Tourists, other amateurs, dog-owners and child-owners.

So, I finally got home, today as (almost) any other day.

The metro and the coast train were full of tourists and other people who have no clue. I kept hearing talk about the amusement park and other drunken things all the way (yup, the amusement park was halfway on the train, but I think some didn't notice).

The ferry was full for the first time this year (I mean the first time that I've been on). There were people with gigantic backpacks, some with a lot of alcohol they got "cheap" in Denmark, and way to many of the small people. This brings me to part of my post header.

Dog-owners and child-owners (also called parents, if you're politically correct)
I started a thought while on the ferry. I was listening to a podcast, and had to turn the volume up at least twice (without lowering it in-between) while listening. This was due to the nature of parents (the child-owners) not considering that their child must be the loudest on the planet, and in the process having no consideration for other people in the ferry cafeteria, from which at least half left because of the child nerving noise. I can understand that children are children etc., but this was extreme, and even though "children are children", there must also be parents in the equation, not just "child-owners"...

This brings to mind the behaviour of dog-owners. To many of the people who own dogs, it doesn't matter how their dog behaves to guests and other people, it's still the cutest, nicest and most well-behaved pet they could have (according to them, not me). This reflects in when the dog jumps on another person, and the person doesn't exactly enjoy the behaviour. Then it's easier for the dog-owner to blame it on the person who was assaulted, than on the dog - the family member.

Often, it seems like dog-owners think of their pet as if it was their little baby instead of an animal. When the pet is almost as big as you are, and actually stronger, then I would consider what to teach it and how much it should get away with...

The same is of course true for the child-owners (I'm not saying parents here, for obvious reasons if you read from start). They most often don't care that their child is behaving in a way which causes great discomfort for others. They do nothing to stop it, and would never think of walking away to a place away from the crowds. Just like in the case with the dog-owners, they think they are right, and the 50 persons walking away are of course overly sensitive.....

Where is the world going?