nearly getting abducted by a PDF file
well, possibly. you decide...

i was about six or seven. playing football with my slightly older brother in the nearby rundown concrete excuse for a football pitch. steel fences and high walls with just one entrance. you know the kind. anyway, there we are, just the two of use, having a kickabout, parents at home, nobody else in sight. all of a sudden a guy walks past holding a bag of chips. i remember him looking mid-thirtysish, possibly with a ponytail though i can't remember for sure.

'hey, just wondering, do you want these guys? i don't want em, i'm only gonna throw em away otherwise'.

to my naive mind he seemed genuine, and i was indeed a bit peckish, so i opted yes for chips.. only to suddenly have my older and somewhat wiser brother butt-in and refuse said chips, telling the chap to jog on in no uncertain terms. which he did. i remember feeling a bit pissed at my brother for that. very soon after we picked up the ball and went home, at which point my brother detailed the incident to my parents and i quickly found myself on the receiving end of the smacking off my life from my furious father. proper over the knee stuff. i'll never forget the whole incident from that alone.

of course there's no way to know for sure if he was a pervert with twisted intentions. but surely you wouldn't offer chips/sweets/anything to a pair of unsupervised children that you didn't know? even if you did have good intentions it'd still be an incredible irresponsible thing to do! i'm pretty sure he was a bummer.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 22:02, 1 reply)

I do believe there may have been a time...
when a little kindness was not considered a stringing up offense. I think it ended before I can remember though.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 20:06, closed)