Revenge is Best Served Very Cold

There is a hoomun phrase I believe, about revenge being a dish best served cold? Today it was served very cold and I had no part in it, although if K9's could laugh out loud I would have been laughing very loudly! There may be those who remember The Owner's unkind mirth at my predicament last year when I discovered the downside to trying to run on ice not thick enough to take the weight of a slim and very fit K9 of my stature. This morning The Owner was remarkably chipper when we left the cottage as normal and wandered in the general direction of the studio. There then followed much patting of pockets and jackets which normally precedes a return walk back to the cottage. Glasses, phone and keys retrieved from the dining room table where he had left them, we started our journey again, only this time he was stopping and taking pictures of frost on the grass and trees and stuff like that. Then his attention was caught by the pond, which given the frost we have seen these last two days had a layer of ice over it. The Owner went to the edge of the pond and kicked at the ice a little, it didn't break. So he tentatively put a foot on the ice and pressed down, it still didn't break! So he put both feet on and stood there with the kind of satisfied smug look on his face that a hoomun child may have when they first discovered that legs are for standing with. His day then took several rapid turns for the worse as he suddenly slid across the ice and fell on his backside on a bit of ice which was apparently not capable of supporting such a weight or shock and gave way with a strange crunching splash. One of which I was all too familiar myself last winter. The Owner looked a picture and one which I wished I could have used his phone to take.... except it was in the pond with him and now is refusing to co-operate on any level. The Owner squelched his way home again, apparently devoid of his former good humour with which he started his day. He is now dry, with his phone in bits spread across the radiator and is grumbling about everything so I think I will make myself scarce for the rest of the day.