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Some people just shouldn't be alone with their own children.. RANT

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edited August 2014 in Chit Chat
So I finally made it to school to handle some really important business. I'm obviously rushing into the building and I mean I'm borderline running in the door. This man stops me dead in my tracks and asks me to take his daughters (I'm assuming they were his) to the bathroom because he had a dog on a leash he couldn't bring in. He told me to show them the bathroom and told me I didn't have to wait for them, as if I would leave these little girls who looked younger than 6 just be lost in this big building. I just kinda looked at him like why would you just give me your children no questions asked. Maybe it's because I had on my sorority letters and he thought "oh she's in a sorority, she won't kidnap my children" or something along those lines. But whatever, they were two little girls who wanted to ride the elevator really badly (it's glass and when you ride up to the top floor you can see all of campus and then some) but I took them to the bathroom and stood RIGHT in front of the camera outside the door so nobody could say anything. Then as I'm walking them back to their father-person type thing.. whatever he was.. the little girl FALLS. I help her up and she laughed it off. However I didn't find it funny because for those 7 minutes (yes I counted) I was responsible for this stranger who's name I did not know. I took them to their father person thing and went to handle my business but I had to rant because that was ridiculous. Why would you just put your kids in my hands like that. I could be Susie Stalker. Some people just shouldn't be alone with their own children.

ETA: Apparently I can't spell 



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Re: Some people just shouldn't be alone with their own children.. RANT

  • I would've been freaked out that he wouldn't be there when you got back outside D8


    People who are like that with kids make me nervous. You did a good deed though.
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  • That is nuts. Good for you for doing it anyway, def the right thing. But that man is too trustworthy!

    I have escorted little girls into public restrooms before, but their fathers were typically standing right outside the door.
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  • sarahufl said:
    That is nuts. Good for you for doing it anyway, def the right thing. But that man is too trustworthy!

    I have escorted little girls into public restrooms before, but their fathers were typically standing right outside the door.
    I have too- but always with the dads nearby. I don't think I'd help if the dad wasn't there!
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  • Yikes, that is terrible! I would definitely have felt uncomfortable! You did the right thing though, that was very nice of you.
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  • This reminds me of when I'm at our apartment pool or somewhere and strangers ask me to watch their stuff while they leave for a few minutes. Sure, but I could be a thief and steal your stuff while you're gone...
  • Good on you for doing the right thing.  I would have been so unsure about whether or not to do it, but that's probably a factor of living  in a country I didn't grow up.  I'd do it at home. 

    But yes, it would make me feel as though that man/father/whoever didn't care that much about the safety of the children, and returning them would make me more uncomfortable than helping them find their way to the restroom in the first place.  

    I've taken strange children to the rest room before, but usually when I had a friend of family member's children in tow, and the parent/guardian/whoever was sitting outside the restroom entrance.

    This was just strange.  
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