An old guy starts playing with your kid at the park

Some old guy, say retired, grey hair, approaches the playground and starts playing with the kids there. Showing them things like putting sand on the slide and sliding down it, and then he sits on the teeter totter and asks a kid to ride with him.
Would you, as a parent, freak out and call the police?

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SomeMichGuy · M

If the "kids" are big enough to activate the teeter-totter leverage with the old guy, I think we're ok.

JamesBugman · 56-60, T

@SomeMichGuy Oh yes true, maybe need 3 kids on that end.

SomeMichGuy · M

@JamesBugman In that case, I'd watch him.

He might just be lonely and the laughter of children is buoying.

But what's with the sand on the slide?

JamesBugman · 56-60, T

@SomeMichGuy Just something that's fun. Are you reading too much into that? What do you think the sand is meant to be? Maybe it's radioactive sand, or its not sand, its microdots that will capture children and whisk them away?

SomeMichGuy · M

@JamesBugman I've never done it, so I was asking.

JamesBugman · 56-60, T

@SomeMichGuy Actually what it does is it makes you go down the slide way faster, as long as it is dry.

SomeMichGuy · M

@JamesBugman Hmmm...ok...