small dogs are not my favorite

Especially when you are trapped in small spaces with them. On my way to church yesterday, I pressed the button for the elevator, it comes up, and I open it. Immediately from within the 3 ft by 3 ft elevator space, this small husky dog on a leash starts barking at me and growling. To give you a better picture, this dog's ears are not symmetrical in appearance in the way they fold back, and it's got crossed eyes with one of them being severely bloodshot. Basically, it looked like it had spent the past hour running itself into a wall, beating itself up. Not a little fellar I wanted to be BFF with.

To compound the aggresive, pent up dog, also in the elevator is the dog's owner -- a petite, yet stocky woman who I think may have had an earlier career in wrestling, possibly wrestling men. Of course I hesitate to get in to the elevator.

She yanks back on the already tight leash so that the dog smashes into the back of the elevator, and says "get in, get in, don't worry." So I get in, holding my breath, and feeling butterflies in my stomach, thinking I'm about to be bitten on the leg by a dog that looks like it has alot of circuits upstairs not connected properly.

As we start going down, the owner says "he just doesn't like it when he thinks someone is trying to mess with his outside time" as the dog moves over to me so that it is now over my feet, smelling my shoes.
"Oh" I reply, "I like to get outside to, I might react the same way." thinking, don't bite me, don't bite me, I'll so kick you in the face and then step on you crazy dog, don't bite me...
"Ya, but you probably don't bark at people" she responded.
"No, I can't say that I do" I reply as the elevator arrives to the bottom. I open the door, and quickly make my exit, feeling a large rush of relief come over me.

So it was nothing close to a near death experience, but this incident just reaffirmed previous thoughts that I really don't like small dogs all that much. They just seem to frequently bark in very annoying manners, and be aggressive, pent up bundles of anger. That's not true for every small dog I've come across of course, but that seems to be the norm.