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ORIGINAL: Luvntzus

I'm so mad right now! Twice in this past week there's been an "incident" when I was out walking my dogs, minding my own business! The one that happened about 20 minutes ago is the one that I'm fuming about.

I had Gingerbread and Fudge on a grassy area right next to my apartment complex. There were 3 older teenagers by another building across the sidewalk from me. One of them was taking a picture of the other 2 using a disposable camera and I realized that I was in the distant background. So I walked over to another area and who do you think comes over to snap ANOTHER picture with me in the background. [&o] This time they were only a few feet away and I realized that they were doing it on purpose so I told the dogs "let's go" and walked REALLY fast down the sidewalk and around a corner to another open area. Guess who comes around the corner!?! I walked straight towards them, glaring at them and passed by them. At that point I was headed towards home. So as the 3 of them were walking away, one of them turned over his should and snapped a picture of me. I was PISSED at this point so I yelled "I don't want to be in your pictures, so stop it!" [:@] I just glared at all three of them as they walked away; one them looked like "sorry, we shouldn't have done that". What a bunch of hoodlums! I didn't have my cell phone, otherwise I would have called the police. I'm not going walking again without my cell. My husband is actually on his way home from work right now. I called him just to vent and he decided he'd feel safer coming home. I didn't expect that, but I'm not going to complain about being able to spend time with him. []

The other incident happened a few days ago. AGAIN, I was walking Gingerbread and Fudge, minding my own business. We were on our way home from a walk and I saw a guy coming up the sidewalk towards us, so I moved the dogs and I to the area next to the sidewalk. As the guy walked towards us he showed NO interest in the dogs. After he went by, he lunged for Fudge. I was like "what the" and Fudge had darted out of the way. The guy then said in a surprised voice- "oh, is he pettable". [:-] I said "yeah, but you can't just go swooping in on him like that, you have to let him go up to you". He nodded his head and at that point he was standing there, waiting for Fudge to come over and I said "I think you should just leave him be because you scared him" and the guy goes- "okay, I'll keep that in mind". I felt like I was talking to a little kid. [&:] The guy looked totally normal, but obviously he wasn't normal. *Edited to add. Fudge was really shy with people when I first got him. As in, growling and backing away when people wanted to pet him. I kept having friendly people over to our place and letting him see people from a distance when we went walking, going over when/if he was comfortable. He's recently gotten to the point that he actually WANTS to go over to people. He wags his tail and lets them pet him without shying away. If that guy had grabbed him or something like that, it could have really set him back and made him scared of people all over again. It's a little scary because I don't know exactly what the guy's intentions were.

Another time, a few months ago (I posted about this in the NDR section) I was eating with my husband at Denny's late at night and there was a guy outside the window that exposed himself (less than a foot away from me) [] and was doing.... well, you can google the archives I guess if you care for the details. Suffice it to say, it was disgusting and I felt truly violated. I was in shock at the time. I called the police the next day and it was too late to do anything about it. [&o]

So basically, I'm getting really tired of being assaulted by other peole when I'm out minding my own business! Grrrr! Thanks for listening to my vent.