Don’t discount the entertainment value of a bell. Some of the best angry small man responses I’ve seen were from er, angry small men that think you are bullying them out the way 😃😃😃
I usually ignore those giving unsolicited advice.
Sometimes I ask if they've got a piece of paper and a pen. If they say yes, I ask them to jot their name and number down. Then tell them that when I give a **** what they think, I'll give them a call.
Sometimes a quick **** Off suffices.
I was riding along a canal towpath once, saw 3 older men walking abreast in front of me in the same direction. I pinged my bell, one of them put his hands to his ears and said loudly 'arh, the bells, the bells' Quasimodo style. I told him I was just trying to be helpful. Then I called him a count (without the 'o'). Not my finest retort, but sometimes being brief does the job.
True story.
Shirly just a case of people thinking they know what is best for other people and needing to shut the hell up…
If everyone followed this excellent advise this forum would close overnight !!
Shirly just a case of people thinking they know what is best for other people and needing to shut the hell up…
If everyone followed this excellent advise this forum would close overnight !!
Quite :-), but posting something on a forum opens up your opinion or comment to others. You are inviting it.
In many of the cases discussed above you should be able to expect to mind your own business, and have good reason to tell the person sticking their nose in to jeff off.
And, or course, one person's friendly comment is another person's rude interference.
I find using a bell to warn walkers you are approaching is generally the best way to go.
Ah, but then you get "why can't you just say hello, those bells make me jump"
There are some folk who want to moan, they'll moan about the weather (either too hot or too cold, makes no difference) these are the same folk who I met on a well known descent near me, when they were complaining about the groms carving lines into the undergrowth, and commenting on how ugly they look. "But", I said, "Every ten minutes we're told kids are getting fatter and they should be out more, this is kids playing in the woods" "\Well" he Gammoned "Some one should stop it"
As some-one pointed out up there, some people want to world to conform to their arbitrary rules, and they don't mind telling anyone , whether they want to hear it or no.