Except I was walking and he was dozing.

In a nice bit of shade right in the middle of the path.

Did I mention it was a hot summer day in southern Arizona?

The path was narrow ... I was literally between a rock and a hard place ... and I had places to go and no desire to back up.
Anymore than he had a desire to move from such a comfortable place to laze away this fine summer afternoon.

So I stopped - a polite distance away - and we had a bit of a discussion. I said my piece; he said his.
I pointed out the error of his thinking - he pointed out he was armed and wasn't taking any nonsense.

I countered with my point of view - the fact that I was armed didn't seem to faze him one little bit.
I told him I didn't really have any argument with him but that I was going to pass by.
He attempted to convince me that he didn't care - he wasn't moving.

Eventually he saw my point of view - we came to an understanding: he moved on, I passed by ... and other than a vigorous bit of noisy displeasure on his part, no harm was done to either party.

I get grumpy too when someone disturbs my nap ...

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