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I’m not sure what you’re getting at, that is what happened. The only thing to add is that a few years later I noticed the house had been torn down and all the t

I’m not sure what you’re getting at, that is what happened. The only thing to add is that a few years later I noticed the house had been torn down and all the trees and bushes cleared off the lot. I have no idea of the circumstances surrounding that.

JoeAltmaier 7y ago
I'm just guessing the talk with the kids might have gone a little different than what was recounted. Sounds all rational and even-tempered. Perhaps some scolding or yelling was involved. We always remember ourselves as being perfectly polite in recounting stories.
- LanceH 7y ago
  Some parents are ready to fight you if you merely talk to their kids. Even more if you touch them -- like when you take away the chef's knife from the unattended five year old waving it around in the store. Also, if a story was miscommunicated I imagine it was the kids talking to their parents: "Everything was normal until this old guy flipped out." They probably never mentioned the dented hood and by the time the parents get over there they had already made up their minds.
  - AstralStorm 7y ago
    As a strategy against these kind of kids and people, I recommend bypassing. Do not talk to the kids. Take pictures, go to the parents directly.
- neilv 7y ago
  Someone who went out of their way to ask permission from their landlord, before letting kids in to pick fruit, might well be a modern day Mr. Rogers.
  - morganvachon 7y ago
    Not at all, it was more that the tree didn’t belong to me so I made sure the landlord was aware of the kids’ request, and that’s when he told me the previous tenant and he had allowed it. I was mostly worried about liability (kid falls and the parents sue me).
- morganvachon 7y ago
  No, it was pretty straightforward “hey I told you guys you could pick plums but I never said you could climb on my truck. Now it’s dented and I’ll have to fix it, so I’m not going to let you pick plums anymore”. I mean it was nearly 20 years ago so that’s paraphrasing, but that’s the tone I used.

JoeAltmaier 7y ago

I'm just guessing the talk with the kids might have gone a little different than what was recounted. Sounds all rational and even-tempered. Perhaps some scolding or yelling was involved. We always remember ourselves as being perfectly polite in recounting stories.

LanceH 7y ago
Some parents are ready to fight you if you merely talk to their kids. Even more if you touch them -- like when you take away the chef's knife from the unattended five year old waving it around in the store. Also, if a story was miscommunicated I imagine it was the kids talking to their parents: "Everything was normal until this old guy flipped out." They probably never mentioned the dented hood and by the time the parents get over there they had already made up their minds.
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  As a strategy against these kind of kids and people, I recommend bypassing. Do not talk to the kids. Take pictures, go to the parents directly.
neilv 7y ago
Someone who went out of their way to ask permission from their landlord, before letting kids in to pick fruit, might well be a modern day Mr. Rogers.
- morganvachon 7y ago
  Not at all, it was more that the tree didn’t belong to me so I made sure the landlord was aware of the kids’ request, and that’s when he told me the previous tenant and he had allowed it. I was mostly worried about liability (kid falls and the parents sue me).
morganvachon 7y ago
No, it was pretty straightforward “hey I told you guys you could pick plums but I never said you could climb on my truck. Now it’s dented and I’ll have to fix it, so I’m not going to let you pick plums anymore”. I mean it was nearly 20 years ago so that’s paraphrasing, but that’s the tone I used.