Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire PSA: Old People That Talk to Children They Don't Know

Yes.

LMFAO.

I'm not butt hurt about anything, sport because I don't talk to other people's kids. But I've known a few older folks, mostly like someone else said older ladies who did. Including my late mother-in-law who was one of the sweetest, gentlest people you could know.

And I don't care what she did, if you had told her to "fugg off" in my presence I wouldn't have been the one to be butt hurt.

Has its own je ne sais quoi .

That is your opinion, my three daughters knew the difference between being with a parent and being alone, until they know the difference, they should never be alone.

I guess you wan't your kids growing up in total fear? I chose teaching my kids to be smart, if they are too young to be that, then they are too young to be alone.

Funny thing, I have interacted with kids a hundred times, never once have I sensed a parent angry or concerned.

Why would you want to? Heck, I can barely tolerate my own children and can't stand other peoples.

More than ten times I have come across young cub scouts or girl scouts, with a parent, selling cookies out front of a store, I stop and talk with them a few minutes, tell them about when I was a cub scout..is that OK?

Well there are enough out there who are predators to scare the hell out of me.

Teachable moments:

Momma and I were in the local Walmart grabbing some groceries about fifteen years ago. We saw our oldest daughter with her two girls at the other end of the store, and headed that way to say hi and get some grandkid hugs from the three and 1 1/2 year old girls.

When we got to where the girls' grocery cart was, our daughter was about six feet away looking at items on the shelf. I lifted the eighteen month old toddler out of her seat in the grocery cart and stepped almost out of sight around the end of the isle

If the look of sheer terror on our daughters face when she finally looked back at her cart was any indication, she probably never turned her back on the girls again.

No, it was not funny. And I was not laughing. I only let her panic for 1/2 second or so before I stepped out with her daughter. But she understood, it could have been anybody.

Yes. I'm sure you could kick my ass.

Awesome.

i See where Flave is coming from. Better to be safe than sorry these days. It’s a different world out there, half the country is medicated.

I taught my kids the same. I even taught my daughters to say “daddy has a 45”.

Depends on their age and maturity of the kid.

I like kids, teens not so much. I talk to my neighbor's kids, they don't seem to mind. Just the other say I paid the six your old girl next door $5 to load five palm branches into my truck...she was very proud of herself for earning that $5

^^^Normal response.^^^

WRONG, it depends on their age or whether or not they are with a parent.

Can we get a PSA about old dudes talking next to you at the urinal?

You're not the first to be butt hurt over it.

That's why I posted what I posted.

They must like what they seein' peein'.

yesterday evening we had a family with 5 small kids come up to look at the fish we had hanged for pics at the marina. the kids had all kinds of questions about the fish, we had the dad get his cooler and gave him 4 nice snapper. i don't normally talk to kids i don't know except a hi if they wave or say hi.

WRONG, it depends on their age or whether or not they are with a parent.

Butt hurt, do I sound butt hurt just bbecause I disagree with you?
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Which brings us to this point, who are you to be posting PSA's, stating your opinion does not make it right.

Just know that any kids that are old enough to grasp the conversation more than likely rolled their eyes and talked about you as soon as you walked away.

Old dude with new balances “back when I was in the scouts we didn’t have a Walmart we had to go door to door”

13 year old number 1: can’t believe he only bought 1 box after telling us that story”

13 year old number 2: yeah and he smelled like my grandpa