visit to crazy town.
Jan. 14th, 2014 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingleaf had a bizarre encounter today.
I was walking Marcus in a public park with a walking trail. During the day. Kids are in school. It's winter. Not a lot of people around. We go there because - sometimes we run into other dogs and he gets to say hello. or - whatever. it's away from salt and roads and cars. It's a change.
back to the point.
I keep Marcus leashed but I don't really fuss about making him walk in tight heel position. He sniffs out squirrels and rabbits and other critters. So he generally wanders from one side of the path to the other. but generally he walks up the left side of the path. When I see someone I generally pull him tight to my side and either put him in wait position or sometimes I try for a sit. - I'm trying to teach him to ignore people he doesn't know.
Now I actually prefer that he walk on my left. After my shoulder injury - my left is the stronger side and it allows me to keep him further away from people we don't know. AND if we were walking on a street - Left keeps him further away from cars when we are walking toward oncoming traffic.
I had a guy - STOP US on our walk to give me Hell for walking on the wrong side of the path. I'm apparently being inconsiderate, rude and irresponsible by walking on the wrong side. I should be treating the path like a roadway, and observe common courtesy and walk on the right side of the path. By disobeying this convention - I could cause accidents - don't cha know.
Strangely enough - I'm really upset by the encounter. In a way I suppose he is correct. but on the other hand - who the hell cares? It's a walking path, in the winter? I think in all the miles of trail that exist in this park - we saw.... 4 maybe, 5 people total?
Did it spoil my walk- yeah actually - it did.
In fact it rather spoiled my whole day - and I let it. which is the bigger issue. Why am I letting this MORON upset me over something so stupid?
I was walking Marcus in a public park with a walking trail. During the day. Kids are in school. It's winter. Not a lot of people around. We go there because - sometimes we run into other dogs and he gets to say hello. or - whatever. it's away from salt and roads and cars. It's a change.
back to the point.
I keep Marcus leashed but I don't really fuss about making him walk in tight heel position. He sniffs out squirrels and rabbits and other critters. So he generally wanders from one side of the path to the other. but generally he walks up the left side of the path. When I see someone I generally pull him tight to my side and either put him in wait position or sometimes I try for a sit. - I'm trying to teach him to ignore people he doesn't know.
Now I actually prefer that he walk on my left. After my shoulder injury - my left is the stronger side and it allows me to keep him further away from people we don't know. AND if we were walking on a street - Left keeps him further away from cars when we are walking toward oncoming traffic.
I had a guy - STOP US on our walk to give me Hell for walking on the wrong side of the path. I'm apparently being inconsiderate, rude and irresponsible by walking on the wrong side. I should be treating the path like a roadway, and observe common courtesy and walk on the right side of the path. By disobeying this convention - I could cause accidents - don't cha know.
Strangely enough - I'm really upset by the encounter. In a way I suppose he is correct. but on the other hand - who the hell cares? It's a walking path, in the winter? I think in all the miles of trail that exist in this park - we saw.... 4 maybe, 5 people total?
Did it spoil my walk- yeah actually - it did.
In fact it rather spoiled my whole day - and I let it. which is the bigger issue. Why am I letting this MORON upset me over something so stupid?
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Date: 2014-01-16 02:44 am (UTC)It's kind of like dealing with my mom, my aunt and I have a saying - "can't make sense out of crazy". You'll drive yourself crazy trying to rationalize it, you do have to just let it go.
That guy was just weird. It would never cross my mind to remark about what side of a path a person was on, as long as they weren't darting back and forth as I was approaching them!
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Date: 2014-01-16 02:49 am (UTC)I once had a woman scream at me from a car because I was turning left FROM A MAIN ROAD into a parking lot, and she was trying to turn left OUT OF THE PARKING LOT and because I had a turning lane (technically a 'suicide lane', the third both-direction turning lane in the middle) she somehow had the right-of-way to turn out in front of me. Pissed me off for DAYS that she thought she was right. Grrrr...
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Date: 2014-01-16 03:27 am (UTC)seriously - less than a minute of interaction and I'm still thinking about it? ridiculous.