I assume the cart with the baby was left in the store, thank God, and not in the parking lot...but the story doesn't actually say. Also wonder how many kids were involved to result in this kind of 'oversight', but, again, the inquiring minds at AP leave us wanting more.
To: WestTexasWend
MY GOD! HOW THE HECK DO YOU FORGET YOUR OWN CHILD??? I just don't understand these people? How preoccupied can they be?
2 posted on
12/19/2006 6:02:59 AM PST by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
To: WestTexasWend
Hey, if they left the kid in the car, this never would have happened.
4 posted on
12/19/2006 6:05:44 AM PST by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: WestTexasWend
Maybe he should think of his baby as a $3800 LCD HDTV....
5 posted on
12/19/2006 6:06:19 AM PST by
Dallas59
(Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
To: WestTexasWend
One thing I can deduce, FWIW, is that the baby is obviously not being breastfed. My wife would have never have left either of our children with me at 3 months while she went off shopping because (1) I would not be able to feed them, and (2) her breasts would become painfully rock-hard with milk.
The moral here? If you don't want your infant left alone in a Toys 'R' Us, you must breastfeed.
8 posted on
12/19/2006 6:11:31 AM PST by
King of Florida
(A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
To: WestTexasWend
10 posted on
12/19/2006 6:12:16 AM PST by
WestTexasWend
(NO OIL FOR APPEASERS)
To: WestTexasWend
But, did they get the PS3? That's what's really important this holiday season...
15 posted on
12/19/2006 6:15:41 AM PST by
Hegemony Cricket
(Attn. CBS Evening News chief: "Be a Hero - Save the World From this Cheerleader")
To: WestTexasWend
I grew up sailing large boats. This actually helped me get one or two useful habits (as a pathetic compensation for all the other bad ones). One was to repeat commands, to make sure that what I heard was what the other person said. The other was saying "You have the con," when we handed over responsibility for the care of the 'orrible brat child (now 23 y.o.) as one does when one hands over command at a watch change. There needed, I thought, to be clarity about expectations.
My wife thinks I'm only a little crazy.
18 posted on
12/19/2006 6:19:46 AM PST by
Mad Dawg
(Now we are all Massoud)
To: WestTexasWend
If it would have been a puppy I bet they wouldn't have forgot it.
22 posted on
12/19/2006 6:28:34 AM PST by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: WestTexasWend
My sisters Mother In-law left her baby boy in a stroller outside (this was in the 40's) a store and when she finished shopping she forgot him. When she arrived home her husband asked where the baby was?
The shrink he sent her to determined she wasn't insane.
26 posted on
12/19/2006 6:37:20 AM PST by
#1CTYankee
(That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
To: WestTexasWend
I just keep having images of that opening from the Simpsons where the grocery store clerk picks up baby Maggie out of Marge's shopping cart, runs her through the bar code scanner, and puts her in a shopping bag.
28 posted on
12/19/2006 6:38:29 AM PST by
Kenton
("The last time I raped Mother Earth all I got was a bad case of wood ticks")
To: WestTexasWend
I can remember when our children were little and we would take them shopping. Every time we went down a new isle 1,2,3,4 yep they are all here, every door we went through 1,2,3,4 check. In or out of the car 1,2,3,4 all here. I must have counted to four a million times, never lost a child.
34 posted on
12/19/2006 6:46:40 AM PST by
Between the Lines
(Liberalism: the insanity that results from too many people living in close proximity to one another.)
To: MeanWestTexan
41 posted on
12/19/2006 6:54:36 AM PST by
hispanarepublicana
(Funny, but I don't remember pressing 1 for English in 1994.)
To: WestTexasWend
When people "forget" children in cars or elsewhere, and those children die, the so-called parents should be sterilized.
To: WestTexasWend
Thankfully the baby was okay.
I can see how this could happen. The only reason it hasn't happened to me with our 5 kids is that I am extremely conscientious to the point of being obsessive. Most of the kids are grown now but in the past I have done a head count a thousand times to make sure we had them all. And, I used brightly colored clothes on the kids when we were out at a public place or event.
But, one time when my 4th was a month old baby, some friends from out of state were visiting and we all decided to go to town for ice cream or something and I happily headed out the door towards the car and the other mom exclaimed, "Isn't someone going to get the baby!!??" For a few minutes I actually forgot I had a baby. We all laugh now about that but it freaked me out for awhile!
Weird things happen.
50 posted on
12/19/2006 7:39:53 AM PST by
MTMS
To: WestTexasWend
..there is another Baby that the world seems to be forgetting about this time of year...
52 posted on
12/19/2006 7:53:36 AM PST by
WalterSkinner
( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
To: WestTexasWend
When I was a baby my parents left me at church one Sunday and didn't realize it until they had gotten home. They swear it wasn't on purpose.
To: WestTexasWend
I never forgot my kids anywhere, which is probably some sort of miracle since my younger son's nickname for me is "Captain ADD."
However, now that they're grown it seems that they leave me everywhere.... restaurants, shopping malls, church... every chance they get.... but they can't get rid of me that easily...
;-)
67 posted on
12/19/2006 9:45:39 AM PST by
pax_et_bonum
(I will always love you, Flyer.)
To: WestTexasWend
Dang! I hate when that happens! ;o)
71 posted on
12/19/2006 1:25:25 PM PST by
SuziQ
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