I forgot to mention one part of the walk from the other night. I was taking a slight shortcut through a bank parking lot and out of the corner of my eye I saw some movement behind and to the side of me. I turned and saw a dog. Here’s a reconstruction of what went though my head while I was busy being startled:

DOG!-straylostrabies?!-(werewolf?)-rabies!-lostdog-stray-help?-run?-CHASED!
I made a loud noise and shouted at it to leave me alone. It was a pretty good sized dog and it was a full moon – so, I was totally justified in the werewolf thought.
The dog wandered away and successfully made the trip across a busy road to pester some people at the dollar store. I continued on to Starbucks – and kept looking for the moon.