Posted on 08/30/2015 3:57:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Funny, that’s exactly the first thing I thought of...
I can understand. When my two kids were small, my wife put them both in the car to do some shopping. She had to load the car seat, the baby bucket, the various bags, blankets, etc. Finally, after she loaded everything, she backed out of the garage. She forgot only one thing! She forgot to open the garage door.
My 2 aunts had 4 kids ea and my mom had me so almost everywhere we went we had 9 kids. One of my younger cousins was quiet and a loner. He’d sit in the back of the house all alone for hours playing with his small cars. I can remember we left him on a couple of occasions. When we’d run back to pick him up he’d still be in the same place still playing. Those were different times. Lol
Sometimes that doesn't work either...
Wife and I have six children, years ago we were leaving Church and I did a head count 1, 2 ,3 ,4, 5, 6 little heads in the minivan...Check...off we go..
Unbeknownst to my wife and I one of my kids invited a friend over that day that made the headcount correct...
Yup, we left our youngest daughter at church...
Youth Pastor dropped her off about a half an hour later...
I haven’t heard that before?
I was living in Florida at the time......the story we had is the mom left him in front of the videos at Sears while she shopped for lamps in the same store.
When she returned ....he was gone.
The baby was spotted almost immediately by an off-duty Phoenix police officer, who took the infant into a nearby Supercuts salon.
Supercuts? WTH?
He (or she) was fast asleep.
Yep. Sometimes you just lose it!
One time we went to church in two cars. After church, I thought my husband got the child out of the church nursery - he thought I got the child - we both got home and NO CHILD. Husband raced back to nursery and they were waiting on one of us to come back and get him. That didn’t happen again.
No, she was driving out 20 minutes and back 20 once she realized she left the baby. Or maybe it was out 30, back 10...it would have been if it was me driving. Cut the lady a break. She had three other kids under the age of 8 in the car. It makes me exhausted just thinking about it.
At your prompting, I keyword searched this story and they seem to say that Adam’s mom let him play video games in the electronics department while she shopped elsewhere in the department store. A young security guards asked the teenaged kids who were playing video games with or next to Adam to leave because they were causing a ruckus. It appears Adam went with the flow, leaving the store and found himself outside one of the store entrances where he was lured into a Cadillac by the monster who killed him.
Still, don’t take your eyes off ‘em. It’s probably worse now that we have a “do whatever your evil heart desires” society today.
It makes me wonder if they’ve had other people leave the kid in the store while getting a haircut, or if he assumed the mother was one of the staff at the business next door.
We’ve had women here in Phoenix leave their kids in a car in 105 degree heat while they go into a bar. Another went to a job interview and left her kid out in the car. This was a completely different situation.
Where you store your treasure so also is your heart.
I had 5 in six years.
Things like this can happen.
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She left a 3 year old in a car while she was in the store running errands? And the other kids too?
I think it means she never took the kids out of the car once they were in.
I'm not so sure. What she said seems to indicate that didn't even remember taking him out of the car into the store with her.
How on earth could she think he was in the car the whole time when she left him at the store? She didn't remember taking him out, which is the only way he could have gotten where he was?
It doesn't make sense.
I had 20. Counted them all the time, but still left one or two occasionally—but never the babies. It was always the older kids who knew what “load up” meant. The van always looked full to me...
It happened once to Mary and Joseph.
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