Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2015
You're really wound up about this aren't you? To the point where you deliberately type things out or choosing to misunderstand me or you're innocently doing so, IDKThere is no reason for a "bigger picture". This is ONE incident at this trail. Just one. I don't care what 'most of us are talking about". The OP came here to vent about some one acting like a jerk to him and his mother and as is the habit of the DIS, everyone has to leap on and tell him how its all his fault and he was putting his mother in danger and the biker in danger and on and on and on.
As for losing you on that statement, you keep telling me what "everybody is talking about". I am quite able to comprehend. I don't agree necessarily but I comprehend. Just because I don't agree doesn't mean you have to explain what they mean to me.
This whole thread is literally about what the biker said and did. Not about what might happen at some undisclosed point in the future. Its not about what you want to make it into. Its about what happened on the day in question and what the guy said and did. So its not tunnel vision, its staying on topic. Every thread does not need some bigger picture with a plan for the future nor does every thread warrant advise or suggestions.
I didn't say they were on an interstate, I said you are acting like they are on an interstate. Not an exaggeration. If I said something about them walking down an interstate THEN I would be exaggerating. I am just pointing out to you how all these "danger" warnings are sounding.
I don't know what you need to prove, I am not the one trying to prove it. You seem hell bent on making him admit that they were totally in the wrong and deserved getting told off by the guy. But if he does not feel that they were, then he doesn't need to admit that. He knows his area and what is the norm at this trail. I don't think he posted this to find out what the norm is at your walking trails or at mine or at anyone else's. He came here to vent about someone speaking rudely to him and his mom.
I am not picking and choosing anything. the cyclist wasn't going fast, he stopped and walked his bike, they were all the way over to the edge of the path and out of the way, exactly how was the cyclist in danger?
Where exactly did the OP say this: "the cyclist can just go around me there's space" ?? Oh, that's right. . . he didn't. He DID say that there was enough room for the cyclist to stay on his side of the trail and go around them. I don't make it a habit of doubting anything a poster says so I am going to say that he wasn't daring the cyclist or playing chicken, he was just walking with his mom and there was plenty of room.
Some of your comments are just you trying to stir up something that isn't there--take "Where exactly did the OP say this: "the cyclist can just go around me there's space" ?? Oh, that's right. . . he didn't." How about I quote my comment so you can see for yourself what was actually said and what was simply musings/hypothetical/reasonable thoughts that one can have as a rational person and you tell me who's the person exaggerating (rhetorical comment):
Additionally the OP states: "If he wouldn't have stopped we could have easily went left onto the grass" so they were able to get out of the way; just opted at that time to not probably thinking "the cyclist can just go around me there's space" or whatever.
FWIW I was actually giving the OP the benefit of the doubt there-you're just so into whatever you're into that you're reacting to things that just aren't there.
I think we've run this course on this thread now; let's not quote each other, K?