I can’t stop thinking of this so just posting now- the other day I was at a station and the escalator was unexpectedly out of service, and I witnessed a random man offer to help a woman who was carrying a child and pushing along a pushchair - but bizarrely, he offered to carry the baby for her, not the pram.... it was all a bit weird- she accepted (I wouldn’t have allowed my baby into a stranger’s arms) but then she had the awkwardness of carrying the pram up and over. She wasn’t particularly struggling with the pram, otherwise I would’ve helped her, but, I just thought how very odd that this man offered to take her child rather than the pram? I kept eyes on him as it felt odd to me - she had to shout at him to stop and come back as he was casually walking off towards the barriers with her baby before she collected herself at the bottom. All was well, he duly handed her baby back, but - AIBU that this was just baffling that if he was really trying to help this woman, he didn’t offer to help her with the pram instead of the baby? What on earth was he thinking, as he obviously didn’t have bad motives? And her agreeing to a stranger to carry her baby!?! Anyone else witnessed something like this, where it’s an offer of help, but just not what would be the most normal way of carrying it out??
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