pokes

Have you ever seen someone tie their dog to a pole to go into a boutique or restaurant? You probably have, not exactly uncommon. Have you ever seen that dog catch site of it's own tail and chase it, running cirles around the poll, slowly winding up all the slack in the leash until suddenly it gets yanked back, choked so to speak by his own idiocy? Metaphors aside, i am that dog: so eager to play and so easily enticed into doing so that i cause detriment to myself in the process.