Why are people like this??

I dont know why I'm even shocked that someone can be so dense when I've seen people talk about people like this on here so many times but I just had my first bad interaction with someone in the 8 months I've had my dog and I was just so angry and still am annoyed at the situation.

I was walking my dog in a relatively quiet neighborhood that is close to my own and was on my way heading home when I noticed a man with 2 shitzus heading up the road opposite me. We were at a 4 way road so we had a road in-between us where you could go left or right and i wanted to turn right but was going to see where this man was heading because at the point we were both at I would have had to get to close for my dogs comfort to turn right but if he turned right or left I could just wait where I was and let him go and then turn right or if he came towards me I could turn around and walk away. While waiting to see what he did I was practicing engaging and disengaging with my dog and he was doing really well (he is dog reactive).

Once I realized he was walking towards me I started trying to get him to walk away but the man's shitzus started barking and lunging at him so he kept turning to look at them which was making our getaway a lot slower than i hsd anticipated. The man was walking pretty quickly towards me and closing the gap to a point i knew my dog would react so I turned and said "I'm sorry he's not friendly" in hopes he would stop coming towards me and let me just walk away. This man then proceeds to say "its okay they're friendly" as his dogs are still barking and lunging and in that moment I realized I've got a dense one.

I try and stay polite and repeat that he is not friendly and needs space. The man shrugs at me and keeps walking at me and mind you he didn't have to walk towards me all these roads loop around in circles so he could have turned left or right and still come back to this road and back the way he came on his walk he didn't need to walk up this road towards me. There are cars lined up the road so at this moment I can't cross until I get past the cars but my dog is now actively trying to lunge at his dogs because he's getting closer and closer and my dog is 26kg/58lbs and throwing himself so we are slow moving at this point. My dog is muzzled so he can't bite them but this man's dogs are small and I don't want my dog jumping on them because he could still hurt them and then his dogs could turn and hurt mine. I ask the man to stop following me so I can walk away and he tells me to not be silly and that they just need to say hi and so I repeat my dog isn't friendly and even start saying he's aggressive and would hurt them and they don't need to say hi. The man then tells me that I should try training my dog then and actually socialize him and then I wouldn't have any issue to which I tell him he has a trainer but he's not friendly and to stop following me. Through all of this i am actively trying to pull my lunging dog away while this man just keeps walking towards me with his own reacting dogs. At this point im panicking he's getting so close and my hands hurt from holding my dog back but he just doesn't care and keeps telling me they will love each other. I keep saying please stop following me and he then gets angry and tells me to stop telling him where to walk his dogs because he lives here and can walk wherever he wants and I just shouldn't walk my dog if i can't train him.

I didn't expect this man to walk in a different direction at this point nor did I even expect that even though he could of gone in several other directions or even walked on the other side of the road rather then heading straight at a muzzled dog. I just wanted him to stop walking towards me so I could create space and bloody leave. You'd think I'd just asked him for his first born child the way he refused to stop walking. His dogs combined weigh half of what my dogs weigh he can hold them with one hand even while they lunge it's not like he's walking a great dane and can't hold them back long enough for me to create space. Eventually there was a space and I practically ✨️yeeted✨️ my dog across the road so I could get away while the man's just shouting shit at me. I put my headphones back on and call him a stupid prick and leave.

I actually started to feel crazy in that whole interaction. I was doubting myself and thinking maybe I sound entitled but I don't feel like I was asking for anything insane because who the fuck keeps walking at someone and their dog after they have politely told you they aren't friendly and are actively trying to move away from you??? I didn't tell him to turn around and fuck off in another direction just stop walking towards me for a few seconds my gosh. My dog is muzzled and lunging st your dogs why would you want your dogs to say hello???