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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tatsukun" data-source="post: 2356875" data-attributes="member: 15511">Two things to add..1) This whole thing about telling kids “Fear strangers” is silly. They don’t fear the bad guys, they only end up fearing everyone else. I used to work in a big university, and I often see parents and their kids walking on our campus. I often say “Hello” to the family, and 9 times out of 10 the mother grabs the child, and shoves him/her behind herself as if to protect from the freak who DARES talk to her family (child included). Of course, it has bad effects. Just recently there was that Boy Scout lost in the woods for 4 days because he was scared to talk to the ‘strangers’ in the search and rescue parties who were looking for him. That’s sad. 2) I lost my wallet (dropped it on the subway train) a few months ago. It contained my ID, money, and various cards. I figured it was gone, and had the cards canceled and all that. Well, a few days later I get a call from the police station. Someone found my wallet, and turned it in the same day. They had been holding it for my, waiting for me to contact them. Of course, everything was in the wallet when I got it back.The lesson is that if I had had a little faith in humans and checked if anyone had turned it in I wouldn’t have had to go to all the trouble of canceling my cards.       --Tatsu</blockquote>