Dear Queenie,
When I was in the supermarket the other day I saw a child climbing up on the shelves to reach a product that was high out of his reach. His mother was nowhere in sight so I told him to get down from there before he knocked down the merchandise and maybe fell and hurt himself.
I wasn’t scolding or yelling at him, but his mother showed up and started yelling at me for telling her son anything.
Queenie, did I really do something wrong?—Careful shopper
Dear Shopper,
I think you were right to want to be sure the child did not hurt himself. However, it might have been better to alert the store’s staff or a security guard and let them handle the situation – assuming there was time to do so before everything came tumbling down.
