Stranger Danger

I am a kid magnet. It does not matter what I am wearing, how I have my hair fixed. Weather or not I have long pants or you can see my snake Tattoo on my calf. Short spiky red hair, longer curly lady hair. Natural dirty blond hair. Weather I have my Harley or my Kawasaki or my SUV or the Truck. I can have my dogs or not. (I will not mention the bird cause she is a kid magnet no matter who has her) It just does not matter How I act, or look. I am a kid Magnet have always been one.

I try and avoid kids sporting events, and do not walk past schools when out walking cause if I do I tend to have a pied piper effect going on. But as you know you can not avoid kids completely or you would never go anywhere. So If I go to a fireworks display with my husband, or a racing event, or a demo derby, or just whatever. It happens.

I will be setting in the crowd minding my own business and someone will tap me on the leg. I will look down and always there is a kid who has taken a spot next to me. Ignoring them does not discourage them so I gave up on that. They will start usually with something like,
"Hello, what you doin?"
"Just sittin here. Where's your Mom?"
"Over there (point) She's busy with my little brother." (Or whatever has distracted her enough that the kid has wondered off)
"Are you not suppose to talk to strangers?"
"No I'm not, but your not a stranger."
"I'm pretty strange."
"No your not, silly."
"What's the snake on your leg mean."
Somehow if they have room at this point there are usually more kids. If I am on bleachers it is usually one or two, but if we are somewhere setting on grass, it can be more.

Now my Brother also has this magnetic personality, if we go to Wal-Mart together we tend to have several following us. But we live pretty far apart now so we do not get out much together any more.

I have to set and wait until the parents notice that their kids are gone, because if I get up and walk away they will follow me. I have had to walk to the area of the parents, and sometimes even when they see me with their kids they pay little attention. A few times I have had to ask if they would take their children cause I needed to go. Then they look at me like I am an asshole, and ask me what I was doing with their kids in the first place. As if it was my idea.

I have no kids, never have had any, my husband and I tried and we even tried fostering. But that did not work out. My Brother also has no kids, maybe we are kids at heart. But People watch your kids. Come on, what if I was the bad biker Bitch I look like. What if my concealed gun was not there to protect you and your kids but was there for bad things. How do you really know. In this day and age it amazes me that people will just let their kids wonder off and set with a stranger. But it happens every time I go to something like that. At least ONE kid will find me. Sure sometimes the parent notices and the kid gets chewed out. But that kid should be taught better. If I offered any of them a ride on my Motorcycle I am sure they would jump on grinning, and away I could go.

When I take the dogs walking in the neighborhood I have to be rude to the kids and tell them that my Min Pin will bite them. He might snap at them and he does growl so I can usually get them to stay in their yard. So do you need to put the invisible electric fence on your kids, Maybe the one that gives them a range... Ok so maybe not but WATCH them if you are going to let them play in the front yard where people walk by on the sidewalks and you do not have a fence.

What if I was the bad guy.. Hummmm what if...