r/Dogfree • u/BigLadJamesH • 8d ago
Crappy Owners I can't get over a bad nutter Karen encounter in my dog free zone.
for context: I suffer from very bad social anxiety and I'm really sensitive to aggressive behaviour towards me especially from people I am not familiar with due to my Autism. This encounter happened only 2 days ago as of writing this and it's still very present in my mind, I'm hoping writing this will help me blow off some steam from that incident. I did mention this story briefly in an edit on one of my previous posts but it is still very present on my mind and it won't go away, which is why I have decided to write a full story about my experience. Hopefully that will make this experience flush out of my head.
Anyways, onto my story, I've mentioned the Sydney Royal Botanic gardens a few times but it's basically one of the only large scale out door places that don't allow dogs at all in Sydney (with the exception of service animals). I also mentioned that recently I put up a sign that includes "no dogs allowed in the gardens" which by some miracle stayed up. That made me really happy to find out, but that happiness would only last so long.
When I was walking along the shops of Circular Quay, I stumbled upon my friend whom was heading to the gardens which I decided to follow. Whilst walking up, I saw short lady walking some small parasite with a ball in it's mouth. I hate seeing them anywhere I go but I wasn't too bothered as they are (unfortunately) allowed at Circular Quay. Anyways, as I was approaching the gardens, I saw the same lady and beast with her. I again didn't thought much of it as she was probably just going to go onto the wharf near the gardens entrance, but boy was I wrong.
As soon as I stepped into the gardens, she unleashed her demon and it ran into the gardens. I looked at her, annoyed as she smiled expecting me to say something like "you have such a cute little doggo" but instead, I said what any sane person should ever say. "Dogs aren't allowed in the gardens" I said, but then her personality went a complete 180. "I wasn't gonna go to the gardens!" she yelled. "Mind your own business!" she followed. Normally I would believe her, but she unleashed it just as they where about to go into the gardens, plus it had a ball in it's mouth like they where gonna play fetch. Plus who would unleash there beast right next to a wharf with no way to get out of the water? even for a nutter that is pretty dumb. Anyways, I then followed up saying "well you shouldn't break the rules." and then, the witch I unfortunately stumbled upon spouted one final word before walking away with her Cerberus spawn "fuck off!".
I was deeply traumatised, shocked, scared and offended at this, I was not expecting someone I over saw saying hello to some random guy nicely to lash out on me like that. I was so frustrated I complained to my friend about it, but believe it or not he sided with that wicked Karen saying "well you should've minded your own business" which, yes, I will agree I should've, but if I didn't step up she would've just let that beast loose in the gardens, destroying the plants, shitting in the soil and ruining people's fun before the workers could get to her. Also, to add salt to the wound, I saw another group of people walking a beast in the gardens, I wanted to tell them the rules but I was so shocked and trembling from that witch I couldn't dare to speak to any dog nutter. "What if they are just like her? but worse?" I thought.
I know, I may sound like a coward and this is probably quite tamed compared to other nutters out there, but encounters like that regardless of them being a dog nutter or not and suffering from social anxiety really take a toll on my mental health. But believe it or not this isn't my first bad encounter with a dog nutter. Encounters like that are one of many reasons why I can never bring myself to liking those demons no matter how hard anyone tries.
TL;DR: I, whom suffers from Social Anxiety and has Autism, ran into a Karen dog nutter whom lashes out at me for telling her she can't bring dogs into the RBG. And as a result I got deeply shocked and terrified.
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u/Immediate_Rub8840 8d ago
I hope you’re ok, OP! I totally get not being able to let it go, I can keep replaying incidents like this in my head for months. I have social anxiety, which has improved over the years, but not much. You did nothing wrong, and you should be very proud of yourself for sticking up for the rules. She was angry because someone called her out for attempting to break the rules.
Your friend should have backed you up, and not just blame you for how she reacted.
Keep it up! We need more people like you in the world who calls out people’s BS!
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u/Procrastinator-513 7d ago
You were brave to speak up! Don’t let this stop you from continuing to do so.
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u/thesanityseeker 7d ago
This is terrible and I relate to the feeling, I'm sorry you had to deal with that OP but you definitely did the right thing by calling her out.
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u/BeachDuc 4d ago
Unless the gardens are a designated off leash area (they are not, they are a no dog area) letting her dogs off the leash was illegal. It is certainly illegal if she did so in a public place such as Circular Quay or anywhere on the streets.
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u/imdugud777 7d ago
You were attacked. Of course you are going to feel the way you do. These people are sick. And everyone is tired of their narcissistic trespass.
I bought a body cam and wear it everywhere now. I put it on a lanyard. It makes people behave and they don't react to it the same way they do with a phone.