Lucky13,
Well Sir, there have been, are now, and always will be, people who "skip by" the COMMON SENSE table when they're born. They walk right on by it. You see, it appears that without seeing or hearing "their side" of the story and, reading yours, that they don't know how to use a "common sense" approach and calmly walk up to you and DISCUSS what kind of issue they have with you and your dog.
If they'd have walked up to you and simply asked you about your operations with your dog, and if they'd like it be changed, then maybe you might have accommodated them, and then again you might have said, I'm following the rules and, I don't see the problem. So, people will be people and simply don't know how to be normal.
Scott