There was this snotty girl blocking the sidewalk path...

Here's a tactic that's always worked for me with stationary sidewalk hogs, and is effective whether they're looking at you or not: as you get within a few steps of them, bark loudly in an alarmed tone, "Look OUT!"

If they are looking at you when you do it, simply fix your gaze at some point past them. But either way, they have no idea where the supposed danger might be - because there isn't any - and jump all over the place looking for it (sometimes gasping, "What, WHAT?") For extra satisfaction, I add a quietly polite, "Thank you" as I pass. Whatever they say as you're walking away is of no consequence.

A less aggressive tactic is one that I honed on evening walks on Hollywood Blvd. when I lived there in the '80s: if any weirdo approaching from the opposite direction looked like they were going to challenge my pedestrian space, I used the "gaze" gambit, widening my eyes and staring straight past them as though they were invisible. They have to be looking at you for this to work, but it always - sometimes to my surprise - did. 

Lucky you are not arrested for sexual harassment

Here is my anecdote:

I pulled into a drug store parking lot and noticed that a young lady was parked in a handicapped spot and talking on her cell phone. I observed that she had no handicapped plate or sticker on her vehicle. I politely walked up to her drivers side open window and calmly mentioned that she was parked in a handicapped spot. She glared at me and with nasty attitude said to me: "Well what are you gonna do about it?" To which I replied "nothing, other that to tell you that you are a ignorant and inconsiderate bitch and hope you rot in ehll"

That's because parents today, don't give a shit about properly parenting their children...


In my neighborhood, kids think they can go all over the neighborhood and do what every they want...

LIKE:... Trespassing on private property... Playing in their neighbors yard without permission... leaving their "crap" (Abandoned Bicycles & Toys) all over the neighborhood... sitting on their neighbors porch swings when they are not at home... Messing with mailboxes... ramming their "radio flyer" wagons into their neighbors cars parked on the street... kicking balls & throwing Frisbees into the sides of people's homes and cars... Playing with fireworks next to homes and parked cars... Breaking into cars...

Hell, I've even been out of my patio, and kids still insist on cutting through my property, to get to the next street, as if I am not even there... They just keep on going as if there is some invisible public sidewalk there... and when I confront them about it and tell them to stop trespassing (which is a crime), they look at me as if I am the one with the problem and they are doing nothing wrong!


But where the fuck are the parents? NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! Sometimes, they're not even at home! Kids just wandering around...


And it's not just the kids that are the problem, but adults are doing stuff now, just like that, more and more...

Even some parents are encouraging their kids to do these things too! Years ago, there was a mother who was trespassing through my property with her two kids to take them to the school bus stop!... Not a great example to teach your kids, bitch!


This is all very surprising... considering all mass school shootings, kidnappings, child molesters, Mailbox Bombs, and so on... these days...

When you have real criminals around your home trying to set fire to your grass, or steal your lawmowers... How the fuck is anyone supposed to know that these dumb criminal "Short-Cutters" didn't do these things?... Crimes are Crimes. If they committed one, they could commit more!

With all the family homes near me with little children... I'm surprised that many parents aren't sitting on their porches with shot guns and shooting any dumb shits, of any age, who illegally come onto their property, that could "endanger" their children that are just playing in their yard... After all, We have no idea what the intentions of these strangers are, until after the fact!


But I guess parents don't care about protecting their children from harm either...

life sucks.

On the one hand I salute you. I know of just the kind of person you speak. On the other hand I think, just because she was being dicky doesn't mean you have to lower to her standards.

My problem with it is this... What if, just what if, there had been a cop nearby and she yelled for him to come over. Well, technically, though you're right that she shouldn't have been a dick and taking up the whole side walk, who do you think the cop would side with? Depending on how good an actress she was you could have been looking at an assault charge. I know with my bad luck that's exactly what would happen!

Morally you may be right, but technically speaking, you escalated it by getting physical. She could legitimately claim you slammed into her for no reason, and a cop might just see it that way.

Let me give you another scenario, real quick... what if her boyfriend who is built like Arnold Schwarzennger in his prime was standing across the street and saw the whole thing. Where do you think he'd fall in the scenario? I think you might have been looking at a fight.

My point is, sometimes, it's just not worth it. Be the bigger man and step on the grass.

THIS!!!!!

Catman always carries a box of Kleenex for such a situation.