Brian in STL has it, I think. We’ve become so fearful of strangers that something that would have been NBD when I was a kid, is call-the-police time now.
Brian and Chak – I see that as a variant on “Kids/Parents these days”, but just as a specific cause. I didn’t see it nearly that dark. I saw it as a statement that today kids going out to play with other neighborhood kids is a foreign concept to parents so they don’t know how to respond. It could be a comment on helicopter parenting or just that kids spend so much time on screens this is no longer a thing.
No matter the motivation, it is all just a joke about “Kids/parents these days” as Jack Applin noted.
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Wait, do they actually have a child at all?
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@Mitch4: If they didn’t have a child, the wife would probably have said, “Who’s Henry?”
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“Tell him to wait until his background check completes.”
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Brian in STL has it, I think. We’ve become so fearful of strangers that something that would have been NBD when I was a kid, is call-the-police time now.
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Brian and Chak – I see that as a variant on “Kids/Parents these days”, but just as a specific cause. I didn’t see it nearly that dark. I saw it as a statement that today kids going out to play with other neighborhood kids is a foreign concept to parents so they don’t know how to respond. It could be a comment on helicopter parenting or just that kids spend so much time on screens this is no longer a thing.
No matter the motivation, it is all just a joke about “Kids/parents these days” as Jack Applin noted.
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