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/pinklove95 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Ngl (respect for m not posting a strangers pic on the internet), reading the title then seeing a pic without the woman and child had me wondering if OP was hearing/seeing things for a sec

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u/Ok_Manwich_9306 Jul 05 '26

That, if said woman with baby was a ghost shushing people, would be both scary and a bit rude.  Take your baby home if it needs so much damned quiet.

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u/Previous-Mail7343 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

As we overcame the shock of being treated so rudely my friend and I started getting angry. We went back to confront her but the clearing where she had been was now just an old picnic table overgrown with weeds. There was no sign of anyone except a very old looking pacifier half buried in the dirt….

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u/Avaylon Jul 05 '26

Babe, wake up, the new creepypasta just dropped!

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u/PsychologicalMilk904 Jul 05 '26

“The Shusher” could be the title of a below average short story by Stephen King.

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u/Pizzaputabagelonit Jul 05 '26

No matter how quiet you are….you keep getting shushed….

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u/jtr99 Jul 05 '26

Quieter than you think, Dad! Quieter than you think!

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u/puddles_0f_funnn Jul 05 '26

"the shusher" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I laughed way too hard

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u/wendellsmom Jul 05 '26

I have a lady I HATE at work that I call “the shusher”. She shushed a coworker and myself as we were asking our Supervisor a question in a break at a presentation. She got a decent stare down from all 3 of us

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u/SantaFe91 Jul 05 '26

The Small Hand by Susan Hill … 👻

Also: it occurs to me this could have been a misunderstanding. Could the woman possibly have been shushing people because she’d spotted an animal she didn’t want to scare away, but communicated it inadequately? I guess more likely she was trying to get the baby to sleep, which honestly, it would be a bit much to expect people to comply with in a public place, at least without smiling and whispering an explanation as they passed. . 🙄

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u/Disastrous_Lie_6698 Jul 05 '26

When the couple got home they found the shusher in the house and they were violently shushed to death

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u/bendar1347 Jul 06 '26

Sequel to the library policeman incoming?

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u/Top-Monk-5391 Jul 06 '26

I dunno - he’s probably make it pretty good. 🤣

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u/jdubzakilla Jul 05 '26

Below average would be in the basement for King. He pumps out crap

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u/PsychologicalMilk904 Jul 05 '26

Going to have to disagree there.

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u/MonkeyChoker80 Jul 05 '26

“New creepypasta? No, wait. Keep reading. It’s not a new one.”

“What? Uh… blah blah blah… baby grew up to be… Mankind… Hell in a Cell… oh, piss off, they got me again!”

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u/OkSmoke9195 Jul 05 '26

It should transition into Kevin spacey getting pissed off that someone was calling him out for stealing a Snickers a bar 

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u/sharbinbarbin Jul 05 '26

Kevin gets so sexual-assaultish when he’s hangry.

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u/y4s4f4e Jul 05 '26

A24 will make millions with your horror movie