u/horrorfilmwatcher

Last week I was on vacation with my family. On our last day, we decided to treat ourselves by going to a fancy restaurant. A while after we sat down at our table, a couple with two dogs sat down at a table next to ours. First question, why bring dogs to a restaurant, especially a fancy one? At least they were not barking, but I have a severe allergy against dogs and this already upset me. Luckily, the tables had some space between them, so nothing happened at first. A while later, a mother and her kid (maybe around 8 years old) walked past our tables. In that same moment, one of the dog owners dropped the leash they were holding onto and the dogs RAN at the kid. Mind you, the kid hasn’t done anything to provoke the dogs, him and his mom were simply walking by. Luckily, both dogs were on the smaller side and the kid didn’t get seriously hurt. But one of the dogs DID bite the kid. What’s even crazier to me is the fact that the mom didn’t do shit. She was laughing it off even though the kid was visibly scared and shaken, which is understandable. The dog owners didn’t even apologize and brushed it off by saying that they just wanted to "play." Imagine if those dogs were pitbulls. The kid might not be with us right now if that were the case. I will never understand why dog owners feel the need to bring their dogs EVERYWHERE and I will never understand how "dogs only attack when they are provoked" is a thing. They DO attack people for absolutely NO reason. This was not the first dog attack Ive witnessed in a restaurant, and Im sure it won’t be my last considering the average dog owners entitlement.

This might not seem controversial at first, but especially people on the internet are too concerned with forming opinions on topics that they’re not educated on and on topics that don’t affect them.

My brother is in a big school. The graduation took place in the school’s gym, which was a big room with chairs prepared for everyone and their families. When we came to the graduation ceremony, my parents and I picked probably one of the worst seats unknowingly. In front of us was a family which had a dog with them… why the heck would you bring your dog to a GRADUATION CEREMONY. We were all very excited for my brother’s graduation, especially since he had a rough school life. And this dog would not stop barking. Every time a speech was given or everybody clapped, that dog would bark so loud Im sure that even the people sitting on the other side of the room could hear it clearly. Every single video we took was full of the barking noise. Sometimes we couldn’t even hear what was being said during the ceremony because of how LOUD that dog was. At some point, the family was asked to take the dog outside because it was literally ruining this special day for both the graduates and the families. But the whole ceremony was already ruined for most people sitting near that family. Imagine you build up the courage as a fresh graduate to give a speech in front of hundreds of people just to be interrupted by barking. Imagine trying to take a video as a parent on this special day for your child to see in the future. This is insanely rude and ignorant?? Dogs are NOT children. They do not belong everywhere. Thanks to this stupid dog our day was ruined.

Throughout my entire life, Ive been very skinny. There was a time in which I became so skinny to a point where my family was genuinely concerned for me. I was pretty young at the time and didn’t understand it back then, but I do now. My parents went to the doctors twice and tried to put me on a diet, but they were advised not to since I would "grow out of it" and putting a child on a diet can be difficult.

I never ate a lot and I still don’t. But it’s not because I want to be skinnier. Im not anorexic. When I tell people the true reason why I eat little, they most often don’t believe me… I don’t like eating and Im not interested in it. I don’t find eating enjoyable at all, and I really don’t like the feeling of having a full stomach. It makes me feel tired, nauseous, and exhausted… so I mostly avoid eating more than my hunger.

Of course there are foods that I like eating, but eating in general feels like a chore, so I only do it when Im hungry, and I stop doing it once my hunger is gone. On top of that Im quite picky. Most people would eat most foods if they were really hungry, but I wouldn’t. I really only eat a small handful of different foods, and I know that’s not healthy.

But I feel like I physically cant eat foods that I really dislike, and that’s basically most foods. Im not vegetarian or vegan, but I PHYSICALLY can’t eat most animal products. Meat, eggs, cheese… etc. I can’t stand their taste, texture, and smell, and even if I try eating them I feel like I have to spit it out. It’s like they’re impossible to chew. And there are so much more foods that I just can’t stand… but not because Im anorexic.

But a lot of people think that way, and, to be honest, I don’t blame them. If you don’t know me, it can really seem like I am. But Im not and I don’t know how to communicate that to people, especially my family.

I feel like dogs do this to women in general even when they’re not on their periods, but dogs get especially aggressive when women are on their periods for some reason??? It’s uncomfortable, embarrassing, humiliating and disgusting. And what makes it worse is the fact that dog owners don’t give a shit. They seem to be fully okay with their dogs harassing women inappropriately in public! I don’t want a dog NEAR ME at all so I certainly don’t want them in my private area??? I don’t want to disrespect SA victims but I genuinely feel extremely uncomfortable in that sense as well and I hate the fact that people treat this situation like it’s normal and even "cute"

Edit: I never said that men don’t experience this. This post is just about a specific experience I have dealt with.