Disappointment.
A good friend of mine was informed that my neighborhood thinks he’s a pedophile. Let me explain.
In an effort to get some exercise, because he works from home, he has taken up walking in the mornings, just after six am. His route takes him past my house, down the road on the side of the middle school grounds to the neighborhood on the other side. He arrives back home before school begins. Today a man belonging to the maintenance staff at the school told him that people think he’s crazy because they see him walking every day past the school, in the cold, with shorts and a long coat on. Like a pedophile.
I want to say, that on behalf of my friend, I’m absolutely disgusted at the fact a wonderful father to two beautiful little children can be accused of being a pedophile because he walks the same route every day in the cold, wearing whatever feels comfortable to him.
I’m appalled to live in a place where grown men minding their own business walking down the street now have to completely avoid routes near schools to prevent these thoughtless and demeaning assumptions from being made. I hate that we as a community are alienating each other because of fear like this.
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Andrew Littler
I had a similar experience. At the end of a school year, I learned that this girl had been telling everyone I had been stalking her, as she would always see me biking outside her house.
When confronted, I told her that her house was on my way to work…