BS: Should I Tell ?

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 03:02 AM

Do not say anything to anyone. Should not even have mentioned it here, I think.

You just don't know what the reaction to your best intention will be.

Even a simple "You have been seen, please be careful in every way" might instigate a nasty backlash against you. Accusing you of being a voyeur and saying inappropriate things to the girl.

Leave it, forget it.

They are kids doing what kids do. All perfectly normal. At least they weren't doing drugs or making a ritual sacrifice.

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 07:37 AM

Not long after we were married, we were kissing, just kissing mind you, in our car at a travel centre between Toronto and London Ontario. A lady walking by called out "Knock it off your two, you are in a public place!" She was smiling and good natured, but when our eye's met, one could tell that she meant it.

If I am in Olddude's situation, I think I will do what that lady did to us. It did have the effect of a bucket of cold water with blue dye and saltpeter in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 07:43 AM

Jack, what a sad woman she must have been.

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 07:45 AM

No Richard, just Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: ragdall
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 08:00 AM

Dan,
Given your circumstances, pretending the incident never happened seems for the best. Anything else could lead to hassles that you don't have the time or energy to engage in. Supplying someone else's children with condoms could even get you into legal problems. Like you, I'd stay out of it completely. I try to avoid anything that could lead to a conflict and I don't believe that my becoming involved would increase the chances of a more positive outcome.

I never see the high school students standing on my street smoking tobacco or pot or passing around small pipes filled with ? that they heat with cigarette lighters. They are just far enough away from the high school that they are "invisible" to the school, but they are in plain sight of half a dozen houses. I don't know if that fact hasn't occurred to them or if they really don't give a hoot? Maybe the children that you "didn't see" cavorting in the grass really didn't care if they could be seen either?

That said, two questions about your chance encounter come to my mind:
If the girl were one of your daughters, and someone who knew you saw them, what would you want that person to do?

If you were the boy and an adult you knew saw you, how would you feel about that adult speaking to you about it?

Maybe one of them reads Mudcat posts?
rags

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: olddude
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 08:40 AM

Problem resolved itself, went into the office now there is a big sign that reads "surveillance cameras in use outside this facility"

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: olddude
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 08:50 AM

It was pretty good thinking by the building supervisor, there really are no cameras but someone else must have seen it and reported it ..

Subject: RE: BS: Should I Tell ?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 26 Jul 11 - 09:29 AM

That'll be something of a relief, to feel the quandary is removed so you no longer need wonder what to do. How lovely that the kids can't ever be sure there are no cameras--it's a marvel at how small and hideable they are these days.