Posted on 08/17/2019 3:56:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
That's a different type of forgetting than described here.
My parents drove home from church once with the other two kids and left me behind in the nursery
I'm thinking you weren't in much danger /grin
Here again is where having an IQ over 10 benefits me greatly. I will cease arguing with someone who equates a garage door with a baby.
Ha. Unlike the AGW kooks, I'm not claiming science. It's opinion and perfectly open to being disproved by.....hard science. Which is probably impossible with this topic.
Find me an AGW kook who admits his belief is opinion.
People who decide to drive around barricades through rushing water in low areas after a thunderstorm and have to be rescued when their cars are swept downstream.
And people who leave their kids or pets in the hot cars while they go inside a store to shop.
Both activities can be deadly.
But both are deliberate acts of people who are not very bright.
How can ANY PARENT spend a summer in Arizona with small kids? Why didn’t she go to Seattle or something. She needs to be STRUNG UP for putting her kids in such danger by living there.
I can relate with you. My parents were terrific. Yet, one day, when I was about 9 years old, my dad completely forgot to pick me up from soccer practice. Well, minutes turned to hours as I told other parents that I’d be fine. As nightfall set in, dad came home from his long day and asked where Little Billy was. They figured it out really quickly and Dad sped over to find me in the parking lot. I didn’t lose faith but I was definitely concerned. Dad showed up and apologized PROFUSELY!! (The only time he ever did.) I didn’t think it was that big of a deal but he was so upset that I started crying! He accidentally turned me into a “victim”! I’ve long known how that psychology works.
I think forgetting a baby is a little different. One can lose track of kids who are mobile on their own and able to get in and out of cars without help. But babies are a whole lot different because you would realize quickly the kid isn’t in the shopping cart basket or you don’t remember hauling him or her out of the seat while they fussed. On a side note, after I lost a seventeen-month-old to SIDS, it was months before I stopped feeling I was missing some steps each time I went in a car.
You have a virtue that is now rare friend...
Expendable?
By all means, never give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
Someday you’ll have the favor returned.
“My parents drove home from church once with the other two kids and left me behind in the nursery and didn’t figure it out until they got home.”
Did this turn out like the Ransom of Red Chief:)
And how do you obtain final proof?
My mom had four kids and a husband in Vietnam... but she never left one of us in the damn car.
I surprised one of the 3 others kids didn’t ask... where’s the baby.
I don’t think that is the only state they do that.
Like many times in life, you can never get final proof. Ambiguity - welcome to real life. Sometimes even people who watch something happen aren't positive about what they saw.
Again, E Pluribus, I think the mom was impaired/drunk/both.
Do you live in a place like Phoenix? I do. The summer heat here is incredibly dangerous. How any parent could ignore the blast furnace while taking care of a baby is just mind-boggling to me.
I’m not calling her evil, I am giving her the benefit of the doubt.
By the grace of God, her baby is still alive and not permanently brain-damaged.
Roger that.
To me, people who leave their kids in their car are guilty of attempted murder unless proven otherwise.
There were seven kids in my family. Nobody ever got misplaced, forgotten about, or left behind, ever.
My parents were very serious about taking good care of us.
” On a side note, after I lost a seventeen-month-old to SIDS, it was months before I stopped feeling I was missing some steps each time I went in a car.”
So sorry to hear that. May God bless. My heart goes out to you and yours.
Sincerely, -C
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