Honestly, if coffee shops don't actually start *doing* something about this (just the odd sign or announcement would be something) then they'll lose my custom.

Reminds me of this.

I don't want to make a scene *after* I've been pushed towards the road. I want it not to happen in the first place. Parents of toddlers manage this. So can dog owners. 90 percent of them do, to be fair.

If I'm being really unpopular today... people should not have dogs like that if they live in old towns with narrow pavements by busy roads. It's dangerous, as I found today, and that overrides their wish to own that kind of dog. If they live in the middle of nowhere that's rather different.

Indeed! Also because the joke doesn't work otherwise: "What do you call a really fast bun? 'S gone!"