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Lovely sunny walk this morning in beautiful country park. Nice start to the day right?

Wrong :mad: What is it with people not saying hello to you? I always say "morning" or "hi" to everyone I meet. But when I get nothing back it really winds me up.

Cyclists I find are the worst offenders (and yes they did hear me).

Also, when you make a concertid effort to hold your dog/s when a bike comes past at breakneck speed on a path and you don't get thanked.

Well you'll get a loud "you're welcome!" shouted after you :mad::mad::mad:

ARGHHHH - phew feel better now! :D

Anyone else get wound up by this?
 
YES! :D And cyclists are the worst. Apparrently a bright yellow bib saying PLEASE PASS WIDE AND SLOW doesn't count for a silent bike approaching at speed from behind my horse and trying to pass us on a narrow trail with no warning grrr

I do think when you make an effort to get you / dog / horse out of someone else's way it at least deserves a nod in your direction......
 
mollichop said:
Lovely sunny walk this morning in beautiful country park. Nice start to the day right?

Wrong :mad: What is it with people not saying hello to you? I always say "morning" or "hi" to everyone I meet. But when I get nothing back it really winds me up.

Cyclists I find are the worst offenders (and yes they did hear me).

Also, when you make a concertid effort to hold your dog/s when a bike comes past at breakneck speed on a path and you don't get thanked.

Well you'll get a loud "you're welcome!" shouted after you :mad::mad::mad:

ARGHHHH - phew feel better now! :D

Anyone else get wound up by this?
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YES it really irritates me! Would it really kill you to say 'hello' ?!! It's just rude IMO!

Also - pulling over to let a car past in a narrow street and they drive past nose stuck up in the air, not even a glance let alone a raised hand! I know they can't hear me but they always get a 'IT'S FINE NO PROBLEM!' as they drive on by. Rude Rude Rude ignorant people!!! :D
 
I always say hello to people! I'm far too polite to ignore anyone.

To get to work I have to drive up a narrow track that is VERY popular with dog walkers and families with the occasional cyclist as well as any horses ridden out from work.

The track only fits one car but has alot of little lay bys and a large verge for walkers etc.

EVERYONE that uses the track walks in the middle of the road, with their dogs off lead 5 miles ahead / behind them and they will take as much time as they can to move onto the verge / grab their dog. When I eventually get past them I always smile and wave and they look at me like I'm dirt.

Sheeeeesh! Who would imagine a car on the roads???

Then there are people who do not recall their dogs and I have to crawl past praying I dont hear a thud :(

Then we have the lovely ones that laugh when their dog goes for the horses legs...

I still thank them all..... maybe I should be less polite?
 
Not everyone wants to socialise with you when your walking
Cyclists cycling fast have probably not heard you, and you probably wont hear their thanks! And it's kind of essential you pull your dog out of the way.

Why not just go and enjoy the walk without worrying about other people?
 
Scranny_Ann said:
Also - pulling over to let a car past in a narrow street and they drive past nose stuck up in the air, not even a glance let alone a raised hand! I know they can't hear me but they always get a 'IT'S FINE NO PROBLEM!' as they drive on by. Rude Rude Rude ignorant people!!! :D
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^^^ This!!! OMG it really gets on my nerves! Or if you let someone out of a junction on a busy road and they just ignore you...and when someone pulls out in front of you and then goes dead slow and holds you up :mad: :mad: grrrr....ok rant over! sorry :o
 
I have lived outside the UK for a while now and EVERYONE says hello, now when i go into a shop in england and say hello to the staff i am normally looked at like i am a 3 eyed freak!

I *********g hate cyclists, i had one flying towards me one day and my horse went nuts, dumped me on the road and pissed off, there i was on the ground bleeding and he just carried on like nothing was wrong, i w******d him as i was struggling to my feet and chased after the horse who entered the local scout camp where literally thousands of little scouts were having a great time untill said horse (did i mention he was a Stallion) came galloping through the camp to get to a horny little shetland he knew on the other side!!! After i caught him from between the hedge and barbed wire fence i had to do a "limp of shame" with him, he had a huge erection (and wasnt afraid to show it) and was screaming his head off. Sooooo embarrased but thank god no one was injured:D
 
I was going to do a post similar to this yesterday!!!
I took Millie for a hobble and got wound up by a silly man. He said that Millie was a nice sort, nowt wrong with that but then he went on to say things such as:
'Will you be having a litter from IT'
'Do you work IT'
'Bitch like that I'd get a litter from IT'
Not once did he refer to her by her name even though I repeated it to him several times. He then said it was 'a crying shame and waste of a damn fine bitch not to breed from it'
I know its silly and I was probably just in a grump anyways.
Oh, and joggers who run up behind you and then complain when your dog barks or growls at them!! HELLO don't run up to me like a mugger! Millie doesn't care that you are bedecked in the latest nikes and ipods she is protecting me!
 
I get the extremes, either people giving me horrified looks and edging/running backwards or people saying 'oh what lovely dogs, can I say hi?'
SPLAT
'Yeah, sorry about your nice black trousers :o'

I don't care so much with bikes as they are usually in a hurry but they normally do thank me for taking the dogs out of the way and so do walkers.

Cars again, either nice and wide and slow and waving and I wave back, or so close and fast that they suck me out into the path of the next one coming.
The nice spud lorry guys are much more polite after that couple of times I had to throw the dogs into the ditch and jump in after them.
 
Much like CC I seldom have this problem, people either cross the road or force their way into the underbrush in the woods to let us pass, or get splatted once and give us a wide berth thereafter. :o

I don't mind if people don't say hello, I'm an anti-social old git. I reserve my anger for those people who let their dog crap in the middle of the path when there is perfectly servicable long grass/woodland/brush either side of the path that it could have been flicked in. :mad:

Haven't actually met a cyclist since we've started doing more bikejoring, that'll be interesting, she's now highly motivated to run in front of bikes... :eek:
 
Allover said:
I *********g hate cyclists, i had one flying towards me one day and my horse went nuts, dumped me on the road and pissed off, there i was on the ground bleeding and he just carried on like nothing was wrong, i w******d him as i was struggling to my feet and chased after the horse who entered the local scout camp where literally thousands of little scouts were having a great time untill said horse (did i mention he was a Stallion) came galloping through the camp to get to a horny little shetland he knew on the other side!!! After i caught him from between the hedge and barbed wire fence i had to do a "limp of shame" with him, he had a huge erection (and wasnt afraid to show it) and was screaming his head off. Sooooo embarrased but thank god no one was injured:D
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OMG - LMAO :D Sorry Allover!! (Obviously not funny that you came off in the first place though!)

I always say hello to people either riding or walking and I guess we get so many grockles down here who obviously come from the towns, they look so surprised!

I HATE cyclists with a passion - grrrrr :mad: For the last couple of years they have held two stages of the Tour de Britain here and since then we have had an explosion of them. They string out along the roads and you just can't pass them - Christ, when I am towing and I tow really slowly, I always, always pull over at the nearest place, I can't bear holding people up, but you can be following a blasted cyclist for miles and they just carry on regardless :mad:
 
Im anti socail as hell, so no communicating from me (I spend alot of my time in my own little world), OH always says "hi" when he passes folk, I lower my head and storm on by, I always call the dogs close when bikes pass if im aware they are there and they always say "thanks" If I get anyone moaning or complaining my answers are repetative "shut it you gormless t*at" :mad: I would love the carry on the argument but they always move along swiftly:rolleyes:

I get the whole "wow look at those dogs" people staring, I ignore them and walk swiftly passes, sometimes if Im really pished off I say "FFS, have folk never seen more than 1 dog out at anyone time" ? again they swiftly move on.

Its official.... to know me, is to know I can be a miserable b!tch when Im not in the best of moods and im pretty antisocial.
 
People not saying thank you is my biggest pet hate, I cycle/ride horses/occasionally muster a pathetic jog and I bellow thank you to anyone who makes even the slightest effort to get out my way.
I don't care if you're in training for the Tour de bloody France, you shouldn't be going so fast past pedestrians that they can't hear your Thank You.
Where I walk the dog is supposed to be no bikes allowed, however it doesn't appear to stop them, you think they'd be shamed into being extra-courtious, doesn't seem to work like that.
I find joggers the most ignorant though, I always get myself and the dog out their way, and not so much as a glance in my direction :mad: They don't have right of way purely because they put on some lycra and prattled about the woods barely out of walk :mad: :mad:

The Rockclimbers always seem to like Otto joining in their games... :D :D :D :D
 
mollichop said:
Lovely sunny walk this morning in beautiful country park. Nice start to the day right?

Wrong :mad: What is it with people not saying hello to you? I always say "morning" or "hi" to everyone I meet. But when I get nothing back it really winds me up.

Cyclists I find are the worst offenders (and yes they did hear me).

Also, when you make a concertid effort to hold your dog/s when a bike comes past at breakneck speed on a path and you don't get thanked.

Well you'll get a loud "you're welcome!" shouted after you :mad::mad::mad:

ARGHHHH - phew feel better now! :D

Anyone else get wound up by this?
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living in/near Peterborough in surprised you dare say hi to anybody and id hold onto my dog/s just so that they dont get nicked! lol
 
I can be quite anti social.

I have a stressful job and I am constantly looking after other people's physical and emotional needs.

At the yard and when walking my dogs I am indulging in ME time and I am not interested in chatting or fullfilling other people's desires for conversation or communication.

I imagine most other people are the same.

I move my dogs away from cyclists and other risks and I consider that to be my job as a responsible dog owner - I certainly don't expect people to thank me for controlling my dogs.

As for driving - say thank you or don't. I don't care - but PLEASE PLEASE don't blind me by flashing full beam in my eyes - ugh!
 
As for joggers - if you look into jogging psychology, they tend to be in a zen like state. It's a bit like meditation.

I wouldn't be offended if they don't communicate. They're having their ME time.
 
As a cyclist i am usually to pissed off and the piles of dog crap and dogs that have been allowed to chase me to want to do anything other than throw a wet fish at dog owners faces! :D
 
Oberon said:
As for joggers - if you look into jogging psychology, they tend to be in a zen like state. It's a bit like meditation.

I wouldn't be offended if they don't communicate. They're having their ME time.
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The ones who are clearly serious runners always say thank you, the ones that don't are the people who are barely put of walk and so busy gassing to their 'jogging buddy' I'm surprised they have enough air left to breathe.
Zen-like state my backside, they're just rude.

When I walk my dog, I'm having my ME time, I don't much like having to trek through the undergrowth to get out of their way, a nod wouldn't go amiss. Being in your own world/focussed/meditating/zen like trance is a poor excuse for a lack of manners.
 
In the Chase EVERY walker seems to say hello and want a chat. Cyclists do my nut too but Pip likes to do her scarey doggy act at them along with creepy men in the dark. :D:D:D:D (it is an act if they walk up to her or I take a step back there is a sudden silence!)
But her pet hate is hooded teenagers in the dark. Personally not too worried...what you going to nick...my poo bags (I don't carry anything when I'm out). But makes groups of them walk in single file and say good evening
You see you can't see she is a little cocker in the pitch black when she is black and strangely like me previous dog she barks like a dog twice her size!

So no just cyclists and their complete intolerance towards other road/path users :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
I have the opposite issue in NYC: over-familiarity. Randoms will bend down and start kissing my dogs, drunks will uncurl Prince's tail and laugh, kids will pat the dogs on the head as we pass. I am blessed to have dogs that ignore all of this while we're walking, or else they'll lap up the attention if we're stationary.

Where I ride, everyone says hello. Not only that, but cars slow down when I walk the dogs at the side of the road.

And in support of England, my home village is very friendly, even the cyclists.
 
We must be lucky round here, everyone says hello when out dog walking. There are lots of people to chat to too. It's really a pleasure to walk your dogs where I live.

However general rudeness irritates me - people who don't say thank you for me holding a door get a "your welcome!" too Molls :)
 
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