It’s a gorgeous, sunny, blue sky, green leaf, not too hot kind of day and I happily went for a run with my two dogs after work. At one point on the route we were on, the sidewalk ends and there’s a dirt path you have to go alon until you reach an intersection. That patch is rocky and as we ran along, I was looking at the ground so as not to trip when I heard, “YEAAAHHHHHH!!!! Run….!!!” right next to me, coming from a young man in an SUV driving by.
One of my dogs got so startled by the loud, obnoxious yelling that she jumped and then stopped very quickly. I almost tripped over her and took us all down. Since I was trying to not fall on my dogs, I didn’t get a look at the guy or at the car or license plate number, nor did I react fast enough to yell something back to stand up for myself. So I just fumed the rest of the run and only felt a little bit better knowing I could share my story here.
The pic to the right is of my dogs after one of our runs + swim at a lake nearby. The one in the front is the one I nearly fell over.
Argh, what if I had fallen down and hurt myself or my dog(s)?!! Not only would it be terrible, but it’d be so ironic. Anti-street harassment activist injures self and dog because of a stupid street harasser!!
– Holly
Location: Twin Branches Road, Reston, VA
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Alan says
Glad you have this outlet and glad you nor the dogs were hurt! Hope one of these days you’ll see the headline, “distracted harasser crashes into street lamp, minor property damage, huge ego damage!”
Beckie says
I’m sure the idiot drove on with no idea of the possible mess or injury he left behind. B*st*rd!