TromboneAl
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Remember kids, don't take geocaches from strangers!
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I said something to one of the kids and he responded back... a couple of the others made a few remarks... then one of them said loudly to the others "STANGER DANGER"... I was a bit surprised at this and some responded to it by not talking... I told the others that I guess he was right and stopped talking to them.... QUOTE]
But that's the sad part. You felt the need to stop talking to them. Don't you find that a bit sad?
A bit, but I was enjoying the quiet prior to them coming so I really wanted them to go....
Exactly how geezer guys feel when they're cutting through the department store at the mega-mall looking for the door where they came in from the parking lot and suddenly find themselves walking though the lingerie department........
We have a geocache near our home and I visit it occasionally when I'm out walking. I was surprised to find a picture of that cache on the website with an old guy standing naked in front of it. Of course his privates were blurred, but I guess he makes a habit of taking nude pictures at caches in the area. Kind of creepy, but we're out in the middle of nowhere and I'd be lying if I said DW and I have never shed our clothes when wandering around the hills.
I don't know what kind of mosquitoes you're growing out there, but that sounds very painful...Of course his privates were blurred,
Me too, especially at Nordstrom where both the sales people and the shoppers tend to be young, well dressed and pretty. Anyway, don't you guys buy lingerie for your sweeties?I saunter through the lingerie department all the time, it is kind of a habit.........
I love watching people walk by the local Victoria's Secret..I saunter through the lingerie department all the time, it is kind of a habit.........
My fear is less of strangers as it is what other people will think of me as a "stranger" in certain situations.Interesting conversation in light of my most recent podcast listen from the grand folks at Freakonomics, called Where did all the hitch-hikers go?
It identifies well with this concept of stranger danger and how even though the number of people harmed by being hitchhikers or picking up hitchhikers was few, it was magnified by the fear we have of strangers.
My fear is less of strangers as it is what other people will think of me as a "stranger" in certain situations.
It's to the point where I absolutely, categorically, **refuse** to be alone with children without adult witnesses present -- and to the point where if a "strange" child starts getting close to me, I turn around and distance myself as much as I can. Last thing I need is for someone to call the police on me because I got "too close" to someone else's kid.
I understand exactly - which is one of the reasons I hightailed it out of there.
OTOH, kids needs to learn social skills and dealing with strangers is one of them. I'm getting pretty sick of hiring young people who are, at best, socially inept and, at worst, non-communicative to the point of catatonia.
All stats tell us that crime rates are down. So why do more and more of us feel like criminals for just doing stuff that comes naturally - like talking to a child.
Because it's on TV.All stats tell us that crime rates are down. So why do more and more of us feel like criminals for just doing stuff that comes naturally - like talking to a child.
Because it's on TV.
I did, until DW found out about it ...Anyway, don't you guys buy lingerie for your sweeties?
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I did, until DW found out about it ...
But you'd be teaching the kid that it's okay to talk to strangers.I'm going to talk to the next kid I see and let the chips fall where they may.
My first instinct was to get the heck out of there in case I was confronted as being some kind of pervert lurking in parks to endanger little children.
I'm an overweight woman who only poses a major threat to chairs, pepperoni pizzas and the occasional spider, yet I reacted like a criminal
Because it's on TV.
Oh, and if anyone knows a better hobby than geocaching for younger retirees, I'd love to hear about it.
But you'd be teaching the kid that it's okay to talk to strangers.
You're absolutely right, but children are still left alone with the dangerous ones and taught to fear (friendly) strangers.Pretty sure that most danger to children doesn't come from strangers but from family members including extended/blended, teachers, clergy, coaches, etc.--i.e., people who are not strangers. So talk away, Nu.
Pretty sure that most danger to children doesn't come from strangers but from family members including extended/blended, teachers, clergy, coaches, etc.--i.e., people who are not strangers. So talk away, Nu.