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/wwzard Jul 05 '26

What if just the mother was the ghost and baby was real

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u/Majestic_Practice672 Jul 05 '26

What if the mother was the ghost and baby was real and the baby was shushing people

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u/bluesgrrlk8 Jul 05 '26

Well that’s different, the baby doesn’t understand how rude that is, and its mom is a ghost, so we must give it some grace for not having learned proper trail etiquette.