To be a bit annoyed at this dog walker

[anothercuppaplease]

I live close to a forest and lots of people walk down our road to take their dogs for a walk. This morning, I was walking on my street, pushing a double buggy, and a dog walker was coming the other way with 5 smallish dogs, all on leads. No problem there, so far...

The dog walker of her own free will decided to get off the pavement and walk around me as there was not enough space for a double buggy and 5 dogs to be on the pavement side by side - the only thing is, as she passed me, she said in a very cross voice 'THANK YOU!' ermmm so I turned around and said why should I say thank you? It's you who's got five dogs?' She was clearly upset and mumbled something which I didn't get, anyway I just walked away. Should I have said thank you, really? Did she really expect me to get off the pavement because she had dogs? Was I being rude?

Yes. You should have said thank you. Its one of those little social dances that we are supposed to do.
If we were chimps wed be picking fleas off each other, but we say thank you, please, how are you, we nod and say sorry when someone steps on our foot...
It just makes it better for us as social animals living on top of each other.
I have yet to give a shit if it's raining, or be that bothered how someone I don't know is but its just what you should do

YABU and very rude! Learn some manners!

I always say thank you when someone steps aside to let me pass on the pavement.

Yes she has 5 dogs but YOU have a double pushchair. She had just as much right to be on the pavement as you did and although it is hard to manoeuvre a double pushchair it can be difficult to stop 5 dogs and take them to the side.

YABU to not have said thank you - it doesn't take much but she was being petty to say what she said.

You´re annoyed at her for walking on the road so that you didn´t have to?

OK then...

I would have quite liked it if the woman had 5 dogs in a quadruple pushchair

Not sure why, but it would definitely give the thread that special something.

Ah but Worra, what if it was a women with 5 dogs in a quadruple pushchair?

YABU. It's common curtesy to say thank you.

As a pushchair user I say thank you if someone moves out of the way for me or holds a door open etc and I also say a loud THANKYOU to people who don't say thankyou when I move out the way for them or spend 5 minutes waiting for them to trundle through the door I'm holding open for them.

I have to say its usually other pushchair users who don't say thank you, which I find odd, surely we are all in the pushchair user sisterhood?

Gotta be a reverse AIBU, although some people get ridiculously self-important once they start procreating.

Then she'd have to steer with one hand and carry the surplus dog in the other

Tricky for all concerned

Not sure what you'd have done if you'd met me - A push chair and 4 dogs, not sure I'd have moved to the road for you but I'd thank you if you did and I'd expect the same back - Unless of course you were brought up not to know what manners are?

Rude. You not her.

Rude!

Seriously, how difficult is it to open your mouth and utter a single word?? Neither of you have right of way but she moved for you and you should have said thanks.

Rude. You, not her. and you're a PFB, which in my dictionary is not precious first born.

My mum used to take us all out with one pram.
Three smallest in the big pram. Five others holding the pram handle or holding her pocket or belt.
Can you imagine?
I'd get out of the way.

You were rude.
She didn't expect you to get off the pavement, she expected you to have some manners.

YABU, is she some sort of 2nd class citizen because she has dogs?

I have 4 and often walk them with my parents who have 2, all off lead on our local common, I've lost count of the amount of times we've called them all back, put on leads, stepped to the side, sat them down while someone on a horse walks past and doesn't bother to say thank you and yes I do shout "THANK YOU" loudly at them.

Are you as ill mannered to everyone?

It's you who have 5 dogs ?? !!
Well not only should she have moved out of you and your buggies way,
She should have curtesyed ???
Yabu
She allowed you right of way
And you didn't acknowledge her because she had dogs

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I think she was right.

It takes nothing to say thanks, does it?

From experience as the owner of several dogs, you were probably the third person that day who had not bothered to say thank you when she stepped off into the mud for you.

YABU.

I absolutely do not mind stepping out of the way with my dogs to let people past, particularly if they have small children/a pram, but it is nice when people acknowledge that you have been considerate, rather than simply assuming they have more right to be on the path anyway.

I would have said thank you.

I would have said thank you. What makes you think that you shouldn't have had to, OP? Having a buggy doesn't give you automatic right of way, you know.

Perhaps if the dogs were really small she could have unclipped their leads so that they could all dash under the buggy wheels and out the other side to be re-attached, thereby avoiding the need for anyone to step off the pavement or feel obliged to utter a tiresome 'thank you'

You were both being a bit unreasonable in my opinion. You shouldn't have shouted back at her and she shouldn't have said 'Thank You' crossly.

A thank you wouldnt have hurt you tbh.

You sound particularly unpleasant.

YABU.