Originally Posted by one4smoke

I've had people be rude to me no matter which way I went with it, either announcing or not. One time, I passed an elderly man without announcing and got absolutely scolded for not letting him know I was coming. The very next person I encountered, an overweight jogger about a mile down the trail, rudely told me "you don't own the damn trail" when I politely said on your left ...having just learned my lesson from the elderly man. You just can't please all the people, all the time.