How Sad

Sorry to be serious for once but we had an incident here worth reporting.
Two british couples came to dine early one evening bringing with them two children, a toddler and a baby in a pram
J served them their meals on the terrace but one of the mothers wasn't at the table. She was pushing the pram around the car park, trying to get the baby to sleep. A few minutes later with her dinner getting cold, she was still walking round. J went across to her and offered to take over whilst the lady ate.
She walked the baby for a couple of minutes and then decided to take the pram onto a different surface so went out of the car park round the corner.
At this one of the gents jumped up and looked over, started across the car park and then returned. A lively discussion was going on and the second gent then got up and ran across the car park, and up the road to where J was with the pram. J had turned round and was heading back when she was met by the gent who announced that " we were very worried when we couldn't see the baby"

What have we done to our society where we have got to the point we have so little trust or so much mistrust. They were sitting on our terrace, outside our home and panicked when the baby was out of their sight for no more than 5 minutes and I was in the bar.
What will become of those kids if the are so protected as they grow up? They will never learn to fend for themselves if the parents are forever looking out for them. I agree there are dangers in this world but what chance have we got if we trust nobody.
Surely we should consider the "dangers" on their merits, a granny who offers baby pushing services whilst a mother eats, seems to be a fairly low risk.

And the worst thing, no other customer is likley to get asked if we can help them in the same way