Entitled nutjob
Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianI woke up very early this morning and could not get back to sleep after much tossing and turning, plus at some point I no longer felt sleepy, so I decided to get up and recommence my old routine (getting up at or around 3 AM for a morning walk).
I thought I going to avoid people like I used to, but, after some time at the track, a runner showed up. She began to run in the lane I was walking in, running around and rather close to me with each lap, despite the six other empty lanes. I yelled and cursed at her, but she continued. I walked closer to the right edge of my lane, and she started running around me on the left side, nearly on the field's artificial grass. I pulled garbage cans from the field into my lane, but she continued.
At some point, she seemed to take a break, walking in a far lane. As I walked by, she apologized for ruining my walk and said that she had been "in the zone." Yet somehow she'd managed to run around me and the garbage cans without a collision on every lap. I told her that she was full of shit, that she had seen me, and I kept walking. A short time later, she was doing the same thing, although she gave me a wider berth this time. Entitled nutjob. I found one of the garbage cans pulled back onto the field and I pulled it back into the lane. After quite a few more laps, which she ran at least sometimes in the lane next to me rather than in my lane, she finally left. She'd disrupted my study time, made me afraid for my physical safety, and put me in a foul mood.
This is a good example of what I mean when I say that people here are self-centered. One might counter that there will always be isolated incidents such as this whether a given society is broadly made up of self-centered individuals or not.
It's now ten-thirty AM and someone is blasting music.
I thought I going to avoid people like I used to, but, after some time at the track, a runner showed up. She began to run in the lane I was walking in, running around and rather close to me with each lap, despite the six other empty lanes. I yelled and cursed at her, but she continued. I walked closer to the right edge of my lane, and she started running around me on the left side, nearly on the field's artificial grass. I pulled garbage cans from the field into my lane, but she continued.
At some point, she seemed to take a break, walking in a far lane. As I walked by, she apologized for ruining my walk and said that she had been "in the zone." Yet somehow she'd managed to run around me and the garbage cans without a collision on every lap. I told her that she was full of shit, that she had seen me, and I kept walking. A short time later, she was doing the same thing, although she gave me a wider berth this time. Entitled nutjob. I found one of the garbage cans pulled back onto the field and I pulled it back into the lane. After quite a few more laps, which she ran at least sometimes in the lane next to me rather than in my lane, she finally left. She'd disrupted my study time, made me afraid for my physical safety, and put me in a foul mood.
This is a good example of what I mean when I say that people here are self-centered. One might counter that there will always be isolated incidents such as this whether a given society is broadly made up of self-centered individuals or not.
It's now ten-thirty AM and someone is blasting music.
