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Do you ever give unsolicited advice?
So I'm in the grocery store today, picking out a few tomatoes, and I look over to see a lady chatting on her cell phone while picking through the apples. Her cart is about 6 feet away, and her purse is sitting in the front, wide open. She's paying absolutely no attention to it at all.
Being a cop, I felt the urge to walk over to her and explain how where I work we recently had a half dozen or so cases of someone grabbing purses out of unattended carts and running out. I was going to tell her to be more careful, but I thought twice about it... I didn't know how well my good intentions would be received.
It's one thing to give unsolicited advice to a friend, but what about a stranger? Should I have talked to her or not?
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