Apparently the people I rode with yesterday morning aren't heartless jerks after all (said, I have to clarify, with tongue firmly implanted in cheek; I really never believed they were...complete...jerks). Later yesterday morning I got a voice mail from the original fellow that had posted looking for people to ride with. He said they were glad to find that I'd made it out okay--that they'd actually been quite concerned, asking other riders and hikers if they'd seen me--and that he was very sorry about the trail being so god-awful rocky and steep. We had originally planned to ride a different trail, but plans changed at the last minute when some other folks joined up. He had no idea the new trail was going to be quite as rough as it was.
I also got an email last night from the woman that took us on that trail; she was also very nice in saying that that trail was a bad choice, given my profession of being weak in the knees, and that she was sorry it ended up being an abbreviated ride for me, etc. etc. etc.
It was just nice that they took the time to contact me; I appreciate that quite a lot. Up! Up! With People!
: P
3 comments:
Up with people!!!
You are one fine people.
lol
Personally, I vote for the sweet satisfaction of seeing poetic justice.
You/we may never know what went on behind the scenes, and we are smart to take explanations at face value, so that things can rub along smoothly hereafter, but being just a bit smarter than that, I leave room for doubt about those retrospective explanations. I'd call them 'excuses after the fact', and would not regain a sense of trust with any of those people until they demonstrated a pretty consistent effort to be more considerate.
But that's me. I try to take people seriously on some level, and it's disappointing when I encounter people who can't be bothered. You, on the other hand, have to deal with such idiots every day, from the sound of it. So perhaps your survival skills are more flexible than mine.
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