>>Right now my wife is getting over a broken shoulder but she can't go for a walk round the local park because of the number of badly trained "he's not usually like that " dogs that are being taken for a walk by their clueless owners.
Fair enough. Stay away from walkways beside water or she'll meet charming cyclists who treat the footpath as their own speed circuit. My relative dying of cancer had to stop his seaside walks after road maggots almost collected him a number of times because he couldn't leap aside as they seemed to expect.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
