Quick back story, I've been friends with this girl for over 5 years and we are definitely best friends. She goes to College over 500 miles away and is only home for holidays/family stuff. She calls me up this morning asking if I want to go to a nearby park and play/walk her dog with her. It's before the bowl games so I tell her it sounds good.
We decide to go to the park near the local cross country ski trails (f\*g skiing). We get there and she puts the dog on a leash and we start walking (a few hundred yards) towards the park. Snow is maybe 8 inches deep but this park has a baseball diamond, swings, playground equipment, picnic tables and other park stuff. As we're going there's erratic honking from the parking lot, we look back but figure it's some old woman honking because she sees someone she knows. A few seconds later someone from the parking lot starts shouting "Hey, you guys can't do that, you can't walk on the trails." We turn around, I'm thinking wtf is this guy yelling for.... he yells, "You can't have dogs either." This is about 50 yards away and I shout back, "We're going to the park, we aren't walking on trails." He replies, "you aren't allowed here with that dog." I shout, "we're going to the park."
Me and the girl turn around and continue walking.... I can start hearing the crunching of snow of someone running... it gets closer. I turn around and stare at him, he stops about 5 yards away with a cell phone in his hand. He says sternly, "You can't be here you have to leave" I say, "We're walking the dog." Convo goes on for maybe half a minute and I'm getting pissed off. He's saying stuff about trespassing (because it's private property and we didn't have trail passes and vandalizing." I walk up and get in his face maybe 6 inches, he doesn't move and I start cocking off.... as I said, I'm pissed off because we're going to play with a dog and be at least 100 yards from any ski trails. He's easily in his 50s and I'm taunting him to try and get me to leave. He says he'll call the police and of course my reply is something to the effect of "the police won't fucken give a shit."
My arms are still at my sides but the girl tries to pull my arm..... this is honestly the stupidest thing anyone can do if there's a chance of a fight. If he wanted to he could have gotten a good punch in since I was off balance and only had one arm. I pulled my arm away and then did the facial flinch -- tighten your face and thurst your head forward a couple inches. He stepped back but the girl grabbed my shoulder and pulled back. I turned to look at her and had a pissed off look on my face. Buddy does a nervous chuckle and says something like, "I don't want him to hurt you so I'll leave." He starts walking and I keep chirping... can't remember what I was saying... if you've been in situations like this before your memory gives out on you and details of wording are vague. I remember him saying something about what a good husband or boyfriend I must be and I said something like, "We're friends but seeing how big a co.cksuck.er you are it's closer than you've ever been to a girl. I then spit in front of him as I was in fight mode and wanted to swing.
Anti-climatic ending but as the title of the thread says, 'almost got in a fight today.'
We went to play with a dog, he's an 8 years old golden retriever and is one of those dogs that doesn't chase after things, isn't bothered by other dogs, doesn't bark.... just a good dog that still enjoys to play. If the guy would have shouted and asked if he could have a quick word with us and explained the rules, listened to our side etc. it might have ended differently. In the summer time the ski trails are used as bike trails and there's always people walking/running/playing with dogs on nice days.
We decide to go to the park near the local cross country ski trails (f\*g skiing). We get there and she puts the dog on a leash and we start walking (a few hundred yards) towards the park. Snow is maybe 8 inches deep but this park has a baseball diamond, swings, playground equipment, picnic tables and other park stuff. As we're going there's erratic honking from the parking lot, we look back but figure it's some old woman honking because she sees someone she knows. A few seconds later someone from the parking lot starts shouting "Hey, you guys can't do that, you can't walk on the trails." We turn around, I'm thinking wtf is this guy yelling for.... he yells, "You can't have dogs either." This is about 50 yards away and I shout back, "We're going to the park, we aren't walking on trails." He replies, "you aren't allowed here with that dog." I shout, "we're going to the park."
Me and the girl turn around and continue walking.... I can start hearing the crunching of snow of someone running... it gets closer. I turn around and stare at him, he stops about 5 yards away with a cell phone in his hand. He says sternly, "You can't be here you have to leave" I say, "We're walking the dog." Convo goes on for maybe half a minute and I'm getting pissed off. He's saying stuff about trespassing (because it's private property and we didn't have trail passes and vandalizing." I walk up and get in his face maybe 6 inches, he doesn't move and I start cocking off.... as I said, I'm pissed off because we're going to play with a dog and be at least 100 yards from any ski trails. He's easily in his 50s and I'm taunting him to try and get me to leave. He says he'll call the police and of course my reply is something to the effect of "the police won't fucken give a shit."
My arms are still at my sides but the girl tries to pull my arm..... this is honestly the stupidest thing anyone can do if there's a chance of a fight. If he wanted to he could have gotten a good punch in since I was off balance and only had one arm. I pulled my arm away and then did the facial flinch -- tighten your face and thurst your head forward a couple inches. He stepped back but the girl grabbed my shoulder and pulled back. I turned to look at her and had a pissed off look on my face. Buddy does a nervous chuckle and says something like, "I don't want him to hurt you so I'll leave." He starts walking and I keep chirping... can't remember what I was saying... if you've been in situations like this before your memory gives out on you and details of wording are vague. I remember him saying something about what a good husband or boyfriend I must be and I said something like, "We're friends but seeing how big a co.cksuck.er you are it's closer than you've ever been to a girl. I then spit in front of him as I was in fight mode and wanted to swing.
Anti-climatic ending but as the title of the thread says, 'almost got in a fight today.'
We went to play with a dog, he's an 8 years old golden retriever and is one of those dogs that doesn't chase after things, isn't bothered by other dogs, doesn't bark.... just a good dog that still enjoys to play. If the guy would have shouted and asked if he could have a quick word with us and explained the rules, listened to our side etc. it might have ended differently. In the summer time the ski trails are used as bike trails and there's always people walking/running/playing with dogs on nice days.