12-03-2015, 12:12 AM
You just made me feel better about my post and how confrontational it was, so thanks.
This reminds me of setting up my raft at Rockport earlier this year, going to park my car and coming back to some idiot standing there watching this pack of kids he was tending going through my stuff in my raft, messing with the mooring lines, looking in my bags. I yelled out, "Hey, what the hell??!" and they just sort of meandered away with no apology or any other words uttered. Unfortunately the truth is that a lot of people who take their kids outdoors for recreation are not responsible parents. From what I've seen, the kids get the idea that being away from civilization means that they can act like little jerks and the parents then let them.
It's nice that I have my dog around when I fish, not only because she's fun to have around but because she watches my back and growls at anybody that comes near. It's true that a dog keys in on the emotions of their owner, and while it may seem like I have an unfriendly dog it's probably best that she scares people's kids off most the time because if not for that buffer, those kids would get told about all the things that are wrong with their behavior in unfriendly terms and dogs would get the same thing except with body language and ultimately physical contact from boot to dog should the dog's activities include aggression or urine on my stuff.
You're wrong, my friend, and I'm sure the anger you're expressing is coming out because you've had past experience with trying to exercise your option to be a jerk and being told what's what. The world isn't going to change, I'm not going to change and if you're not going to change you should take pains to be off by yourself.
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This reminds me of setting up my raft at Rockport earlier this year, going to park my car and coming back to some idiot standing there watching this pack of kids he was tending going through my stuff in my raft, messing with the mooring lines, looking in my bags. I yelled out, "Hey, what the hell??!" and they just sort of meandered away with no apology or any other words uttered. Unfortunately the truth is that a lot of people who take their kids outdoors for recreation are not responsible parents. From what I've seen, the kids get the idea that being away from civilization means that they can act like little jerks and the parents then let them.
It's nice that I have my dog around when I fish, not only because she's fun to have around but because she watches my back and growls at anybody that comes near. It's true that a dog keys in on the emotions of their owner, and while it may seem like I have an unfriendly dog it's probably best that she scares people's kids off most the time because if not for that buffer, those kids would get told about all the things that are wrong with their behavior in unfriendly terms and dogs would get the same thing except with body language and ultimately physical contact from boot to dog should the dog's activities include aggression or urine on my stuff.
You're wrong, my friend, and I'm sure the anger you're expressing is coming out because you've had past experience with trying to exercise your option to be a jerk and being told what's what. The world isn't going to change, I'm not going to change and if you're not going to change you should take pains to be off by yourself.
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