Odd Experience While Camping - Lesson Learned
I thought I would share a recent experience I had while camping with my boys on a Father and Son's trip. A few weekends back, I took my pre-teen boys camping while my wife was away. The morning afte...
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winnietrey wrote:
I am 100% behind your decision to want family time alone without a stranger.
I suspect what you ran into was an extremely lonely old man. May have just lost his wife kids may live far away. He may have been well aware he was being pushy, but his loneliness overcame that.
Or he could have been a crazy axe murderer, who knows but I suspect the former.
30 years ago, used to dread mowing the lawn, as the widowed old guy next door, would always want to come out and chat. Then I got old and widowed now I understand
Great insight. I work hard to try and see things from the other person's perspective, and hence why, in hindsight, I humored him longer than I should have in the first encounter, setting the stage for the next two run-ins. I am 99.5% sure he was not the axe wielding murderer type either, but the departure from social norms was enough to raise a few hairs and put me on alert.
Who knows, maybe he found a homely woman to bother and that's when he left me alone...
