<v Speaker 1>Jerry, Katie, and Josh six one hundred. Katy came in

<v Speaker 1>this morning.

<v Speaker 2>She's like, I gotta talk about my walk yesterday.

<v Speaker 3>My run, but still I was outside getting my steps in. Well,

<v Speaker 3>it is kind of important, just because on my run

<v Speaker 3>I always go a mile out and then I turn

<v Speaker 3>around and come back that same mile. Right, so, as

<v Speaker 3>I'm reaching my mile mark running out, I came across

<v Speaker 3>this group of two ladies and they had like four

<v Speaker 3>dogs with them, right, and I was approaching them as

<v Speaker 3>They're trying to get on the path and I'm just

<v Speaker 3>about again to hit that mile mark and turn back around,

<v Speaker 3>but there are four dogs. One of them sees me

<v Speaker 3>coming and just starts barking aggressively. The closer I get,

<v Speaker 3>the louder and more frequently nat bark. I just feel

<v Speaker 3>like this dog is a little anxious, which is fine,

<v Speaker 3>I get it. I was trying to keep my distance,

<v Speaker 3>and also I was trying to stay back a little

<v Speaker 3>bit so I didn't have to pass them and then

<v Speaker 3>come back the same direction and see them again right

<v Speaker 3>exactly exactly. So I was just like trying to stay

<v Speaker 3>back and the lady looks at me and she was

<v Speaker 3>just like, well, you just go, and I was like,

<v Speaker 3>I know, and so I was like, I am actually

<v Speaker 3>just going to write there the gazebo.

<v Speaker 1>And then I'm turning around.

<v Speaker 3>That's my mile mark and she looks at me and

<v Speaker 3>I'm trying to like calm her dog. Right, So as

<v Speaker 3>I turn back around, it's getting even more aggressive at me,

<v Speaker 3>and I'm like it's okay, it's okay, it's fine. She's like,

<v Speaker 3>just go, and I was like, why I see you, lad,

<v Speaker 3>I said to her.

<v Speaker 1>I was like, now I see why your dog's so snippy.

<v Speaker 1>And I ran away.

<v Speaker 4>I ran away because she tells me just go, and

<v Speaker 4>I was just it really just struck me as people

<v Speaker 4>have absolutely no decorm anymore.

<v Speaker 1>When we're out and about.

<v Speaker 3>There's no manners, there's no how rude is absolutely right,

<v Speaker 3>like I'm mad for It got me all kinds of

<v Speaker 3>fired up.

<v Speaker 1>And the only thing that I was very dumb dog

<v Speaker 1>or was I was so jazzed. The rest of my run.

<v Speaker 1>I was like that lady.

<v Speaker 3>I did not get tired at all because I just

<v Speaker 3>kept thinking about putting fourteen.

<v Speaker 1>Stupid dug just.

<v Speaker 4>Kept no not the dog at all.

<v Speaker 3>I felt bad for that dog that that's its owner,

<v Speaker 3>because now I understand.

<v Speaker 2>It's so stupid owner worked up all the time.

<v Speaker 3>You know, I just wanted to hug that poor little puppyana. Uh,

<v Speaker 3>But it just got me thinking because I was Then

<v Speaker 3>I got on TikTok and I don't know if it's

<v Speaker 3>just because I was so irritated at somebody I saw

<v Speaker 3>out and about, but this lady popped up on TikTok

<v Speaker 3>and she started talking about Denver specifically and how nobody's

<v Speaker 3>nice anymore.

<v Speaker 1>And I really felt it. I just like, and as

<v Speaker 1>much as that right there, that's.

<v Speaker 3>More about just being nice to people when you are

<v Speaker 3>out and about and just I don't know if that's

<v Speaker 3>a Midwestern thing where I'm from. It's like, you know,

<v Speaker 3>I realized that when I'm out and about and especially

<v Speaker 3>running and walking, saying hi to every single person on

<v Speaker 3>the path is a little crazy.

<v Speaker 2>No, but I do that, like I flashed your smile

<v Speaker 2>and do it, you know, But I've noticed, Yeah, the

<v Speaker 2>reciprocation is very minimal.

<v Speaker 3>On the line, so different now and it was in

<v Speaker 3>the zone. Yeah, I did this actual Like this lady

<v Speaker 3>here went on to explain that it's been like since

<v Speaker 3>twenty eighteen, right, like that's really when the shift happened.

<v Speaker 3>And she's like, I don't know if it's the transplants

<v Speaker 3>that came to Colorado or if it's actual like Colorado

<v Speaker 3>natives who are getting fed up with having to be

<v Speaker 3>nice all the time. It's denver, especially though it is

<v Speaker 3>never but even here in laun tree.

<v Speaker 2>But for my walk sometimes too, I do like I

<v Speaker 2>do get in the zone sometimes too, and I just

<v Speaker 2>don't want to be bothered. I don't want to acknowledge anybody.

<v Speaker 2>That's kind of like my alone time, quiet time, especially

<v Speaker 2>if I'm out running, if I'm walking, I'm a little

<v Speaker 2>more apt to hey, you know one of those hey hey.

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know.

<v Speaker 2>And it's different too, I think in this lady's defense,

<v Speaker 2>if you got a pain in the arse dog, yeah,

<v Speaker 2>because I have a pain in the arse dog.

<v Speaker 1>And if we're out, she's a monster. She's a monster.

<v Speaker 2>When we go for walks, she attacks every person on

<v Speaker 2>a bike that drives bike. Like if we're letting one

<v Speaker 2>of the kids walk her and we see a bike coming,

<v Speaker 2>we're like, give me the dog, give me the dog,

<v Speaker 2>give me the dog.

<v Speaker 1>She'll go after the bike. She'll go after scooters.

<v Speaker 2>I ended up buying one of those callers that would

<v Speaker 2>buzz her and kind of you know, and I ended

<v Speaker 2>up returning it because it was it was do you

<v Speaker 2>feel bad?

<v Speaker 1>I felt bad. I was like, I'm not going to

<v Speaker 1>use this anymore. It's horrible for the dog.

<v Speaker 2>But we're like trying to figure out how to stop

<v Speaker 2>her from doing that. And it's actually quite funny because

<v Speaker 2>we put a full harness on her now, so we

<v Speaker 2>walk her with the full harness and it snaps on

<v Speaker 2>the back the leash does, so she's so small and

<v Speaker 2>so light. Nicole gets mad at me because every time

<v Speaker 2>a cyclist or somebody comes by, I can take the

<v Speaker 2>leash and I just hold her in the air because

<v Speaker 2>she's in the full harness. She's not hurting her, not

<v Speaker 2>choking her, So I just hold her in the air

<v Speaker 2>and she.

<v Speaker 1>Tries to run, you know, she's air running.

<v Speaker 2>And so that's kind of how we're combating that you

<v Speaker 2>put her in air when somebody goes goes by. But

<v Speaker 2>that lady's defense. I can see why she was kind

<v Speaker 2>of but hurt because her dog's a jerk. But still, but.

<v Speaker 3>Again her reaction is probably well and why her dogs

<v Speaker 3>for a long time well, I didn't linger. I just

<v Speaker 3>tried to assess the situation. And again I was trying

<v Speaker 3>to let them go past the gazebo so I didn't

<v Speaker 3>have to pass them at all, and she didn't like that.

<v Speaker 3>That's when she told me to just go. But yeah,

<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I just feel that people are in

<v Speaker 3>their own little bubbles now, and you're right, it's okay

<v Speaker 3>every once in a while, but I think it's also

<v Speaker 3>important to look up and remember there's a whole world

<v Speaker 3>going on out there and it doesn't hurt you at

<v Speaker 3>all to smile, really, you know. And I don't know,

<v Speaker 3>I just feel like we're kind of letting that get by,

<v Speaker 3>and that's not something we want to you know. I

<v Speaker 3>don't know. I just think that we need to hang

<v Speaker 3>on to that. We need to hang on to those

<v Speaker 3>niceties because it can mean a lot to some to

<v Speaker 3>see you smile.

<v Speaker 1>It really can. I'm just saying it. Really, it can.

<v Speaker 3>Change somebody's whole day just by smiling at them.

<v Speaker 1>Thank you, you welcome. I'm smiling at you. Better now

<v Speaker 1>better