Lowell Park

I wish they would just turn it the majority of the main field into a fenced off-​leash dog park, as most locals use the park for their dogs anyway. The non-​locals who use the park on the weekends for soccer or hipstermural baseball are rude to locals, and worse, leave so much trash (mostly empties) and sometimes stay until late at night getting wasted and blasting loud music.

Ugh. The only thing good about Lowell Park is the weekend kid’s soccer games. Otherwise the park is filthy — goose droppings and trash everywhere. The bathroom is disgusting. Really, it couldn’t be any less inviting. Which is a shame because it could be a nice patch of green for the community.

There is some crazy lady who thinks she is so far above the law that she lets her two dogs run around the park OFF LEASH early in the morning. I was walking Dango through the parking lot next to the school and came out on the 14^th street side, and this dog came bounding across the park straight at us! Dango went ape shit because he (and even humans) do not like loose dogs running full speed straight at him. Luckily my boyfriend reacted instantly and ran STRAIGHT AT the loose dog and told it to back off while I hung on to Dango’s leash with all my might. Close call!
But that’s not it! On our way home, coming back down 12^th Street, on the residential side for god’s sake, the same dog comes running at us again! INTO THE STREET! Again, Dango freaks out, Rich charges the dog, and crazy lady does nothing to regain control. I’m like, hello, did you forget that your dog almost started a dog fight just 10 minutes ago? And you still haven’t put a leash on him? And he just ran into the street?! And what did she say? «Oh he’s not going to do anything.» Yeah right! Dango surely WILL do something if he got a hold of him. Besides that, your dog ran in to traffic! Crazy ass bitch.

Damn humans… pick up your trash!
Lowell park would be very lovely, but for the KFC wrappers and chicken bones, which make my (illegal) dog walking pretty much impossible.
Still… little league, soccer, dominoes, basketball… I’ve got it all in my front yard. Nice.
(I could live without the drug deals, but whatev.)