Ricky Nelson said it best 3 decades ago in his song, “Garden Party”: “But it’s alright now, I learned my lesson well. Ya see, ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself.”
The kind of “quiet” it appears this woman is in search of is not to be found in a public space where others are engaged in activities that may or may not result in silence - which THEY are entitled to.
Perhaps she needs to either buy a huge farm in the middle of nowhere in Kansas to take her pup to prance, walk her doggie at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, take her pooch to poop in Machu Picchu, or wait for the grave to find the solace she seeks. While it’s obviously true what others have said here about fellow citizens having a right to enjoy themselves at the same public park you have a right to fly a drone in, the double edges of that social sword are apparent and most definitely cut both ways.
People are everywhere and noise comes with them, even if it’s just the occasional fart. We’re supposed to learn, beginning in pre-school or in first grade, that living together in a community requires give and take on everyone’s part. Seems to me, based upon all of the info the OP has provided, this elderly woman failed to learn that, believes she deserves special privilege, and has an unrealistic sense of entitlement that too many other Americans from a wide range of sub-groups exhibit all too often today.
That woman is special, alright. Just like everyone else.
The kind of “quiet” it appears this woman is in search of is not to be found in a public space where others are engaged in activities that may or may not result in silence - which THEY are entitled to.
Perhaps she needs to either buy a huge farm in the middle of nowhere in Kansas to take her pup to prance, walk her doggie at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, take her pooch to poop in Machu Picchu, or wait for the grave to find the solace she seeks. While it’s obviously true what others have said here about fellow citizens having a right to enjoy themselves at the same public park you have a right to fly a drone in, the double edges of that social sword are apparent and most definitely cut both ways.
People are everywhere and noise comes with them, even if it’s just the occasional fart. We’re supposed to learn, beginning in pre-school or in first grade, that living together in a community requires give and take on everyone’s part. Seems to me, based upon all of the info the OP has provided, this elderly woman failed to learn that, believes she deserves special privilege, and has an unrealistic sense of entitlement that too many other Americans from a wide range of sub-groups exhibit all too often today.
That woman is special, alright. Just like everyone else.
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