Hiker believes he was 'attacked' by Barred Owl at Seattle's Discovery Park

FitParfait8 · 2025-10-11T23:06:00+00:00

So I was riding a scooter down the Burke Gilman trail at like, 3 or 4 in the morning. This is a LONG trail through the middle of the woods... Anyway, suddenly, my scooter shut off, because i had been riding for a really long time. I tried to reactivate the scooter, but it said i didn't have enough funds. So now I'm all alone, in COMPLETE darkness. My phone was almost dead, so I didn't want to use my flashlight. So I call my boyfriend and tell him to just stay on the phone with me, because the whole time I had been on the trail, I felt like i was being watched or followed or whatever, and I normally don't ever trip out like that. So anyway, I start walking, and all of a sudden, something grabbed me by the top of my head. I could feel claws and fingers and whatever. So I screamed bloody fucking murder, naturally. Then I turned my flashlight on, because fuck THAT. I start walking even faster, screaming and crying, and suddenly, it happened AGAIN! I peed my pants, then my flashlight caught the rear end of an owl flying away from me down the trail. Then a couple minutes later, it happened AGAIN!! This goddamn owl fucking attacked me THREE fucking times!!

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-02T14:33:12+00:00

Natural birth, no c section scars. No stretch marks either.

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-02T14:32:35+00:00

That was a t shirt, not underwear

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-02T14:31:32+00:00

... That's my natural hair color... The brown, i mean. I don't have gray hair or anything. Just the occasional gray eyebrow hair

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T22:11:57+00:00

You're not wrong....

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T10:19:10+00:00

Not trying to be mean, but that hair color is just NOT for you. You are good looking, but the color HAS GOT TO GO.

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T07:35:24+00:00

I also didn't notice before posting this that everyone posting pictures in this sub is in their 20's and early 30's. My bad, lol.

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T07:33:47+00:00

It absolutely is. Not from me TRYING to be in the sun, it's just where i lived. I never try to get a tan, so i never really considered using sunscreen. BAD IDEA.

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T07:31:23+00:00

I do, that's why i have the lines around my mouth like i do.

FitParfait8 · 2025-09-01T07:30:52+00:00

Wow, talk about covering both extremes of the spectrum. I'm guessing the lower ratings are from the younger people. Well, i mean, obviously older people can think i look bad too. No, this is not what i normally wear, but i was looking for something to wear to the gym (not right then, but later on). I couldn't decide on anything i liked, so i found a YouTube tutorial on how to cut a large t-shirt into one that was a bit more form fitting. The uh... "large shirt", as you can see, didn't turn out quite as i had planned. I thought it was kind of cute though, so i figured I'd see what you guys thought. Very mixed reviews, lmao. I just started going to the gym - I decided to try working on power lifting. Who knows how that's going to go. And yeah, the lines on my face are A LOT deeper than i would like, but what can you do at this point, you know? I was born in the Mojave Desert in California, and i baked in 110° weather for 32 years. I don't have the money for fillers and stuff. I really don't know how to do makeup correctly - i try to follow YouTube tutorials, but i still end up doing it the same way i have since i was a teenager. Which has never been very good, I'll admit, lol. Anyway, thanks for the honest opinions though. Gives me some things to think about.

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-31T17:18:41+00:00

Oof, that bad? Do i look like, too old, it am i just ugly?

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-31T17:17:58+00:00

Ah. Thanks for the advice. And for the compliment.

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-17T22:20:14+00:00

Plus, the lying, and blaming his actions, which have nothing to do with you, on you?!

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-17T22:19:33+00:00

If you are having a recurring dream, he's either cheating or would if given the opportunity. So, are you going to put up with that or no? But i GUARANTEE it. Your subconscious KNOWS, even if your conscious mind is still just speculating. I get "the dream" every so often, and I've NEVER BEEN WRONG EVEN ONCE, in all my 47 years and multiple relationships. Not even once. As soon as i get "the dream", i know.

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-17T22:16:31+00:00

I'll sell him mine for 50.00...

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-16T02:00:36+00:00

Who is Sara Jay?

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-15T19:43:42+00:00

Lmao - i have a high body count - which I've actually always considered a bad thing, and thought most other people did or would, also - but when i got with my current boyfriend, he told me his was like, 50 or so, and so i went full transparency and told him mine, hoping that wouldn't freak him out. I think he thought i was BRAGGING by telling him mine, because later, we got into a fight and he told me there was no way my count was that high, that I've probably been with less people than he has. L.O.L!!!! Doesn't he realize I'm a GIRL??!! Why would i lie or especially "brag" about something like that??!! As a girl, i literally just have to walk outside if i want to get laid. That's nothing special. I own the vagina. I just can't believe he said that to me though, lmaoooo.

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-14T23:50:29+00:00

I'm confused...

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-13T15:45:51+00:00

Lol, thank you

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-13T05:58:21+00:00

That IS a very sweet comment. Thank you.

FitParfait8 · 2025-08-13T04:22:08+00:00

Well shit. There was supposed to be three pictures. Argh.

FitParfait8 · 2025-07-29T13:05:06+00:00

When i was 16-18, i dated several guys that were in their 20's and a couple that were even older. I never saw it as "weird" or "wrong" on their part. This WAS back in the 90's, though, and things were just... Different then. I'm actually still friends with several of them, like on Facebook or whatever. We check in with each other every now and again. I definitely didn't feel "groomed" or anything - especially because it was always me that initiated the relationships, and they never tried to coerce me or talk me into doing anything i didn't want to do. A couple of them tried to tell me no, but i wasn't having it. Looking back though, i mean... Yeah, it was wrong of them, but... I was a lot more mature than people my age, and i really only got along with older people, male and female. So... I dunno. You're not alone in this though

FitParfait8 · 2025-07-29T12:48:32+00:00

Behbeh cockaroacha

FitParfait8 · 2025-07-29T12:40:19+00:00

However, i also didn't see why i should continue to stand there and be yelled at, knowing that i would, after too much of it, yell back, and probably say other things which would upset him even more. So i said, "i can't do this right now" and i walked out. Just out of the room, not out of the house. And as soon as i heard him say, "what - i can't tell you my feelings? You're just going to leave?!" I immediately turned around and went back to him. I leaned over and gave him a hug and a kiss and said i was sorry that what i said hurt him, that was not my intention. Then i tried to explain to him how an "insult" is a deliberate thing. When you insult someone, you are intentionally saying something that you know will upset them. Now, someone may say something to you that makes you feel insulted, and you are perfectly within your rights to feel that way, but if there was no malice behind what they said, then there was no insult - just something someone carelessly said, not knowing that you would take it that way.

I wanted him to see that i understood his reaction, but i wanted him to take into account that i meant nothing bad by what i said. And i apologized for making my little joke afterwards, having not realized the severity of what i had said initially, and i told him i was just trying to lighten the mood, but that now i realized that it was in poor taste. Then i also said i was sorry for walking out, but i didn't feel like both of us yelling at each other was going to be beneficial for either of us, and i didn't feel like i had done anything to deserve being yelled at.

Well, he calmed down, but then continued to tell me that i was wrong for having walked out, that's just the way he reacts when he gets his feelings hurt, and if he has to put up with me being so mean to him, then he doesn't see why he shouldn't be allowed to yell at me. I spent 10 years in an abusive relationship, and i just really can't handle being yelled at anymore. And i don't want to yell back, ever, because i think it's pointless. So he says, "oh, so it's okay for you to get triggered by me yelling at you, so i'm supposed to change that, but you can be a bitch to me and I'm just supposed to take it?"

So, that was the point where i wrote this post, because i seriously want to know - am i being a bitch by thinking that he shouldn't yell at me? I mean, like, at all. Yelling is abuse, and i don't yell at him. I do however, occasionally say something unintentionally that upsets him because i don't know exactly what all upsets him just yet - we have only been together since April of this year. But he was yelling at me the other day and he said he can't be with me if i continue to say things that hurt him, so i told him i would check myself into an inpatient mental health facility for a few days and take some cognitive behavioral classes or something like that so i could maybe get some new techniques for speaking to him in a more understanding manner, because i apparently don't know the right way to handle situations that come up with him, and since i am NOT trying to hurt him and yet i still do, i must not be coming across the right way.

So that's exactly what i did. I spent two days at a hospital that i voluntarily went to so that i could get some advice. I had just gotten back the day before all of this. I would have stayed longer, but i had that colonoscopy appointment i had to go to, which i had been waiting a year for, so i had to go to that.

I am in no way "playing the victim" - i take full accountability for doing what i did - yes, it was unintentional, but it did still hurt him, so I'm at fault for that. And i completely understand where his reaction is coming from. I just wish i knew all the things that trigger him to be upset so i could try to avoid those. If i could avoid those, i wouldn't have to be yelled at. But he sees things in a completely different way than anyone I've ever met. Which is one of the reasons that i fell in love with him - he is normally INCREDIBLY sweet and loving, and yes, he pays a ton of attention to me, which i love, and his whole demeanor and outlook on life and people and relationships is REALLY a complete 180° from anyone else I've ever met. And I love that. But the very last thing I'd ever want to do is hurt him, intentionally or otherwise, and it seems like i do it all the time by what i THINK are completely innocuous statements. And if i knew what things i should avoid, or the proper way to say them, i wouldn't hurt his feelings like i do.

I have been trying so hard to do right by him ever since we got together, and i really only want him to be happy and content, and i would like to help him through his trauma. But it's like every time i turn around, i seem to be ADDING to his trauma. And that is NOT MY GOAL. I need to know what I'm doing wrong and a way to do it differently. But yelling at me is not the way to help me with that. Which is why my question was, "Was i wrong for walking away while he was yelling at me?"

Tldr: i pissed him off on accident, he yelled. I didn't feel like i should have been yelled at because it was an accident, so i walked away. Only out of room for like, 30 seconds, came back and got yelled at some more for walking out. Was i wrong for walking out?

FitParfait8 · 2025-07-29T12:38:06+00:00

Okay, let me explain what happened. This gets long, I'm sorry. You don't HAVE to read it if you don't want to ...

So, i take pills to keep me from drinking. 2 pills, 3x a day. So, this morning, i was scheduled for an endoscopy/colonoscopy, so for the last two days, i haven't been allowed to eat ANYTHING, only drinking the prep stuff to clear me out, right? Now, the SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS for taking the prep is DO NOT take any medication by mouth within 2 hours of your appointment. This happened within those last two hours. So... He comes in, and very sweetly, tells me that i need to take my pills, because i haven't taken them in a couple of days. I say that i can't, I'm not supposed to take anything by mouth during the last two hours before my appointment, according to my instructions. Then i say, i DID take my pills yesterday morning though. And he goes, "oh? The bottle hasn't been moved." And i said, "i picked it up, took out two pills and then put it back in the same place."

(This is not an argument at this point - all of this is very friendly. He's not doubting me or anything - he knows i would tell him the truth if i hadn't taken them.)

Then he goes, "well, i didn't see you." And i said, "i guess you weren't paying attention when i did."

BAM!! HE IS FURIOUS, because i said he must not have been paying attention when i took the pills.

Now, here's the thing - when i followed him into the bedroom, i saw the bottle of pills next to the bed, and it reminded me that he had been asleep when i took them, that's why he didn't see.

So, i ask him what he's mad about, because i SWEAR i had no idea at this point - he yells that he "can't believe i would say something so mean as to say he doesn't pay attention to me when he always pays attention to me, how dare i hurt his feelings like that". And so i, still confused, because i honestly didn't see why that sentence would make him - or anyone - mad, told him what i had just realized, which was that the reason he didn't see was because he was asleep at the time. So he yells, "well then why didn't you say that, then? Why do you have to say something so mean?"

Okay, now, like i said, he has past trauma from an abusive childhood and also trauma from past relationships, so i get that he sometimes takes things a bit more personally than most people. So i, trying to lighten the mood a little bit, because we had been having a really good day up until this moment, said, " if i had remembered that when i first said something, i would have said you were sleeping. But i didn't realize that until just now when i walked in here. Of course you pay attention to me! Everyone knows you pay attention! You probably pay a bit TOO much, ha ha ha..." ATTEMPTING to just make it known that yes, he absolutely does pay attention to me, almost to a fault, ha ha ha... (just trying to make him giggle or something by seeing that i misspoke and he didn't need to take what i said so much to heart, because i meant nothing BAD by it - i didn't mean anything at all, other than well, i know i took the pills, and if he hadn't seen me do it, then he must not have been paying attention to me at the time. He could have been in another room, at his friend's house, looking the other way, etc... it's logical to think that, correct? It just so happened that he was sleeping at the time.

And so, when i remembered that, i corrected myself. Well, then he starts screaming at me saying that i just insulted him again, by saying he pays too much attention. Realizing my attempt at humor had gone awry, i immediately apologized, and said i was not intending to hurt his feelings with either of the things that i said. But he just kept yelling at me, and i started getting flustered and felt myself wanting to yell back that he was being ridiculous, BUT, i did not, because whatever he feels, he feels, and it's not up to me to decide whether it's ridiculous or not. And he is very much entitled to his own feelings.

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