Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I made a recent friend, who I kind of knew from school like 20 years ago.  She met my daughter and said, "OMG, she's so cute, I'd love to kidnap her for an afternoon."  (I know a few people who actually were kidnapped, or whose child was kidnapped, and the wording was off-putting.)  She brought it up again and my husband and I as politely as one could in such a situation, explained something along the lines of her wording and enthusiasm being off putting and therefore her being an unlikely near future candidate as a babysitter.