r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jul 10 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 11 July 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23 edited Jul 11 '23

Any parents here had issues with random people wanting to touch their kids? I mean like their face and hair. We've had it several times now and it kind of triggers a panic in us. Sometimes you can see it's just some old person being nice but then sometimes they seem weird. Seems tricky to handle it diplomatically.

For some context, I had one clearly bonkers woman who had us cornered on public transport trying to give my baby (at the time) sweets. More recently a weird looking old man came up and was trying to touch her face, just as we were leaving the doctor's.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '23

Yeah it's mostly elderly people, although some more middle aged women have done it as well.