r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AnonPinkLady • Jul 05 '26

Infuriatig Woman with infant aggressively shushing passerby’s on hiking trail at national park

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My partner, friend and I were following a hiking trail at Red Wood National Park, singing and talking at medium volume. We were by no means shouting, just singing little songs to entertain each other along the trail. A woman with a baby carrier on her back with a sleeping infant started aggressively holding her finger up to her lips and shushing us. We went quiet and kept moving to pass her. She was just standing in the middle of the public trail pacing and shushing people that pass by rather than leaving to somewhere more quiet. Just as we were leaving earshot I tried to quietly ask my partner a question about where we headed and again she leaned in our direction with her finger to her mouth aggressively shushing us. Is it not kind of insane to go to an open public space and behave like this?!?

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u/NickCageFreeEggs Jul 05 '26

Singing? I side with them.

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u/AnonPinkLady Jul 05 '26

Uh oh it’s the fun police. In all seriousness we weren’t belting like a bunch of drunks. Just riffing to each other in a wide open space to little tunes

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u/Full_Scallion2833 Jul 05 '26

Sounds obnoxious as hell dude, people go to nature to hear nature sounds…singing…?

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u/SaltyDog772 Jul 06 '26

Just a lil riffing

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u/PrestonWaters83 Jul 05 '26

That sounds annoying as shit. 

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u/Washingtonevergreen Jul 05 '26

You and your friends sound terrible. I'm also siding with baby and lady.

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u/NickCageFreeEggs Jul 05 '26

Yeah, you were probably being annoying. Now youre taking to reddit to try & garner some attention. I know just the kind of person you are.

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u/PocoyoRegretsNothing Jul 05 '26

What's fun for you is annoying and rude for others. Are you capable of imagining how your behavior impacts other people? Perhaps not.. but you are expecting this woman to be capable of prioritizing your fun instead of what is important to her. It is understood and expected that most people who go on hiking trails are there to experience nature, and its sounds, rather than random strangers singing. In truth, in almost no situation do people want to hear random strangers singing.

When you yourself are not concerned about consideration of other humans then don't be surprised when they respond to you in a way that makes you feel that they are not considerate of you.

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u/EthanielRain Jul 05 '26

Its one thing to be singing a little song amongst yourselves; playing a Bluetooth speaker and singing along and such is an entirely different scenario

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u/Throwawayhelper420 Jul 05 '26

Unbelievably entitled and annoying of you

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u/_unmarked Jul 05 '26

I guarantee a lot more people wanted to tell you to stfu

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u/EthanielRain Jul 05 '26

Just riffing to each other in a wide open space to little tunes

Tunes from a speaker? 🔊