Local Runner Just One Irritant Away From Breaking Point
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A local woman halfway through her morning run is “this close” to completely losing her shit, Dumb Runner has learned, and is praying for everyone’s sake that that doesn’t happen.
Jennifer Susan Walters, 33, a lawyer and avid runner, routinely encounters unpleasant situation and obnoxious people during her runs, a source said. But today’s outing, an otherwise routine five-miler, is “packed with them, for some reason.”
On top of that, according to the source, Walters is coming off an unusually stressful week, having had an “awful” meeting with her boss, learned her broken dishwasher would cost $460 to repair, and spent nearly 90 minutes online trying, and failing, to make a vaccination appointment for her grandmother.
Barely halfway through her run, Walters had already encountered an abandoned bag of dog waste, three reckless or distracted drivers, a cloud of cigarette smoke, and a bicycle courier who responded with a vulgarity when she pointed out that he was riding the wrong way down a one-way street.
“Right now,” said the source, “she has to be, like, one irritant away from completely losing it.”
“I’ve seen Jennifer completely lose it,” the source added. “Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? That scene where the Nazis open the Ark of the Covenant? It’s like that.”
“I just pray she doesn’t come up against someone using one of those retractable dog leashes.”
