Gazelle on the Serengeti

So I'm walking to work as fast as my short legs will carry me when ZOOM, something runs past me. It's a fleet-footed two-legged gazelle! This animal moved like the wind and her torso rode immobile on a gyroscope as her long legs hurdled whole sections of sidewalk with an effortless gait that took her down the path and out of sight to safety in no time. She wasn't fast enough that I didn't identify her listening device as an iPod shuffle though. I looked at my shuffle and wondered if it would ever travel that fast under my own power and was inspired to test my own legs out in a short sprint down the street and I do mean a short sprint. If it was half as graceful as my attempt to move to the front of the bus as it was coming to a stop that morning, then the gazelle was probably laughing from a distance as she lapped from a stream of Evian.

I'd noticed people sort of getting up for their stop and approaching the bus door as perhaps some kind of bus etiquette whereby you get off the bus as quickly as you can to ensure your fellow passengers a speedy continuance to their eventual destination. I tried, but had to navigate a set of stairs in the nosebleed section of the bus's stadium seating and the bus was just about at a complete stop when I began down those stairs. I think the driver did it on purpose, and some of my fellow passengers narrowly dodged a face-full of crotch as a result.