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Comment by HSO

3 hours ago

It´s already a long time ago, I was on my way home when I saw a young boy crying. Turns out he got disconnected from his parents on public transport and totally lost where he was in some other part of town. When I tried to calm him down, I was making sure to stand several meters apart. We called his mother on my phone and I actually brought him to the station where she would pick him up. The whole time, I was keeping several meters distance and making sure to speak extra loud and formally, to make clear what I was doing with a crying child from a different ethnicity obv not mine. This was in a semi-civilized country in europe, not the "US". And still I was worried it would "look wrong". Weird times.