Ranting

[fionabell]

Here it is.

I was going for a run in this forest and i was sitting down after the hill. A man with a dog came and started talking to me. Anyway he turned into a bit of a ranter. I just couldn't get away and subsequently got verbally raped.

He had anger in him so that I felt threatened even though I knew he was really just a gentle and disturbed person.

Anyway it decimated the positiveness of my run.

I've analyzed it and I think what the problem was that he didn't have any wit. He made mirthless cynical jokes and laughed manically but they weren't funny.

I lived next door to an old mercenary once who used to rant a bit but he had a lot of very dark and disturbing experiences to relate and he was funny. My uncle too is a great ranter. He's got a lot of charm and charisma though, so you can restrain yourself from physically fleeing.

Well that's my rant. 

[Felix]

I've had runins with people like this on public transit before. It can totally change the mood of things and how the day goes. Hope the next ranter you run into is clever.

[Constance]

One day, I was on my bike to a local public library that I just love to visit. As I was locking my bike up, I was asked about parking restrictions by somebody who'd just come out of the library. I pointed out that as a bicyclist, I didn't really know all that much about the car parking regulations of this particular city.

I was then treated to a diatribe about how unhelpful people around here can be.

Seriously? Why ask a bicyclist about rules for parking a car? Anyway, it put a damper on my whole afternoon.

[Felix]

One day, I was on my bike to a local public library that I just love to visit. As I was locking my bike up, I was asked about parking restrictions by somebody who'd just come out of the library. I pointed out that as a bicyclist, I didn't really know all that much about the car parking regulations of this particular city.

I was then treated to a diatribe about how unhelpful people around here can be.

Seriously? Why ask a bicyclist about rules for parking a car? Anyway, it put a damper on my whole afternoon.

On boxing day I was walking down the sidewalk with my daughter, and a guy yelled at me from a car in the intersection, asking directions to Forest Grove. I had no clue so I said sorry I don't know, and lol I got the same kind of diatribe. It's really weird when people get angry about that kind of thing.

[fionabell]

I think I'm disturbed by how disturbed he was. I've also worked out that since he's a regular on my running route that it has made my positive hard working place into one of social edginess.

He didn't verbally attack me on anything, yet I feel very much as though he did. My belly aches now too. Curse my over sensitive nature!

[Constance]

I think I'm disturbed by how disturbed he was. I've also worked out that since he's a regular on my running route that it has made my positive hard working place into one of social edginess.

He didn't verbally attack me on anything, yet I feel very much as though he did. My belly aches now too. Curse my over sensitive nature!

It's a very invasive thing. And I guess it could be argued that some folks can't help such things. But knowing that doesn't make it any easier to be on the receiving end of these unwarranted rants.

[fionabell]

[Sweet Blue Girl]

i think the only way you  can calm down a ranter is ranting about anything else too.

For example next time you walk in the park, and some maniac tries to say silly things about the wind and the stars and the government and the rain or whatever his paranoic mind leads him to say, just tell him few disarticolated words like "if butterflies had a tail then you could see giant pink rats flying in the sunset", this could stop him.

Ok
Sorry
I am just ranting