OK - Sorry about this - after this I'm not going to talk about this anymore - I'm just clearing my brain space, this is interfering with sleeping now. I will share any creative acts of riposte with you but only if they are funny enough.
I will not be persecuted for having a broken nervous system.
I will not be persecuted for having an extreme startle reflex.
I will not be persecuted by complete strangers because of gossip, lies & half truths.
I have downloaded poster making & photo editing software with which to enjoy humiliating gossip perps humorously.
This is us - we are good people, we are under control. These 2 guys are literally the biggest loves of my life & they are really really old now.
So I've had 2 incidents of abuse & bullying from strangers in 2 weeks from, I think, the same 'group' - last time this happened was in 2016/2017 when I had complete strangers gesticulating & shouting at me from their windows for passing on the pavement & other complete strangers telling me that "we know where you live".
Last time, the Community Police stepped in on my behalf & the weird attacks subsided. So now a new group have picked up the idea that I am being a huge problem to the community, that I should not be allowed to have dogs, that my dogs should be put down. This is what is being said to my face.
Well, go fuck yourself.
I will not bother the Community Police this time as I am not as ill now as I was in 2016 - I am not scared of any of you, not in the least.
We have a reaction to dogs we do not know & we have also have some dogs we don't get on with, which I believe is normal.
That is to say - we bark - Connor lunges at Dylan, that's our startle reflex, that's it, if the dogs get a chilled minute to look & sniff the air then all will go well, your dog is now known to us & next time will be significantly better, most likely a non event.
Completely separate from the aforementioned bullying, I had an incredibly ignorant couple, LockDown dog owners, abuse me in the street in February because I asked for space because my dogs were reacting as they approached at speed. They ignored all my requests to give me some space, which I then described as 'stupid' - the vicious shouting abusive man then completely invaded my physical space pressing himself up against me - no mask - spitting saliva in my face calling my dogs vicious as he spat - his thigh right next to Connors muzzled face, who did not react one iota, demonstrating who the actual dumb animal was in the situation.
Asshole. Entitled public school misogynistic asshole. Inherited wealth does seem to rot your basic capacity for humanity doesn't it...... but perhaps that's a whole other blog piece.
We are under tight control & nobody else is at any risk.
I might get shaken around & my nerves take a battering but nobody else is at any risk.
I walk for 3 or 4 miles a day, every day, all year round, in all weathers for mental health reasons.
I maintain full control over my elderly male collies at all times.
I see no-one for 99.5% of the time so forgive us if we are startled when we do but throughout the whole of that time we are fully ready for the .5% of the time when we might see someone.
This is my Commitment to the Community
Dogs bark. Get over it.
People can be Assholes. I'll get over it.
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