Mugshot
Cracking a solo.
On the way home last night on the shared use and could hear a bit of a commotion up ahead, it's round a bit of a blind bend so couldn't see but as I started to get closer I saw a woman bending down and getting hold of a dog by it's collar. I thought it must have been her I'd heard shouting after the dog as it had legged it. Anyway as the rest came into view I saw there was a bloke walking towards her with a young woman, turned out to be his daughter, and a dog on a lead.
I exit the path at this point anyway so headed for the gate, one of those upright angled gap blocking jobbies, when the bloke starts shouting that this womans dog should be on a lead. I turned around, they're about two bike lengths behind me on the path and I'm standing astride the bike with my front wheel through the gap, to see him walk up to the woman finger pointing and screaming at her.
I called over
"I think you need to calm down a bit mate"
He ignores this and continues to rant so I called back again,
"Mate, you really need to calm down."
So he turns to me and asks me to butt out, or whatever it was, and I tell him that I don't think he should be finger pointing and screaming in this womans face and he should try to calm down. Then he comes over to me same finger pointing up close and SCREAMS,
"I AM CALM!!! "
Then he starts to jostle me a little to get past so I again tell him that I think he needs to cool it a little as I make my way through the gate. After I'm through and I'm sorting my lights out he starts to shout at me that this womans dog was running riot, I reply that whilst that may be the case he may find people respond better if you don't scream in their faces. Then as he starts to stomp off I heard him say to his daughter,
"I'm just really angry!"
He certainly was
I exit the path at this point anyway so headed for the gate, one of those upright angled gap blocking jobbies, when the bloke starts shouting that this womans dog should be on a lead. I turned around, they're about two bike lengths behind me on the path and I'm standing astride the bike with my front wheel through the gap, to see him walk up to the woman finger pointing and screaming at her.
I called over
"I think you need to calm down a bit mate"
He ignores this and continues to rant so I called back again,
"Mate, you really need to calm down."
So he turns to me and asks me to butt out, or whatever it was, and I tell him that I don't think he should be finger pointing and screaming in this womans face and he should try to calm down. Then he comes over to me same finger pointing up close and SCREAMS,
"I AM CALM!!! "
Then he starts to jostle me a little to get past so I again tell him that I think he needs to cool it a little as I make my way through the gate. After I'm through and I'm sorting my lights out he starts to shout at me that this womans dog was running riot, I reply that whilst that may be the case he may find people respond better if you don't scream in their faces. Then as he starts to stomp off I heard him say to his daughter,
"I'm just really angry!"
He certainly was