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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2023-02-01 05:21 am (UTC)

Something about the advice struck me as downright wrong, and then I realized what it was: "off her phone".

LW, if you're worried about her, ask her to call *you* when she gets off the bus, and stay on the phone with you the whole way home. That way you'll know right away if anything goes wrong, you'll have a better idea of what the walk is really like, and you'll get a chance to talk to your granddaughter for five minutes or so every day. Win/win!

(And on the very small chance that there is a predator watching her while she walks a known route through a safe neighborhood, people who are visibly talking on their phones are safer, because the predator also knows there is someone on the other end who will know immediately that something is wrong.)

(Also, stop being racist. If there *is* a threat, it's most likely to be neighbors or police.)

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