Apparently I never blogged my “don’t talk to strangers” experience.

A couple of years ago a group of us went on a day trip to Niagara Falls. While wandering around lookig for photo opportunities, I saw a small child (4 or 5?) climbing on rocks near the river, on the wrong side of a fence. So I walked over and told her it was dangerous to climb there, and that she should come back to the right side of the fence.

Her parents noticed this and rushed over, scowled at me, and scolded their child for talking to strangers. They didn’t, of course, scold her for climbing on rocks near a fast flowing river…