A story in the U.K's Daily Telegraph, details why a father has been named one of the laziest men in Britain for walking his pet dog while sitting in his car!
Kevin Pyle, 35, (so no apparent fitness excuse there) gets his son to drive him slowly around the block and, with his arm stretched out of the window, holds a lead attached to his bull mastiff Bruce, who walks alongside the car.
According to the Telegraph, Kevin claims to cover around four miles a week without taking a single step himself! He is quoted as saying "It sounds terrible that I take Bruce for a walk like that, but it saves me from getting wet when it's raining. He really enjoys it and it saves my legs." What a role model! Unsurprisingly, it is Kevin's son Karl, 18, who nominated him for the competition to find the region's laziest person, with the dubious title of "The Great North Bum".
At least Kevin isn't so lazy he doesn't get out of bed! In fact he gets up at 4.30 to 5am to go to work, but wakes his son up so he can drive around the block with Bruce!
This morning on my school run with the kids, we saw an equally lazy blonde lady (not unlike Paris Hilton) cell phone in one hand and extendable lead in the other. This typical morning city routine, differed only because while the dog at the end of the lead, a toy breed, was on the other side of the garden railings, she (Paris) remained firmly on the pavement, occasionally lifting her arm to extend a bit more lead above the railings! The children and I wondered how the dog didn't end up wrapped around a tree or tangled in a bush! Having been lifted over the railings to get into the garden, the dog was obviously used to this walking technique, and returned happily to its owner (still on the phone) somehow through the railings!
But then who am I to talk, I was in the car driving to school! Toffee, however would have been horrified! Her daily run to the park, is sacrosanct! 3 or 4 miles goes quickly when you are being pulled along by a speedy labrador!