Dear Queenie,
The other day when my son and I were coming out of the supermarket a couple of young punks accosted us in the parking lot and demanded that I hand over my wallet. Then they grabbed it and ran.
Afterward my son asked me why I just gave in and didn’t try to resist them. He made me feel like I had let him down.
Queenie, how do I make this to up him and get over it myself?—Robbed
Dear Robbed,
If you and your son have a karate black belt, perhaps you could have resisted the robbers without getting hurt – or they might have pulled some sort of weapon on you and one or both of you might have ended up in the hospital as well as being robbed. Professional law enforcement officials advise not resisting in such cases so as to avoid being physically harmed.
Consider yourself lucky – all you lost was money and whatever else was in your wallet, but otherwise you both came out of the encounter unharmed.
