she was, a mid 50s a disciplined runner who is the envy of ladies of her age in the housing estate who would die to have a physique like hers, waiting outside the emergency room with her right hand all dressed up to see an orthopaedic doctor who would later assess the extend of her injuries and probably stitch up her hand which had been mauled by a stray dog. She, a dog owner herself, of many Rottweilers and Alsatians, as her husband trained guard dogs for a living could not believe her predicament.

Having lived a time just after a time when typhoid and tuberculosis were treated with eggs and fresh air, she believed in the outdoors. Equipped with a earphones and iPod, she would just go for her evening runs without disturbing a soul but with her sole intention to complete her bodily duties.
In fact, a few minutes before the said event, she had patted the stray dog. On her way back, out of the blues, as if like possessed, she went for her hand. A Good Samaritan who came to her rescue was also injured!
The outdoors is becoming more hostile to us as time go by. Forget about fresh air! The moment we step outside the comfort of our homes, we are greeted with fumes of automobiles and the ever deteriorating quality of air. If that is not enough, we have the ever expanding horse power capacity cars manned (and 'woman'ed) by mindless drivers with ever shrinking thoughts for pedestrians to dodge from. Then we have to brace ourselves against the tyranny of knife yielding small time petty thieves.
So it looks the outdoors is only for animals- it is a jungle out there!

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