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

I required my kids (and now grandkids) to talk to store clerks and other business people and make transactions themselves with me present. I wasn't about to let them grow up shy. What I didn't go for was unsolicited strangers engaging them or family members with unusual interest in them. Absolutely I wouldn't let adults take them off ATV riding or swimming. Those 2 activities are trouble. My lady doctor suggested that her 12 year old son would like to come out and hunt with me to kill a deer. I told her I would be glad to take him but she or his dad would have to come also.

I'd agree that touching someone else's kid is out of bounds but I thought your thread was about talking to someone else's kid??

That old Mexican woman still talking to Jesus about ol’ El Diablo Blanco!

I know it's really weird, but some old people are Grandparents or just love children in general. It was very common for old people to make over children and pat them on the head when I was a kid. Now, because of the perverts, everybody thinks if you do that you are a weirdo.

Because some folks are nice. And some folks are overly paranoid. Which, really, probably there is a right to be this day and time. But ONCE AGAIN, we go blame EVERYONE in a category(guns) rather than punish the individuals that do whatever the crime is...

Geez.

[quote=smokepole] I was in an HEB in South Texas and some old, old, old lady walked up to my son and and gently touched his hair and started saying some schit about eggs and eyes.

I take my left arm and gently push her hand away and said "Hey lady. What the fugk are you doing? Get your own fugking kid."

She looked at me like I was El fugking Diablo in the flesh. I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything. Grabbed my son's hand and went to check out. There was literally a circle of Mexicans just staring at us with their mouths open.

Later at work I explained the story and everyone busted up laughing. Apparently it's some sort of Mexican voodoo bullschit. Evil eyes drain power so you gotta touch the kid or something. I told them all if their wives or mothers do that schit they better stop or they're gonna end up face down in the Nueces. Not everyone is born and raised in bum fugk Mexico.

LMAO. Touching somebody else's kid? WTF? Fugk off old lady.

Gotta show the wife this. Shes the most civil, polite person I've ever met. You're in public and someone starts trying to interact with one of the kids uninvited, she will flat light somebody up! She'll usually give them the stink eye first and if they proceed it's [bleep] go time.
I put aside the fact that it could be some kind gentle old person who's getting their feelings hurt, mainly because of the fact that I'm callous and self involved and could really care less. We've tried to teach our kids to not give a fugg about their fellow man. Makes life much simpler and less painful

Seems there's a whole worlds of people always ready to tell others to fuqk off for some reason or other.
What I have trouble understanding is how I manage to miss all the fights that get started that way.
Not to say I doubt what I read, but I kinda do.

Me and the other PM on my project were having lunch yesterday, and the 2-3 year old girl who was jabbering and laughing in the booth behind us got out of the booth before momma to leave, she looked up at me and I said "hey cutie"....I kid you not, she held her fist out for a bump and I obliged. It was funny as hell and cute at the same time.

A lot of the old timers on this forum are avoiding this thread.

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Depends on the context and location to me. Also, your definition of "old". If it's some eighty-year-old, few of them are gonna be spry enough to make away with all but the youngest of kids. As somebody else said, if it's some sixty-year-old, that's a lot different. I also figure lots of the true old people only know about half of what they're babbling about anyway. Lots of them want to talk to children because they've reverted to their second childhood themselves. If I'm in a nursing home with the kids, I expect them to get swarmed by oldsters, starved for attention.

Oh, and I'd say no offense to some of the oldsters on here, but IDGAF whether they're offended or not, so there's that, Polesmoker, lvmiker, Blowsinger, et al.

I did not read through all 16 pages, so tell to fugg off or go slog through the entire thread if this has been covered....

What age kids are we talking about here?

At what point in the child’s development are they allowed to interact with strangers in your presence?

I am a middle aged bachelor with no children, so what the fugg do I know....but, I have always felt that it is important to talk with the parent first. Let the parent size you up. The child will take cues from the parent and that is how children learn what is appropriate interaction and what is not. If you do not allow them to interact at all, how will they recognize danger when you are not around?

When will your 4 yr old son ever be alone?

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.

Now you are just getting nasty, I guess the intelligent debate is over with..have a nice day.

Havre, MT had a "balloon animal guy" that roamed around town. As in, literally approached strange children in public and asked them if he could make them a balloon animal.

It's not just about the level of inherent danger. It's about instilling in the mind that you don't talk to strangers.