Re: Right place right time
I can only think of once in my life when I was in the right place at the right time when one of my granddaughters was surrounded in the street by about four bullying girls from her school, (she was about 14 then and biased as I always am, a very pretty young girl. Some of the bullies were, well let's just say, rather ugly on the outside as well as the inside).
Anyway, one look at her face as I walked towards her showed me she was in for a battering, so I walked straight into the circle, turned to one of the girls and said," How's your mum?" (didn't know her mum at all), "I see her most weeks, tell her Clare's Nan (my granddaughter in the circle) sends her best wishes".
It worked anyway, because she smiled and said "I will", and with that I grabbed Clare's hand and said "Come on, dawdler, standing here chatting with your mates instead of helping your mum with dinner", I said "Bye girls", and we walked away quickly.
She told me on the way home that she was able to take care of herself if with her own friends, but she was late leaving school that day and got cornered by that lot who had been on the corner chatting.
So guess I was in the right place at the right time.