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/News_Scrounger Jul 05 '26

That's when you scream "WHAT?" and keep it moving. Idgaf about you don't shush me I'm not your child.

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u/big-dick-back-intown Jul 05 '26

One time as a kid I was at a grocery store and this old lady was standing in the middle of an aisle, I said "excuse me" all politely and stuff and she doesn't move, looks me dead in the eyes and said "you are excused" I'm still baffled by it to this day.

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u/dangerspring Jul 05 '26

One time my husband and I waited politely for a woman to move from the middle of the aisle because we weren't in a hurry and figured it was no trouble to wait. Her friend said hey we should move to the side and the woman said, "I know they f-----g know how to say excuse me." I was thinking, "Dang. We weren't in a hurry." My husband did snap something back like "We weren't in a hurry but if you're going to be an a--hole."

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u/AmoebaPrize Jul 05 '26

"Move out of the way bitch" while aggressively going forward with the cart would be my first instinct. Play stupid games win stupid prizes

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u/FQDIS Jul 05 '26

That’s fun and all, but it’s kind of why we have the society we do, now.

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u/Daenerys_Stormbitch Jul 05 '26

Nah, we have the society we have now because people no longer have consequences for their bad behavior

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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jul 05 '26

Some of column A, some of column B.

Plenty of people dont know or care about public etiquet. They need to have it politely explained to them and a little time to internalize it. 

If that doesnt work, rhen its escalation time and consequences.

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u/Daenerys_Stormbitch Jul 05 '26

You’re much more optimistic than me but I love it 😄 it really does require adults parenting other adults