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?

YABU

How can you even think you were not being rude? Glad I don't have you in my life and hope I don't meet you.

It would have just been automatic for me to say thank you to someone who has done something so that you don't have to be inconvenienced.

I always said thank you when people walked on the road to let me and the buggy past. Nowadays I try to be the one walking in the road to let people past, it is a bit depressing when people ignore you. I don't expect gushing thanks but a little smile or something would be nice!

YABVU btw.

I do think that people have priority over dogs.

I always say thank you if someone holds the door, lets me in first, wait to let me through, etc and like other parents with pushchairs I get very little thank yous if I let them go first or hold the door for them. She is walking dogs, surely walking five steps to go around someone with small children is not much of an effort... that's her job, walk dogs.

I do normally say thank you but in the daze of having small kids, I didn't think it was necessary and didn't expect a sharp comment about it.

Yabvu! Wow

Wasn't the Dog walker a person?

Your last comment doesn't really do you any favours!

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

Not necessarily, she could have used a sling

OP YABU a simple thanks costs nothing.

What's your job? Pushchair pusher?!

YABU and incredibly rude. How hard is it to say "thanks", really?

Why would you not say thank you if you had manners? Also she wasn't expecting you to thank the dogs was she

"I do think that people have priority over dogs"

Sorry but she has just as much right to be using the pavement with her dogs as you do with your cumbersome pushchair. You sound a bit precious. The whole world doesn't have to revolve around the fact that you had children.

You were very rude. If you had 5 children with you would you like it if someone said to you 'You're the one with 5 kids'

You sound awful.

It's her job? (first of all, you don't know that she was a professional dog walker, maybe she just has many dogs). So if you were a nanny and pushing the buggy was your job, then it would have been ok for you to walk around her?

I like the sound of that dog walker. She sounds like a nice dog walker. Not like the dog walker who lets their hootch shit in front of my gate. When I stood in dog shit in front of my gate today for about the fourth time in three months, I did not say "thank you" and will not be saying thank you to the fucker who lets the dog crap in front of our house.

YABU OP, you should have said "thanks" to the nice dog walker.

Wow, now your just being silly. Grow up.

oh i love these.

Aibu? yes. No i'm not.

YABU

I have small kids as well and would still manage to break through the 'haze' to show a bit of common courtesy because someone moved for me. You are quite full of your own self importance aren't you?

I have more children than you, does that mean that if you moved out of my way (not that you would by the sound of it) I shouldn't thank you because its to be expected.

Wow, I don't think I've ever said this on this page before YABU!!!! She moved out of your way and you not only didn't thank her, you were rude into the bargain.

*I do think that people have priority over dogs.

Was she not a person?

She is not second class because she was walking dogs. She was polite by moving. You were not polite when you didn't say thank you. It really takes nothing to utter the words "thank you". It's just good manners. You are coming across as 'the world revolves around me'

YABVU and in your second post come across as very rude and unpleasant . You don't own the pavement and have no more right to priority than anybody else .

Yeah i would of said thanks or at least smiled...

Why do people ask AIBU when they have made their mind up already and just want flattery.

YABU just for that, plus the whole rudeness thing.

I would definitely have acknowledged her in someway, either with a thank you or a smile/good morning/you've got your hands full there type comment.

People should have a priority over dogs, so I would not have thanked or spoke to the dogs.

To completely blank her was very rude, and depending on how scary you look I would have probably said something to you too to remind you that manners cost nothing.