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I remember walking from the car past another where a woman with a boy of about three was locking her car and getting her fags out.

He started shouting 'Fat lady' at me and I told him he was a rude boy while she carried on looking for her fags.

She soon sorted him out when I said 'What a badly brought up child!'.

On my usual bandwagon, I also think a lot of abusive parents are able to carry on because people turn a blind eye. Both adults and children need a bit of support sometimes!

'Spare the cane & spoil the child'. {An old saying from my very distant youth}.

I parked outside a small garden centre yesterday that had a gravel surface in the car park. Up cruises one of those large, posh pickups with 4 doors and lots of chrome and out jumps father and starts a shouting match with his 2 young boys who were squabbling inside. Out they get and so does his pregnant partner? whose eyes never leave her smartphone. The father starts sorting the back of the vehicle to presumably make room for intended purchases while the lady stays glued to her phone. What are the boys doing? Kicking the gravel at each other and up the side of my car. Then through the wing mirror I see them leaning against the side of my car scratching their backs up and down on my car and rubbing any grit into the paintwork. Neither parent noticed or if they did they couldn't give a toss, but as soon as I started up to shift my car elsewhere I was glared at as if I shouldn't be moving my car anywhere near the little dears. :-S

Well Maggie as you observed people are afraid of then and they can smell fear :-| :-0

But David, that doesn't mean they will attack - after all, they have mothers, fathers, siblings etc.
Any dog can bite, but most don't. Any cat can scratch too.
Very few people go through life avoiding them 'just in case'.

Im the type Maggie that would have walked down the alley and made a point of saying hello or just have you got the time please? By actually making communication with them, I think they would less likely attack you.

I also remember in the mid 70s when young people dressed punk style. In Brighton I would have to walk 1/2 mile to where dad lived at the time. As they were all going down town, I was so scared of even looking at them incase they mugged me.....but when I described one of them, dad knew him and said, the spiked hairdo was just a front, underneath it all he was a sound guy!


As Ive said to many a colleague.For 6 hours we have the children in our sights but once the bell rings at the end of the day, we have no control as to what goes on in their life then.. And in the morning, we start all over again.

Florence in the hebrides

Dear All

Hello

Harassment and violence in any job is totally deplorable.

Most shops and public services have zero tolerance notices to try and protect their staff.

Sadly, people seem to be far more aggressive and so impatient now.

Everyone uses their phones as they walk along the streets.

Technology seems to be ruling people, instead of helping them.


Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx