Had no less than 6 people put themselves in a situation where they could be dead on the bike path today. Six. I ended up turning around early because of it. People just randomly deciding to step in front of me without looking, people walking across the path without looking, people deciding that "on your left" means "move further to the left right into my path", and in one case a guy riding his mountain bike out of the bush right onto the path in front of me. "Oh sorry". Yeah, man, sure, sorry, if I hadn't been paying close attention we'd both be bleeding.
That's obviously not counting the usual "there are four of us so we'll just walk across both sides of the pathway, it's fine because if we see someone coming towards us we can just move over and surely there's no possible way anyone could be coming from behind us", or the three separate sets of people who stop to have a conversation with someone on the other side of the path, expecting I suppose for anyone else coming in either direction to just go in between them. That's all just standard fare.
Damned nice day out but good lord people, I'm working hard to not kill any of you, give me a bit of help here.
Unrelated: there are a lot of ornery protective geese out with their goslings.
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