Another possibility is that some of them, at least, just weren't paying attention. People can be amazingly oblivious at times, I've found.
Then, of course, there's the way that many folk these days are terrified of so much as touching someone else's child,even to save them from injury, lest they be scooped up by the police, branded a paedophile and locked up for life.
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Date: 2008-08-29 11:45 am (UTC)Then, of course, there's the way that many folk these days are terrified of so much as touching someone else's child,even to save them from injury, lest they be scooped up by the police, branded a paedophile and locked up for life.