I used to walk my dog every morning, on the beach in my town, until the year they put up a sign saying we couldn't walk our dogs from May 15th to September 15th. I, and my little corgi/yellow lab would walk with a friend who had 2 small Papillons, around 8 a.m. every morning, regardless of the weather. (unless it was raining cats and dogs...or we were having a Nor'Easter) It was May 17th....and drizzling out. There didn't seem to be any one else on the beach, and my friend and I walked our dogs as usual. It wasn't like there were a ton of beach-goers, especially since it was early in the season, and the weather was ugly, at best. And it was 8 o'clock in the morning.

All of a sudden, this frumpy looking woman came out of the dunes and started yelling at us. As she approached, we finally could hear what she was saying. She walked up to us and screamed, "you DO know that there are no dogs are allowed on the beach!"

I looked at my friend, who is very meek and mild mannered and then at the woman who was so furious and asked her to repeat her statement.

"You DO know that there are no dogs allowed on the beach!" she screamed again.

I looked at her and asked, "then...what are YOU doing here?"

She left in a huff and we continued our walk. I felt just awful, for what I'd said.....for about 12 seconds.