would you let me look after your kids

September 19, 2008 2:14pm CST
Last week, I went to see my Mum at work to help her out with something. And when I went to the toilets (its a public toilet, for customers and staff) there was a woman in there who couldnt get her kid in a buggy into the toilet very easily. The woman wanted the toilet not the kid, so for some reason, I said I would watch the kid while the mum went into the toilet. I truly did not think for a second she would say yes, but she did! I didnt mind watching the kid, but i could have been anyone! A mental baby snatcher,a paedo,a murderer, anyone. Would you leave your child with a strange woman???? I dont think theres any way she would have said yes if it was a man that had offered to lookafter the child, do you?
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13 responses
• United States
20 Sep 08
in this day and age no way no how to many kids being abducted by strangers i may have asked you to help me with the stroller but my child no way
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
20 Sep 08
Well i would not do that for sure yea , that is so unresponsible throwing our kids outside the toilet . seriously i think that the cause of kids being so rude in the world yea .
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
20 Sep 08
Oh maybe you look so angelic that the mother did not have a second thought of entrusting her children to you! After all who will not trust an angel? Kidding aside, I believe it is very dangerous to trust strangers just like that. Time has changed a lot. You don't know now whom to trust or not and with the kids safety as the point of argument, then why could a mother be so trusting when she does not even know if your face reflects your true personality. Well not me, I'd probably suffer holding my pee all day long but never would I entrust my kids to a stranger.
@mands61123 (2098)
19 Sep 08
i don't have kids so i can't say on that but she was probably more trusting cos your a woman she was probably exasperated and dying for a pee she probably didn't even think about any of that. Know what you mean though if you bolted with the kid mid pee what the hell could she have done?
• United States
20 Sep 08
Never! You just never know now days who is who anymore! I am so scared to even leave my children in the car and run into the house for something. I have two toddlers and when they are both asleep in the car and I'm by myself I have to take one of them inside at a time and it just freaks me out! I'm leaving the door open, running through the house like a crazy person to get back out to that car in my driveway. It only takes a second!
@rekcart83 (149)
• Philippines
20 Sep 08
I'm someone who's very cautious when it comes to trusting people. Just like you said you could be anyone. And it's just too irresponsible in my opinion for that woman to instantly say yes and left her child in your care. Good thing it was you and not someone else or else she might never know what might have happened to her boy. Hehe. Lol.
• United States
19 Sep 08
I would have to say HECK NO!!! I don't even want some people that I know to watch my kids let alone someone I have never met. If I'm in that bad of a panic my child would have to come out ofthe cart and just be held in my hands while I pee. It's not like I sit on public toilets anyway so it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. What ever was in that cart can be replaced but my child can't. And now with me having two kids, and pushing a double stroller, the handicap bathroom is just what I use. Technically I am considered handicap my children are my handicap they need me like I need them. Just like they have the handicap spaces for them and we have the stroller spaces for us right next to them then the restoroom stall is just as good for me.
@kezabelle (2974)
19 Sep 08
No, no stranger would be looking after my children certainly not one who actually asked, id wonder (sadly) what the intent behind the offer was. I either use the baby room which is big enough to take the buggy, wait, or now she can walk I unstrap her and leave the buggy outside the toilet while she comes in with me. If some chancer wants to steal my buggy they are welcome to it but not my children!!!
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I think that I would not do such a thing, no matter if I live in a very safe County. I would leave the child in the protection of only myself, things can be re found if the buggy has been taken. Now if my groceries are in the buggy, paid for, I would most likely make it clear to the customer service department that I was going to pee and would they watch my things? I would take my purse, and my child with me as well as the diaper bag if I had that. Unless they were to keep the buggy behind the counter of the customer service department, would I even think to leave anything of value (purse or baby diaper bag) and especially I would not leave my child in the buggy, behind the counter or not. A lot of people in this world are honest people, but a lot of people in this world are also evil people who hide behind a honest face. Sorry for my rant, but I think that it was great you were trusted, and obviously you did not take the child or you would either be in jail, or either way not be boasting about it! Good Day to you, I hope that you have a wonderful weekend! Lovely day
@Anne18 (11029)
19 Sep 08
Nothing against you but I wouldn't let anyone look after my children. If I needed the toilet and the bugg y wouldn't fit in the toilet and I couldn't wait, I would leave the toilet door open and pull the buggy in as far as I could and then go to the toilet, shynesss etc would just have to go out of the window. This way my baby would be safe and I would be able to go to the toliet. I wouldn't care about people looking at me. For this lady she was lucky to choose a trusting person, but she didn't know that at the time
• United States
19 Sep 08
ohhhhh nooooooo... okay so I tried to post once before but it cleared it out... so if you get two, that is why... I would never do that especially with the way people are nowadays... you really dont know who is standing next to you in line or in the bathroom or whereever... its just scary. I couldnt go to the bathroom without knowing my kid was okay first and if that meant me struggling for a long time then I guess thats what I do... no way would I keep my kid in the watchful eyes of a stranger....
• United States
19 Sep 08
There is no way in the world I would allow a stranger man or woman for that matter to watch my child. Like you said, you could have been a kidnapper, murderer or anything. That mother would have regretted it if you would have run off with her kids. I would have taken him out the buggy into the handicap stall that's always on the end. NO WAY would I ever do something like that. It's a good thing you weren't crazy but how can you tell these days?
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I live in a small community where you can trust most of your neighbors and such. But even having this trusting nature because I've lived here all of my life, No way would I trust someone I didn't know. People are freaks anymore and it only takes a second for a child's life to be turned upside down & inside out not to mention everyone elses. Crazy! But glad you were a good person for the child's sake! LOL