OMG everyone!!! OMG Carrie!!! That's SO funny I have one similar to Carries:

I was a little girl of maybe 12 or 13 or so. My yellow lab, Beener was full grown, but very young and I had not yet started training him, so he was not too well behaved.

I often rode my 10 speed bike with Beener, leashed, running beside me. He usually was perfectlly behaved and he kept up with me beautifully. He knew when I was about to turn and he'd turn with the wheel of the bicycle, and when I was about to slow down or stop, he learned the command "sllloooooowwwww" very well. Well, one day I wanted to go to a nearby 7-11 store to get a slurpie, and of course I took Beener because I took him with me just about everywhere. So I got my bike out, got him leashed and headed off. Everything was going well, he was jogging beautifully next to me. I had to head through a fairly wooded park to get to the 7-11 store so we started through the park when I saw someone ahead of me. As I got closer to him I realized it was the first boy I had a crush on, and I had a really big crush on him. Just about when I recognized the boy, Beener saw a squirrel and took off full speed ahead. I was holding his leash so when he ran, he took me with him, I flew off my bike and I began sliding in the leaves until I let go of his leash. My bike was all banged up, but most of all, I was SOOOOO embarressed to have been pulled right off my bike by this dog, and dragged a few feet in the leaves RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KID WHOM I HAD MY FIRST CRUSH ON

He asked me if I was OK, and he tried not to laugh, but I must have been quite a site It was horrid It's amazing I love dogs as much as I do!