At the baseball, a flyball goes over the building and keeps going. I am about 200 meters from the general vicinity of where the ball ended up.
A couple of people look for the ball and can not find it. So I go over to where I thought it might be.
There is a young boy, not 10 years of age with a baseball and bat. I ask him if it was his ball and he said yes.
As I am walking back to my seat I see a lady walking towards me, saying to her son, “Come back here where I can see you”
She looks askance at me and I say, “I was looking for the game ball and asked the boy if it was his ball”
She said, “It is his ball”
I made this post because I left myself open to suspicion regarding single men and young children.
There is always a possibility that the mother would call the police and tell them there is a suspicion guy walking around with young children around.
Note to self - Never speak to young children when there are no adults present.
This is the world single men live in. Suspicion abounds all around.
It’s true and it’s a sign of the times.
I’d advise any guy not to leave himself vulnerable to accusations of procuring or stalking or perving after kids.
Even women have to watch it now, incase they’re accused of aiding and abetting them.
And yet there’s as much if not more danger to be found online now.
It’s not confined to kiddies either … people in general have become more isolated and less friendly with strangers.
Yes, it’s scary media wise.
But come on, we were all kids once.
I never accepted a toffee from a dodgy stranger.
Can’t beat sound parental advice… open to interpretation these days of course…
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Life has changed so much that you now have to be very careful indeed.
The age of innocence is lost, a sad fact, but best accepted.
There are far too many slick weirdos out there now.
I don’t have Grandkids of my own, more is the shame of it, my two do not want kids of their own.
My Carers have kids, from time to time they come with Mum and or Dad.
Simple rules, never in the same room on their own with me, if they want a drink or cookie, ask mum and if she says yes, she gives it to them.
They love feeding the fish, get 50p each, but they have to ask Mum first and I give the money to Mum who then gives it to them.
You can still have fun, but Mum or Dad has to be with them at all times.
When I was a kid adults were never friendly at all.
Stop making that noise!
Stop kicking that ball about!
Stop teasing the girls!
Put that fag out!
I think the likes of Saville and Harris have made it hard for all of us old blokes these days.
Yes, over the decades their have been many deviants forcing themselves on children thus making all men come under intense scrutiny.
I think it seems more recent than that Bretrick, perhaps it’s been reported more.
In the 90s here in Australia a sex offender register was implemented because of what seemed a growing number of sex offenders
Being 72 sometimes I go outside and yell " You kids get off my lawn " yet not one kid in my area and best neighbors going but I can not help myself .
Is that truly the case or now with 24/7 media , internet we get news from all over the world not just our countries thus we think things worse ?
Lol delightful —
Miami is the rudest city in the US, survey says
We scored a 9.88 out of 10 on the rudeness scale. Yikes.
By Briana Trujillo • Published August 31, 2024
The City of Miami, iconic for countless reasons, apparently attracts tourists around the worldwide despite its prickly reputation.
A new survey from language-learning site Preply ranked dozens of U.S. cities from most to least rude. Miami was in the top two–and it wasn’t number two.
And apparently, Miamians know it, since surveyed residents (along with those in Oakland, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz.) said people in their city are ruder than those in any other.
I love Paris,been lots of times but I don’t think I’ve actually met a friendly local 
Unlike the rest of France.
This is an interesting topic, and some comments are but illusions of the past of homo sapiens. Two I would love to address, and even remind everyone:
There never has been (nor will there ever be) an “age of innocence”, everything we see / experience has been occurring since the dawn of humans, and those “slick weirdos”, have an equally long track record. As much as the human species has grown, via evolution, social, and intellectual /mental/ psychological , as much as the species natural survival instincts have served to make them remain the same. The very instinct that made human life possible in the beginning (and was very important to the survival of the species, greed / self) , may bring about the extinction of the most intelligent species to ever inhabit the earth, no other known species has been able to effect their environment as the human species has.
Simple philosophy, what ever a Human does must be part of the Human condition, good or bad.
It begs the question…What is defined as actually right or wrong?
Is it only wrong because we deem it so, and has religion played, and is playing, a big part in creating order from chaos and setting the fundamental rules of society…Are we drifting towards worshiping the ‘Golden Calf’?
Sound familiar in today’s AI digital world?
Well Foxy, AI is being developed by folks, isn’t it IT 
And worshipped by folks Spitty… 
It’s taken over from God because it can speak to you…Fortunately, the folks who believe in God believe that he speaks to them…
Parisians, at least those living the nice arrondissements within the peripherique, are absolutely certain that theirs is the best city in the world. Thus they view everyone who is not Parisian as a lower form of life. If Paris is best, and they live in Paris, then they are the best also. And they must be right in this because they have chosen to live in Paris. And everyone who has decided to live elsewhere must be flawed - in judgement, in character, in taste and most likely intellect. So they are not going to be friendly towards such flawed people.
Ooh I think I’ve hit a nerve