my co-worker and i saw a child wandering around the parking lot this morning. when we asked where were his parents, he said didn't know. you could see the sadness and fear in this poor kids eyes. we thought maybe he wandered off. nope.
he told us that he wen to use the restroom and whn he came out they were gone. my co-worker and i remained calmed. especially for the kid's sake. i asked what kind of vehicle was he in,and we looked around the area. however this was pretty early and that kid of van would've stood out amongst the few vehicles that were there. i got him a soda, and walked him around he grounds retracing his steps. nothing. other staff members were shocked. at this point i was livid. how the fuck do you forget a child? he told me he was six years old, and from out of state. however he did know his mom's (if that's what you want to call her)number. i called it...nothing. as we talked he made me laugh as i tried t make him laugh and ease his stress. my co-worker was caring yet wasn't too worried. "she'll be back." and kept trying to convince me not to call the police. i gave that 10 more minutes and then called. as i was on he phone with the officer, his mother and, what i believe was his grandmother, showed up.
yeah..she reached out and hugged him. he burst into tears. the grandmoter sort of looked dazed. my co worker said everything was ok and comforted the woman. though her she couldn't speak Englishvery well..if any at all, apart from a word here or there, i think the look i gave her transended language barriers.

the police sad..ok. as long as everythign appeared ok they were stopping the call out to a loal officer. basically the womn's explination was, that she thought he was in the vehicle. so it took her an hour to realize he was gone?
my co-worker said..'it happens.' andshe was sayig the van was probably full of people. i checked. nope. just stupid mother and her mother. no one else. in a caravan of people, yes..i can see that. and considering te nature of their visit, ican se someone being a little absent minded. but c'mon. how do you no remember your child or at least make sure he/she is in the car with you?

her husband called and she was trying to explan the situation with her fake tears. she thanked us and huged my co worker , but didn't come near me. smart move.

fucking dumb cunt



am i over reacting???

CHICO!

You are not overreacting. Could you imagine if it was a predator instead of you seeing the little child. They are so lucky that you were there.

I think that if I had a child and I had not seen him around me for 2 seconds I would freak.


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I'm sorry, but no decent parent would forget their child for an hour!!! I'm an aunt and when I have my nephews, I never forget them. I even look in my rear-view mirror to see what their doing and I talk to them. WTF??? This ain't "Home Alone"

I found a distraught 3 year old in the carpark at school. He was hysterical, just screaming mummy, mummy all the time - like an animal. I didn't know who's kid he was. Me and another mum herded him towards the principal's office. His mum came walking from the other side of the school after a time, didn't thank us or anything. I did not understand how they got separated for so long - you do NOT take your eyes off a 3yo for one second.
Anyway, when I got home that morning I bawled my eyes out, because of how scared that little boy was and how I would feel if it had been me without my mum, or one of my boys without me.

That's a damn shame and if the police had really come out there she would've deserved them letting child services know about the whole incident. Thank God for decent people like you CHICO .

that's crazy...my mom used to hide from me outside to see what i would do if i was alone....it was stupid.

unlucky7 said:

THAT's crazy

i don't see how people do this. sometimes i babysit for my sister. my 3 plus her 6. i don't forget any body. i keep 'em all lined up like ducks , damn if they cant keep track of one then wtf? i feel bad for that baby. i hope everything is okay with him

ZombieKitten said:

kinda traumatizing

brownsugar said:

OMG!!!! 6!!!!!

althom said:

OMG

althom said:

yup! 12,9, 8, 7, 3, and 2. i don't know how she does it but she does

ZombieKitten said:

3 boys and 3 girls

brownsugar said:

far out!!!!

althom said:

I'm the youngest of six...what about it?!

And, Chico, you have absolutley every right to be pissed off. I would have clocked the woman. I wish the police would have shown up to scare some sense into her.
It just kills me that there are people out there who have beautiful children entrusted to them and they do these things while there are so many of us out there who would be so happy to be as blessed as they are.

I usually don't read long posts, but the title grabbed me...

I have to tell you...this made my stomach turn! I can imagine...vividly, the fear this child felt....

I have a few stories both as a child myself and as a father for losing one's parent/child.... I will say this , as a young father, I wasn't great at keeping an eye on my two oldest...they wouldn't go far, but as for a 16 month, 100 feet is too fucking far... , so with that being said, I was working on one of my vehicles, and I was alone with the two oldest, when my 16 month old daughter at the time (years ago), walked out the back door and was 2 blocks away on a different street, when an unknown neighbor picked her up and started looking for her parents I feel sick telling this story.....

I was not a very attentive YOUNG father....but I have since stepped up BIG....and uhhhhgh...I feel sick....

oh wow!

poor baby,

pardonme
you are a brave man I don't know if I would have shared that story here. But the fact that angels were looking out for your daughter and that baby chico found just goes to show how fortunate we sometimes are. You don't take those blessings/gifts too lightly.


now go in peace

I keep trying to forget both of mine, but they always find their way back home.

We were in the pub on Saturday afternoon for a few pints.
A couple of girls i knew came in with their kids and had lunch at a table across from us.The tables in the bar area are really high about 4ft off the ground and the stools are tall to compensate that.All the mums were sitting up at the table and one of the kids was on the floor trying to climb onto the stool but the way she was doing it she was going to make the stool fall on her.Your lucky if she was 3 years old so the stool was taller than her.
I said to one of the mums to grab the stool because she was going to have an accident,she looked at me as if i was the dick but she grabbed hold of the top of the stool, just in time because it would have been pulled over by her daughter, and the girl climbed up.
I could see what was going to happen but she didnt seem to bothered.
About 5 minutes later the girl was eating and kneeling ontop of the stool but when she wasnt she was using both hands to push herself backwards so that only the back two legs of the stool was on the ground.It looked precarious(sp) to say the least but again her mother didnt seem to phased by it.Im glad a barmaid went by her and pulled her stool further out from the table to stop her because i was about 10 seconds from doing it myself.
To cut a long story short,one of the mums sons(again only a toddler) slid off the window sill and knocked 2 teeth out againts the top a stool and cut his lip also.The kid shouldnt have been sat on a window sill that was just big enoungh for his backside to fit, i couldnt believe how these young mothers had so many warnings that an accident was going to happen but chose to ignore nearly all of them.

butterfli25 said:

Thanks....I think maybe only 3 or 4 people in the world knew this story before today...I won't fail them again....

muirdo said:

stupid!

When I was 6 my parents 4got me. It was snowing and cold. I was crying afraid. I remember I've stayed 1 hour in front off the school and a lady was helping me when my parents remembered me....SHAME ON THEM!

When I was a kid it was up to me to keep track of my parents, at least when they were drinking cos they didn't remember shit then. They forgot me at a friend's house when I was about 3 or something, I'd crawled into a closet to get some sleep and they went home without me. At some point they remembered they were missing a toddler and a push chair so they called the friends, who then started looking for me. They were more upset than I was about it, I was sleeping. I didn't care too much even back then, I was on my own.

muirdo said:

Hi Muirdo!



My god, some of these wee lassies really grind on me with this sort of carry on.
Its like the most important thing is their social life.... the kids are just there as a hinderence because they couldn't get a babysitter or summit

at walmart tonight there was a kid (maybe 3) walking around the parking lot
it was getting dark and you know how much traffic there is in front of walmart
he was holding a huge assed train set that he i guess he had just walked out of the store with

i kept looking around for someone frantic that he was missing but there didn't seem to be anyone
he wouldn't tell me anything just hid behind the train set box lol
and when i told him we should head back into the store he just kind of walked out into traffic - no fear

i enlisted the help of another couple and while i was heading over to the customer service desk they managed to come across the boy's father
lol when i got back he had just picked his son up and was doing the embarrassed "he's fine now" routine
lol kid was crying because his father had said no to the train set

i bet this kid is so fast they hadn't even realized he was gone
but what is scary is that he had made it outside the store without anyone noticing!
i could have been anyone and could have just picked him up and carted him away
he probably would have cried but who would have paid any attention to a screaming kid in a walmart parking lot??

Abbie said:

Abbie
where the hell have you been?
hope everythings fine.
I remember lifting you off the ground in a pub in Edinburgh,people in there must have thought we were nutters

althom said:

Never mind 6..... 3 + 6 = 9!!! That's a whole friggin' kindergarten!

I guess poor brownsugar has to start sawing up boards for yet another bed...or half a dozen.

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