He has been working on the road for about 3 months now, and keeps being employed by others as he is good.
Every time we walk past he says hello, and seemed to find my DD particularly funny (she likes builders and prattles on about hammers and wearing a Bob The Builder Hat) so we tend to stop and say hello. She has recently been hammering nails into wood at nursery and was keen to show him. He said he thought she would be able to work for him soon and produced a packet of chewits. DD was thrilled, thanked him and we went home. I didn't find this at all creepy. However the next day my friend came back from nursery for lunch with us and again the builder gave DD a packet of chewits, she said thanks and we went off home. My friend was pretty shocked and said she would never allow her DD to take sweets from strangers and asked if I wasn't worried this was teaching DD it is OK? I tried to explain we feel we know him as he is always there when we walk past, but I suppose really we don't know him... So I thought perhaps if DD makes him a thank you card he won't feel he has to continue it and it can just fizzle. I wanted DD to thank him properly anyway, so she made a card and I wrote a thank you from her and gave it to him on Wednesday.
We've just been past again and today he gave 2 lollipops and 2 packs of chewits as he wasn't there yesterday and there's a sweet for each day of the weekend. It seems a lot but I am now a little torn - should I be worried? Am I being naive? Or am I feeling pressure to find a problem here?
I thought the collective wisdom of MN could help!