No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

So I decided to take the day off from school today. Growing up when I did this my mom had me help clean the house. Blast her! My day off I spent it cleaning the house...I really washed my glass door and inside of my windows! So while I was cleaning my Cat went crazy. There was this little dog outside. As I went out to throw away my first can of trash I thought to myself I wonder if that is one of the dogs from across the street. I called my dad and he said it was prob from up the street and they are always out. Ok fine I let her be. This little dog came back that day and girl saw her take up the creek. About 20 minutes later I am outside repotting some plants and I hear the old lady across the street yelling. So I go over there and she tells me her little dog got out. Yeah that came to my house twice. I helped looked and couldnt find it. While I am outside washing my patio doors I hear this dog out behind my house and it is crying like it is hurt. So what do I do...I go inside and put on my hiking boots. I go over to the creek and start to follow it up. My boots have been through a lot and well they aren't really water proof anymore. So I hike my but up that creek having to get out of the water cuz it got a little deep. Find the dog on the OTHER side of the creek. Not the ladys dog...this is a new dog...a cute little puppy. Well I couldnt get to it and I wasnt going to try. In that 20 minutes trying to find the dog I got all sorts of scratched up and maybe even a little posion ivy. I am not sure....I just see a little dot on my hand like the last time I got posion ivy. if it turns into two dots tomorrow then we will know what it is. On my way back down the creek, I got stuck in the creek bed...by that I mean I couldn't get up the bank because there were too many thorns. So I try my luck and head down the creek.....it got really deep. Like up to my knees. So my boots are in my window drying out and I'm washing my brand new jeans. They still haven't found the dog so i get to listen to this readneck older lady yell the dogs name, GeeChee I think, and then Come Hoooome. If I was the dog I know I wouldn't be in a hurry to come home to that. Well I'm off to do more cleaning!!!!