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- From: lynn@elan.Elan.COM (Lynn Gazis)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Leaving kids alone (was Re: The Schoo Didn't Fit)
- Message-ID: <1265@elan.Elan.COM>
- Date: 15 Jan 93 18:00:10 GMT
- References: <2479@shaman.wv.tek.com> <80009@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan13.210903.16910@advtech.uswest.com> <1993Jan14.145214.596@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- Reply-To: lynn@elan (Lynn Gazis)
- Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- Actually, I believe we did talk about it when things like this
- happened.
-
- 1. Once when I was walking home from school, a man offered
- me a ride. I was 16 and old enough to be warned about getting
- rides from strangers, but for some reason I thought he was
- someone from church (I often got offered rides by my mother's
- friends from church). Once I got in, he started suggesting
- I go with him for a ride somewhere. I repeated "My mother
- is expecting me home" until he took me home (my backup plan
- was to hit him with my schoolbooks and run). As soon as I
- got home, I told Mom and one of my sisters exactly what
- happened.
-
- 2. Once, when I was in high school, I took an obscene phone
- call. I didn't quite realize it was an obscene phone call
- until I had hung up, because the guy was mumbling so much
- that all I could make out was that he appeared to be offering
- me some kind of job. After declining the offer, I spent
- a little time piecing together the words and guessing at
- what words could sound similar to the nonsensical ones I
- had heard, guessed what had happened, and immediately went
- to the next room to tell my sisters (and laugh about it).
- I don't remember for sure whether I told my mother when she
- got home, but I almost certainly did.
-
- 3. I think I remember that one of my siblings saw an exhibitionist
- and told my mother.
-
- My mother was open and relaxed about answering all of our questions
- about sex, and there were plenty of books around the house (like
- Our Bodies, Our Selves) that we could look at if she wasn't around
- or was busy or we didn't feel like asking her.
-
- Lynn Gazis-Sax
-
-