To never go for a walk again for the rest of my born days?

[Sheeeeeep]

Never ever ever.

Weekends and holidays will be spent doing anything that does not involve Going For A Walk.

AIBU?

@oblada

Sounds like a great idea OP! The less people out and about walking, the more enjoyable it will be for the rest to go on lovely walks :) As a family we really enjoy our walks. Granted it's a bit boring at the moment to have only that to do at the week-end but it's ok. In normal times we go on walks as well as doing other activities.

I cringed at this.

Haha good for you. I cringed at your post. Goes to show we're all different!

I don't share in this 'I wish the pandemic walkers would piss off back to their living rooms and shopping centres' feeling. And I live in an area that people come to from all over the world to go walking. But tbh the more people appreciate the countryside the better. The more exercise people get the better.

Driving somewhere nice for a stroll around the countryside, or a walking tour of a new city - great.

Another bloody aimless walk from my front door down the same boring streets I’ve been plodding down for ages.....no thank you

Seriously, you cringed because after a year of lockdown someone you don’t know doesn’t want to go for walks?

You actually did?

I cringed at your post because you really can’t see how rude it is. And “lovely walks”

I’m honestly amazed at how anti social some of you are that you can’t stand the idea of someone walking within a ten foot radius of you!

Incidentally my post was intended fairly humorously. But this false tinkly little ‘oho yes OP, you trot off to your sordid little hobbies and we will keep the countryside for those pure of heart’ is awful. And I live in the bloody countryside! Hence the username.

My dog has had enough of walks. She says they are boring and wants to go to the pub.

Thank goodness. As a regular dog walker - amen to that! The park will be tranquil and peaceful once more 😃

YADNBU

Walks can fuck the fuck off

@SneezyGonzalez

Thank goodness. As a regular dog walker - amen to that! The park will be tranquil and peaceful once more 😃

I apologise that me and my horrible, nasty little pleb of a daughter have made your walks such a horrific experience

There is life beyond walks.
I feel a bit sorry for those who can’t think of anything else to do, even with everything opening up.
If you don’t miss museums, theatres, cinemas, cafes, restaurants, gyms, swimming pools, train rides, roller rinks, laser quests, zoos/safaris, theme parks, climbing walls, bowling alleys, castles, national heritage properties, art galleries, libraries........then you are one boring bugger. Don’t you at least want to get your kids out and seeing something of the world?

YANBU. I am so fed up with outdoors and nature. I just want to sit in pubs and restaurants and cinemas again.

Ha ha. The first thing we did on Monday was go on a walk in the woods! And then laughed about it. But it’s a different walk in different woods as we are on holiday! U.K. obviously but lovely to be somewhere different.

I do miss all the other things that pps have mentioned - and will be doing them - but this year hasn’t put me off being out in nature.

@likeafishneedsabike

There is life beyond walks. I feel a bit sorry for those who can’t think of anything else to do, even with everything opening up. If you don’t miss museums, theatres, cinemas, cafes, restaurants, gyms, swimming pools, train rides, roller rinks, laser quests, zoos/safaris, theme parks, climbing walls, bowling alleys, castles, national heritage properties, art galleries, libraries........then you are one boring bugger. Don’t you at least want to get your kids out and seeing something of the world?

This is a bit of a leap! Not one person has said they enjoy only walking and no other forms of entertainment. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I can't wait for theatre to reopen, to have a coffee and cake in a cafe, to visit a museum, to roam around castles etc.

I'd rather chew my own arm off than go to a lazerquest or theme park.

I'm my experience walkers are often national trust members, enjoy castles and stately homes and other outdoor pursuits.

Walking however is free and as interesting as you make it. Not everyone has the budget to do your day trips. Kids can learn loads on walks, about plants, trees, wildlife, birds, tides, countryside laws. They can build dens in the woods, go geocaching, learn to map read etc. Don't assume these children aren't being enriched as they aren't going on a rollercoaster or paying to see a sheep rather than looking at one in a field

@Sheeeeeep

Seriously, you cringed because after a year of lockdown someone you don’t know doesn’t want to go for walks?

You actually did?

I cringed at your post because you really can’t see how rude it is. And “lovely walks”

I’m honestly amazed at how anti social some of you are that you can’t stand the idea of someone walking within a ten foot radius of you!

Incidentally my post was intended fairly humorously. But this false tinkly little ‘oho yes OP, you trot off to your sordid little hobbies and we will keep the countryside for those pure of heart’ is awful. And I live in the bloody countryside! Hence the username.

My post was not rude. It was meant on jest though yes it is true that some of the places we enjoy have been a bit too busy for our liking lately. Mostly because we have one anti-social elderly dog and because I need to keep an eye on 3 lively children (easier to see if the place is quiet). You are one rude bugger and sorry to hear your walks have made you so bitter. Yes I love going on walks with my kids (and pre kids on much longer walks with the dogs). Yes they are lovely. We go to various interesting places. But they only occupy a few hours of our week-ends in normal time and we are bloody busy the rest of the week with work and millions of activities. Maybe that's why we enjoy walks

oblada I’m not rude, but tbh I am quite pissed off, not with you but with the general attitudes expressed here.

I’m not some sort of disgusting rat, who should only scurry along the city streets, but that’s how I’ve been made to feel - get out of our spaces and places.

And the second attitude - that because I lightheartedly expressed that I was sick of walks - well naturally that made you ‘cringe.’ And I don’t know why it made you cringe, unless that it is because you somehow can’t understand that after having a baby and being unable to take her to the library, or to baby swimming or baby signing or baby yoga or wiggles and giggles or whatever is on - instead being stuck with just endless walks with her - and your response was to cringe.

It’s made me feel shit. It’s made me feel like I’m Not One Of The Nice National Trust People. Like I’m the sort of twat who would throw litter around. And that when I am walking my daughter because for the first four and a half months of her life there was sod all else - others were looking at us in disgust and wishing we’d fuck off.

It’s pretty shitty, actually.

Well you're the one who responded to my comment saying it was cringeworthy. My comment was clearly in jest and I never said any of the stuff you just complained about.
Yes I found your initial post a little cringe but then I didn't say it and wouldn't have but for your own comment. Whilst I find it a bit sad I also realise we're all different. I've got 4 children and I've always loved walks and never liked the baby activities you just mentioned - a part from baby swimming maybe, a little bit but I really only did it with 1 kid - though I'll admit she loves swimming more than the others, and baby signing but again I didn't enjoy it that much but doing it now - online as you could too! - because my youngest has a syndrome which could affect her hearing. Most baby activities are cringe to me. Walks are to you. We're different.
My youngest is 9 months old so I know about having a baby during a pandemic though I expect her 11 weeks in hospital and numerous medical appointments have probably distracted me from what I may otherwise have felt she/I would be missing.

@oblada

Haha good for you. I cringed at your post. Goes to show we're all different!

No, I think you’ll find this came first. Do tell me what made you cringe. The fact Im a bit fed up of walks after months of nothing else? Go on, why did that make you cringe? I’d love to know.

It's not the walking as such.....it's the repetition and the fact that the walk was the highlight of the day. We live near a beautiful National Trust park and if you menion going there my DC retreat. I think they'd rather walk round the local industrial estate now.

@CeeceeBloomingdale ‘not everyone has the budget to do your day trips’.
My trips? Wow.
I see what OP is getting at here regarding the snobbery of some posters. You ignored everything in my list of any cultural / wholesome value and focused on two activities you consider beneath you.
Again, wow.
I take it you don’t have any children. Because obviously, if you did, you would try a range of (in budget) activities to find out what they enjoy rather than imposing only your own interests on them. It goes without saying that laser quest is not the chosen activity for adults. I actually hate it myself. However, for some kids it is active and a lot of social fun. As parents we have to tolerate some things we would not choose to do because the kids think it’s fun. Not always, but sometimes.

Haha know how you feel...but as a dog owner, the walks will continue. However at least we can go somewhere different.

Let me be clear because we are getting tied up in knots.

“The less people out and about walking, the more enjoyable it will be for the rest to go on lovely walks.”

And I cringed at that, yes. I cringed because obviously me/my DD are preventing your ‘nice’ family from enjoying ‘lovely’ walks.

And you ‘find it a bit sad.’

I do not mean what I’m about to say. It’s purely to make a point

I find it a bit sad you have four children as you clearly can’t dedicate the time or money for them but we’re all different.

I find it a bit sad you don’t like baby activities and just go for walks. How dull and repetitive for them.

See, aren’t they shitty, nasty comments that if I’d made to you I’d rightly be pulled up on. Yet it’s OK for you to say to me. Why?

But I will take my skanky self and horrible child away from your ‘lovely walks’

You seem to be misreading comments OP.
My first comment was in jest and I didn't insult you. You said it was cringe. Which is a bit rude. I said your initial post was cringe. I do find it sad for a grown adult to resent walks that much as if they're some sort of weird occupation.

As a side note many baby activities have been done online in the last few months. I've done baby signing which was pretty good I thought.

The snobbery is disgusting and they can’t even see it.

You might as well have No Blacks, No Irish, No Homosexuals on your tops as you do your lovely country walks.

And I know you’ll come back squawking and shrieking that no, because you are not racist or homophobic, are you?

You just ... don’t want people who are Not Our Sort in the countryside. No parallels with racism or homophobia, of course. No, none at all

It was cringeworthy because it was an absolutely disgusting comment and you can’t even see it.

Oh good! I’m so glad this woman and her baby are not going to be walking in the country any more because she doesn’t sound like Our Sort Of Person. She doesn’t even have a dog.

We are in a strange world where walking is wholesome and virtuous and anything else is not.

I don't mind the odd walk now and then. We live in a lovely part of the countryside and the scenery is stunning. And I do appreciate it, I really do. But once a month or so at most. And it has to end at a pub - which obviously has to be open. And preferably selling chips. Or even better, giving away dishes of roast potatoes.

So no, I have only been for few walks in the last year (maybe 6-10). I do feel a bit guilty when I see people posting on line about huge scenic walks. But enough to do anything about it? Nah. Though I should add I might do more if I had young children - mine are adult and can go by themselves if they want to!