I was oot for a walk today with my 20 month old son and our two dogs. We regularly walk along a public path beside a lovely pond just out of town where there is a poo bin on account of how there are lots of people who walk thier dogs down the aforementioned path. So we're all walky along nicey nicey and then there is a fella up ahead walking a huge pulsating blubbey mound of black labrador that's about the same size as a mini metro. Dog craps out what can only be described as a "small mountain of eggs" right in the middle of the path. Fella (about mebbe 45 years old) ignores this festering pile of faeces and walks on. With him being well within earshot I shout "How, marra is thou gonna pick up that shite thy dug's left?" (I revert back to my roots and become a council-estate child when i'm pissed off.) Fellow mutters something to me and carries on walking.
At that point, my son, who is 20 months old, steps in the pile o' poo. And I see red. I grab a poo bag from my utility vest (long story, I have a medical condition requiring I carry lots of...stuff) grab a handful of the shit, run up to the fella and rub the cack all over his coat. Naturally chappie is quite irate at this and harsh language and pushing ensues. This culminates in angry shite-monger taking a swing at justifiably furious father. Utilising a self defence technique I learned at self denfense class, I avoid the blow, and restrain angry chap until he calms down. This took quite some time as I was calling him names and abusing him for being dirty and suchlike. Eventually I left him go with a clip around the ear and told him to be more considerate in future.
So was I behaving unreasonably when i gave him a taste of his own medicine?
It should be noted that my 20 month old son did not see ANY of this becuase he was blindfolded at the time due to a medical procedure he's had done earlier in the week.