365: Red; March 3, Loner

I raised my kids in a really safe city but I was totally phobic about them being out of my sight. They weren't out in the neighbourhood without me or some adult and they still joke about how I wouldn't let them cross the road alone until they were 13 - which is an exaggeration but not by much.

I'm visiting my sister for a couple weeks. She lives in what I would call not the safest city in the US. It's full of tourists and because of the weather - mostly always warm, people are always out and up at all hours.
I took my little niece for a walk around the neighbourhood and crossed paths with this lone kid. I'm sure he's all of three houses away from his own place but it stll weirds me out to see a kid alone.