Ive been travelling all weekend. Finally home, thanks goodness! I am exhausted! I am now a certified oil spill wildlife responder! Hopefully I will never have to use it!
One the way home yesterday I came up behind a RV that had stopped on a narrow stretch of rd, guard rail on one side and a shoulderless ditch with a rockwall on the other, there were cars stopped heading in the opposite direction as well, so the entire rd was blocked, on a corner! People were out of their cars to take pictures of a little black bear on the side of the road! 6 ft away from a bear eating! I was in a fish and wildlife truck and wearing my uniform, so I had to say something... I told them that this was a very unsafe situation and they needed to get back in their cars and leave the animal alone.
They got back in their cars and one of the cars was eyeballing me and glaring as they drove by, I smiled and waved, mouthing thank you! hehe. I followed the RV in to a campground and explained why it was such a dangerous sitch, not only for them, but how dangerous it is for the bears to become so used to people. I feel really good about the fact that I didnt call them dumb a$$e$ even once! And I think that it was a good opportunity to actually teach them something that they can take with them instead of just yelling at them.
I told H about it and we talked alot about it, he told me I should have called them at least one name. It was kind of cool to have something interesting to talk about with him.
I guess I gave the wrong finger to the wrong man...
