I was really looking forward to
the hike along the mountain stream and a cool dip at the waterfalls today, but
that hike did not happen. C, our leader, was late arriving but that was not the
reason. No, the fault is the nasty woman of the Daytrippers group, the one I
was in conflict with last winter that caused me to separate from Daytrippers because
she and her coworker planned a second event in the name of the group on the
same day that I had already planned an event in the name of the group and
announced some weeks earlier, without discussing things with me despite the
fact that they knew me fairly well by then. She was up to her old tricks and decided
to sabotage C’s event today, because she had opted to call for a hike today,
the same day. How it happened was that C had
planned the mountain stream hike for tomorrow, Sunday the 6, but
the weather forecasts kept changing all week prior to that date and, for a
couple of days last week, said there would be thundershowers on Sunday, so C
changed the hike from Sunday to today, Saturday the 5. In the
meantime, and after C had already announced his Sunday event a couple of weeks
ago, that woman decided to call for the hike on Saturday earlier this week. (She
had even joined C’s Sunday event as a “maybe” participant.) C inadvertently
changed the date of his hike to fall on the day of the Daytrippers’ hike. Well,
so what? You know what, there may be many different events happening in this
city on any given day, believe it or not! The stream event was a different kind
of event that the routine city climb that Daytrippers had announced. That woman
complained when she learned that C’s event was planned for the day of the event
she had organized, intervening on his Facebook event page and calling around to
get C and others ( except me of course) to give up the mountain stream hike.
Two of us were still game and preferred the stream and waterfalls gig, but that
woman agitated against it and called C to complain against him. He turned
around and went home, no doubt demoralized by the inappropriate and snotty
intervention. That was really an egotistical and bitchy thing for the
Daytrippers leader to do. It spoiled an outing that at least three people were
hoping to do. After waiting for C to no avail
for about one-and-half-hours, and having gotten back onto the subway train on
his request to meet him elsewhere, C did not show. I made friends with the
other woman waiting and we went to explore the Dongnae-gu historic area,
walking through the area past the traditional market, up by the ancient tombs
and archaeological dig, then up to the ridge for a view and lunch. She was not
very energetic, it turned out, and neither was I because I did a full work-out
yesterday. We were both mostly interested in taking a dip in the stream on a
hot day, actually. Therefore, we did not dally very far, and turned around soon
after our sack lunch up by the reconstructed fortress wall in the park. We both agreed that it was a good
day in spite of the mix-up and failure to connect with C. It was good getting
to know Erin, for one thing, plus it had been a while since I had visited the
Dongnae historic fortress area and it was a pleasure seeing it again.
That is why I am back home reposing at my apartment
this afternoon and have a chance to write this blog earlier in the day than
usual. Having planned a whole day out, I have no other plan for activities at
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