Blather Otherwise Known as Greeny's Comment on Human Psychology
Something made me laugh this morning as I went for a walk.
I was giving it a fast pace with my mp3 cranking some tuneage (uh-oh, I just sounded dreadfully aged with that phrase) when I started up a street that normally had loose doggage roaming. Sure enough, a dog spied me and away it ran through some back yards, its tail between it's legs like I had thrown a rock at it. I walked on in my normal figure eight fashion through those back streets. I come around another corner and lo and behold, there is the SAME dog, strutting around in the street near apparently HIS house, fur on his back standing up, snarling at me, menacing me with his proximity to my ankles (crap, I hate that). I did laugh out loud at that point.
Just like the dog, people have similar habits.
Take them out of their own territory or safe zone and they are ill-at-ease.
While they are in their own hood, they can be overly protective among other things...
I was giving it a fast pace with my mp3 cranking some tuneage (uh-oh, I just sounded dreadfully aged with that phrase) when I started up a street that normally had loose doggage roaming. Sure enough, a dog spied me and away it ran through some back yards, its tail between it's legs like I had thrown a rock at it. I walked on in my normal figure eight fashion through those back streets. I come around another corner and lo and behold, there is the SAME dog, strutting around in the street near apparently HIS house, fur on his back standing up, snarling at me, menacing me with his proximity to my ankles (crap, I hate that). I did laugh out loud at that point.
Just like the dog, people have similar habits.
Take them out of their own territory or safe zone and they are ill-at-ease.
While they are in their own hood, they can be overly protective among other things...
posted by Unknown at 10:00 AM
10 Comments:
Not me. I bite everyone I see, anywhere I see them.
Sorry , Iamnot, but somehow I doubt this very seriously.
Ok...it's more like hugs with the occasional nibble.
Geeze, how's a guy s'posed to get a tough rep around here?
Iamnot, how can you possibly get a tough rep with "flower friday" anyway?
I hope that dog did not look like the one in your photo. But for me dogs and little kids think I am a push over. Don't them I used to carry around our 60lb lab years ago.
If kids think you're a push over how do you manage your classroom full of High schoolers Mathman?
Did you carry the lab around for protection or because he didn't want to have to walk?
Kimmy, there you go. That's sort of what I was saying. I was actually thinking of my friend"s husband and many other turn fearful away from their own turf but testosteroney back on it...
scary dog!
I guess we all have a mix of alpha dog and beta dog in us.
Well put, AM.
Are you back online yet?
Greeny good question. I was thinking about really little kids not the kids that act little in my class. But the answer is - sometimes you're right about the classroom management.
Oh, we all in every facet of life hae moments when we aren't up on our management game, Mathman.
I would like to be the kind of teacher that would frighten the kids quiet when I give a look or have a change they detected in my demeaner. Yelling doesn't EVER work I have found but knowing that didn't stop me from trying it a time or 10...
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