Socialization (spontaneous)

Had an interesting encounter with a woman who keeps her kids at home and doesn't read them folktales because they (tales) are full of violence and cruelty.  Next breath, she tells me, kids around and all, that she doesn't recommend we go to town via the Bay Bridge because Bush needs another catastrophe right now, and it's almost 9/11.  Guess what, my freestyle-wrestling, rock-climbing, Tolkien-retelling kids were puzzled and scared and asked me on the way home in very small voices if we a going next time by BART or not at all.