Dear lady walking around the lake with your delightful toddlers

[Dogsaresomucheasier]

You know when there is a bit of a pile on here where someone mentions sexism and everyone else insists their partner would never dream of xyz?

I’d really like to think you’ve had a word with yours!

My dog stopped to relieve himself while on our walk. I would never dream of doing anything other than picking up his waste and I can manage that without an audience.

I’m 5ft and female walking a breed of dog typically thought of as a good family pet. If you or your partner are labouring under the delusion he would have stopped to supervise a man and make sure he was a responsible dog owner, or remark,
”good choice” when I turned out to be so and he missed out on his civilian law enforcement moment, I rather suspect you are mistaken.

NAMALT-but yours is!

Yes this has been bugging me since it happened, yes I probably do need to get a life!

Hi OP...not a cryptic post at all......I agree with you. I admire your restraint!

I hope he dosen't have a cat or 2...as it seems to be fine for cats to crap / spray in gardens.

Why would he have to be under 5 feet for her height to be relevant?

He could well have been 5ft 3" for all we know. That extra 3 inches is hardly going to make her feel 'intimidated' is it?

Either way, if the OP was clear rather than full of cringeworthy creative writing nonsense, we'd all be a bit wiser.

This happened to me, but not sexist, as the Civic Duty Self-appointee was female.

She got quite bolshy when I responded by affecting a look of deep concern & asking her if she'd washed her hands after using the loo today.
When she'd spluttered for long enough, I explained that I thought it must be National Monitor Other Adult's Hygiene Day, due to her accosting a dogowner who already had a poobag in her hand.

YABU to take to task a woman for her partner's shitty behaviour.
Why didn't you say it to him or at least "I don't need an audience, thanks!"?

It is a bit weird to complain about sexism by being sexist. What’s with all the dear ladies and delightful toddlers, and good family pets? It’s hard to keep track of who was supposed to have the toddlers with them at the time, the short-arse with the family pet or the man who thought the dog owner made a “good choice.” Maybe the comment was made for the benefit of the mysterious toddlers, whoever they belonged to. Probably would have been better just to stick with saying you met with a patronising twerp and his other half whilst out walking your dog and you don’t believe he would have tried to patronise you if you had been a 6’2” body builder with a rottweiler.

Well I understood the post perfectly - perhaps the fact the toddler was delightful is irrelevant or maybe op was trying to show that she wasn't judging the family as a whole, either way just discount things you don't find relevant. Anyone with basic reading comprehension can do that, but personally I can see the relevance of the height even if you can't!

The only part I don't really understand is why the wife was the one being addressed. Doesn't inhibit understanding of the scenario though!

I too eyeball dog owners who look like they could conveniently “ Not see” a poo-
Simply as owners DO conveniently ignore a pooing dog unless they see they are being watched-

I am a dog owner, and HAVE. Been called out many years ago before poo bags were a thing.

Nowadays, there is no excuse.

OP, just be grateful that the twat of a man is not yours to keep and deal with everyday.

That poor woman!

What? This makes absolutely no sense at all.

So you’re complaining about a man patronising you by writing a patronising post on here to his partner? Eh? Hypocritical much.

So we still don’t know if he was referring to pooper scooping or breed of dog?

It honestly wasn't hard to understand?

I mean, it was a bit hard to understand TBF. I didn’t understand it till later posts did the summary. I’m honestly not thick.

Are you saying your dog done a poo and some man watched you clean it up.. then said 'good job' ?

and you're addressing this post to the lady with him...totally 😕

No, he said good choice not good job so he could have been referring to her dog breed, who knows, OP hasn’t come back to clarify.🤷‍♀️

My dog stopped to relieve himself while on our walk. I would never dream of doing anything other than picking up his waste and I can manage that without an audience.
Okay, following it so far. Waiting to see what the lady with the toddlers does.

I’m 5ft and female walking a breed of dog typically thought of as a good family pet.
Now I’m distracted by OP’s height and whether it’s a golden retriever. Still waiting to find out what the toddlers did.

If you or your partner are labouring under the delusion he would have stopped to supervise a man and make sure he was a responsible dog owner, or remark,
”good choice” when I turned out to be so and he missed out on his civilian law enforcement moment, I rather suspect you are mistaken.
This is a long paragraph - I’ve forgotten who OP is addressing and I actually haven’t grasped that there is a man with the woman with the toddlers. “Good choice” has distracted me again - is this about dog poo now? Or not jumping up on the toddlers? Or something else? Civilian law enforcement moment? That’s witty, I get that. ‘ I rather suspect you are mistaken’. Who are we talking to now? Me? What happened? What did the toddlers do? Eh?

Anyway, that’s why I was confused. Sorry OP, I think you’re in the right but I’m just getting annoyed that people are saying your post was perfectly easy to understand. I don’t think it was.

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Why are you blaming the woman for rhe mans behaviour. This is just odd and then to follow it uo by saying she should not have more kids with him as he shouldn’t be allowed to breed?

why didn’t you just write a thread saying im pissed off sone bloke said good choice to me when I picked up my dogs poop and it’s annoyed me.

Anyway, that’s why I was confused. Sorry OP, I think you’re in the right but I’m just getting annoyed that people are saying your post was perfectly easy to understand. I don’t think it was.

I suppose this shows how people simply process information differently. I'm one of those who's mind frequently wanders so can be forgetful of what I've read or what I'm saying at the time however I didn't get distracted by the points you mention on this occasion

I can understand why the OP included it. If she’d been a 5’11 woman walking a pit bull it does change it from a 5ft woman walking a cavapoo or something.

I'm autistic (high functioning but communication can be a problem when people aren't clear) so often have problem with nuance, sarcasm, etc. But even without nuance and sarcasm, I really genuinely couldn't understand what she was saying. And I don't rely on others to 'explain' it because they're probably wrong too, so I only rely on an OP explaining it.

Sorry to have confused some of you! I was addressing the lady of the family for a few reasons; firstly with a sense of irony, in a “sort ‘I’m out, love!” sort of way.

Secondly because so many women on here claim to have partners who are enlightened yet here was a family unit where daddy, and someone’s dh, was objectionably sexist without a second thought. He, and quite possibly she, honestly thought it was an okay thing to say and do. (He was quite definitely referencing the dog shit and saw me as someone he could intimidate without getting thumped/bitten hence the reference to height and dog breed. (Cocker spaniel btw.)

I’ve already acknowledged I should have said something at the time and will save some of the fabulous responses on here in case there is a next time.

I still don't understand what happened. You went on a dog walk. You saw a woman at the lake with toddlers. You then mentioned a man, I gather her partner? What happened? Your dog pooped and they told you off for not picking it up and said your dog was too tall?

Sorry to have confused some of you! I was addressing the lady of the family for a few reasons; firstly with a sense of irony, in a “sort ‘I’m out, love!” sort of way.
This is just as incomprehensible as your initial post. How very, very odd.