Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Thank you.
It was my pleasure to help her.

And that’s the part that made me sad.
The fact that she thought she had to wait to pick someone she thought she could trust.
As you know, Carolyn and I have two daughters and two young granddaughters, and it pains me that these are things they will have to deal with, probably, well into their future.
Carolyn and I won’t be around forever, and we raised our children as best we could, but they will always be our children, and that still carries that whole worry thing with it…!!! 😉

Also…
Funny thing is, I’m now sitting at Sarah’s (youngest DD) new apartment, waiting for the cable/internet person to show up, as she’s at work, and I had nothin’ better to do.
Wonder if, when I open the door, if he/she looks at me like “Sarah…?” I should smile and wink…!!!!!!! 😉:joyfull::hilarious:
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It's pretty scary in this day and age. You never know if it's safe. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was in the shopping center with E. We had just parked and were walking from the parking lot towards a store when we saw this little girl, probably around 4, no adults in sight, crying. I went to her and asked if she was alright, and all I could understand was "mommy and daddy", so I asked her her name....she was crying so hard I couldn't understand her. I asked her where she last saw mommy and daddy, she said she was in this store, but they left and now she couldn't see them. Since I was there with E, I sent E into the store to see if there was anyone frantically looking for a child while I stayed outside with her in case they had actually left the store and came back when they noticed she wasn't with them. We had asked her what mommy and daddy were wearing, and she said Daddy had a blue coat and mommy had a black coat. So E went looking for someone with that description. While I was with the little girl, a couple of other people approached, and I was a little upset that they took over and just marched the girl to the store where she had last seen them. I had already sent E, and I was afraid if they weren't there anymore that they would come back and she wouldn't be there. We were always taught that if we got lost, "hug a tree" meaning stay put where you are. It's harder to find someone who is moving from place to place....you miss each other. It wasn't very smart of them to just walk off with her....not to mention I didn't know who they were and what their intentions were. It felt a bit off that they wanted to walk off with her when she was already being helped. I kept up behind them and as we walked into the store, she screamed "DADDY!!" and went running to this guy who was walking towards us with E. She had seen him, but he wasn't looking for anyone at first. Then suddenly he looked around, called to his wife to ask if this girl was with her, she said no, she thought she was with him. E made a beeline for him and asked if he was missing a little girl and that we had found her wandering outside, she'd bring him to her. So all's well that ends well I guess, but I said to E that I was glad WE were the ones who found her, because ANYONE could have just walked up, told her they knew where mommy and daddy were, and snatched her. It's SO scary. I always told my kids to either look for someone who worked there, or to find a mommy with kids, because a mommy would understand and help. Both of them did that at various times. A found someone who worked in a store once when he couldn't see me....I was right there, but he looked the wrong direction and I didn't know he was looking for me. E went to a woman with a few kids and she took E to have me paged when she couldn't remember where our table was at a playground. So it definitely worked to tell them what to do if they got lost....I felt so bad for this little girl who obviously hadn't been taught what to do and she was so scared. And so many people saw her and ignored her. There's no way she could have known who to trust, and I'm glad we found her before the wrong person did!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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JenniferS said:
Streaming on Amazon Prime here — included in my subscription.
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Wow....we must be way behind then. Some things seem to come out here at the same time and other things we have to wait months for. I only go to the movies once in a blue moon anyway. I haven't seen any of the Bridget Jones movies because I can't stand Renee Zelwegger.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Songbird76 said:
It's pretty scary in this day and age. You never know if it's safe. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was in the shopping center with E. We had just parked and were walking from the parking lot towards a store when we saw this little girl, probably around 4, no adults in sight, crying. I went to her and asked if she was alright, and all I could understand was "mommy and daddy", so I asked her her name....she was crying so hard I couldn't understand her. I asked her where she last saw mommy and daddy, she said she was in this store, but they left and now she couldn't see them. Since I was there with E, I sent E into the store to see if there was anyone frantically looking for a child while I stayed outside with her in case they had actually left the store and came back when they noticed she wasn't with them. We had asked her what mommy and daddy were wearing, and she said Daddy had a blue coat and mommy had a black coat. So E went looking for someone with that description. While I was with the little girl, a couple of other people approached, and I was a little upset that they took over and just marched the girl to the store where she had last seen them. I had already sent E, and I was afraid if they weren't there anymore that they would come back and she wouldn't be there. We were always taught that if we got lost, "hug a tree" meaning stay put where you are. It's harder to find someone who is moving from place to place....you miss each other. It wasn't very smart of them to just walk off with her....not to mention I didn't know who they were and what their intentions were. It felt a bit off that they wanted to walk off with her when she was already being helped. I kept up behind them and as we walked into the store, she screamed "DADDY!!" and went running to this guy who was walking towards us with E. She had seen him, but he wasn't looking for anyone at first. Then suddenly he looked around, called to his wife to ask if this girl was with her, she said no, she thought she was with him. E made a beeline for him and asked if he was missing a little girl and that we had found her wandering outside, she'd bring him to her. So all's well that ends well I guess, but I said to E that I was glad WE were the ones who found her, because ANYONE could have just walked up, told her they knew where mommy and daddy were, and snatched her. It's SO scary. I always told my kids to either look for someone who worked there, or to find a mommy with kids, because a mommy would understand and help. Both of them did that at various times. A found someone who worked in a store once when he couldn't see me....I was right there, but he looked the wrong direction and I didn't know he was looking for me. E went to a woman with a few kids and she took E to have me paged when she couldn't remember where our table was at a playground. So it definitely worked to tell them what to do if they got lost....I felt so bad for this little girl who obviously hadn't been taught what to do and she was so scared. And so many people saw her and ignored her. There's no way she could have known who to trust, and I'm glad we found her before the wrong person did!
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Yea, bottom line, it can be a crazy world out there.
We tried not to scare our 3 children, but also tried to make them be aware (adjusted, age appropriately, as we raised them) of the potential dangers out there.
Not sure if I posted about this before…
Our oldest daughter’s 3rd grade teacher ended up spending about 15 years in jail on child molestation convictions.
He was an established teacher and well-known and liked at the school.
He taught music lessons on the side, and this is where things happened. Not at the school. He picked young boys in his class that had issues, and groomed them.
Gives me the pukes just thinking about this scum.
He offed himself a coupla’ years after he got out of prison.
From what I understand, he wasn’t exactly a model prisoner, either.
Left his wife and only daughter with the stigma.
What a d-bag loser.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
Yea, bottom line, it can be a crazy world out there.
We tried not to scare our 3 children, but also tried to make them be aware (adjusted, age appropriately, as we raised them) of the potential dangers out there.
Not sure if I posted about this before…
Our oldest daughter’s 3rd grade teacher ended up spending about 15 years in jail on child molestation convictions.
He was an established teacher and well-known and liked at the school.
He taught music lessons on the side, and this is where things happened. Not at the school. He picked young boys in his class that had issues, and groomed them.
Gives me the pukes just thinking about this scum.
He offed himself a coupla’ years after he got out of prison.
From what I understand, he wasn’t exactly a model prisoner, either.
Left his wife and only daughter with the stigma.
What a d-bag loser.
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Well that's scary! I remember when I was in 4th grade, I was taking piano lessons for the first time. I was all excited about learning. My mom played, but she didn't have much patience and would get frustrated when I asked questions or made mistakes. I think I only got a couple of lessons before the teacher left. Of course I was a kid, and I'm sure my mom wasn't going to tell me why, but I HEARD from other kids that he had been oggling this other girl and like touching her knee and such. I don't know how much truth there is to that because that girl was definitely the kind to make something up to get a person in trouble because they wouldn't give her her way, and that teacher never did anything to ME in the lessons. And I remember talking to him after lessons as we walked out of the building about my mom and such. He knew I was from a broken home...I would have been easy prey for a pedophile back in elementary school, but he didn't so much as look at me.

This girl bullied me all through school....or well, SHE didn't bully me, she got her big friends to do it for her. One threatened me on the 2nd day of school when I was in 7th grade. We were in choir and we were given a break to go get a drink at the fountain and this friend came up and told me to stop trying to outsing the girl. I had no idea what she was talking about. She said if I didn't stop, she was going to beat me up after school. I told her I wasn't trying to outsing her and if I was outsinging her it must be just because I was a better singer. Then in my sophomore year, she and I were supposed to sing the national anthem at the homecoming game. When we practiced, the teacher left us alone and the girl said I had to sing the harmony because she couldn't make one up and she HAD to sing the melody. I said it was fine, and I came up with a harmony. Then at the game, she just didn't show up and I had to sing it myself. Not a big deal....I had sung it before, but I think she thought it would rattle me. And she and some of her friends made intimidating and mean comments to me in the halls, in choir class, whenever. She was just kind of a bad seed. She dropped out that year or the year after. Actually, I don't think anyone in her family graduated high school.....she was in my brother's class a year ahead of me, her brother was in my class until he dropped out, and their sister was 2 or 3 years younger than me, and she dropped out as well. Anyway, I have my doubts about the veracity of her accusations regarding the band/piano teacher.
 

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