Thin Privilege is being able to catch a child running towards the road! Setting the scene: Went to get some petrol this morning. Pre-coffee so I'm sort of staring mindlessly at the pump. Now this petrol station is attached to the carpark of a shopping centre. You enter the forecourt through the carpark, but running parallel to it is a very busy main road. Anyway, suddenly the air was rent by a shrill, ear piercing "REEEEE! REEEEE! REEEEEEEEEE!" Spin around thinking it's some new sonic weapon. But no! A planet of ham. must have been 5'4 and easily 200lbs and she's red in the face shrieking into the face of (I presume) her probably 5 year old child. Poor kid is in floods of tears and she just keeps going "REEEEEE!!!"  Then the kid just bolts. Runs straight towards the road. But he's got his head turned away from the road to scream at his mom. Does she give heroic chase? ...of course fucking not, she just shrieks louder and sort of half waddles.  I dropped my petrol pump and shot off towards him, managed to clear the little fence around the edge of the station and catch him before his foot touch the road, luckily a few cars had seen him and started to brake. Haul the kid clear and walk him back to his mom...who hasn't fucking moved!  Oh, and she didn't say a word to me, just grabbed his arm and dragged him away still screaming! Tl;dr: Ham screams at child, child runs towards road, I catch kid, Ham keeps screaming.