When Son2 was little he had the annoying (and frustrating,
and SCARY)
habit of wandering away from us when we were in public. To the point where both
Husband and I would hold onto his wrist with a death grip.
We initiated this
practice the MINUTE after he dashed out of the limousine and into the crowd
to see the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Plaza……giving his mother a heart
attack!
We would try and give him a little freedom where we thought
it would be safe.
One such place/occasion was when we went to Barnes &
Noble bookstore. How much trouble could he get into in a bookstore I reasoned? I
would deposit him in the kids section and tell him I would be in arts and
crafts if he needed me. A short time later I went to look for him but he wasn’t
in the kids section anymore.
Being used to his meandering I wasn’t worried. I started to
look for him. I looked in the café, no Son2….I looked in the magazine
section…..no Son2…..this particular store had a magic section so I looked
there….nope….no kid……
I went back to the arts and crafts section thinking he
went there to find me and that’s when I heard over the loudspeaker: “Will
Son2’s mother please come to the information desk. He says you’re lost.”
LOL
I had to laugh because of course HE wasn’t lost, I was!
When I got to him he was upset and mad at ME
for not being where I said I would be!
I think he finally got the point though because after that
he didn’t seem to wander quite so far or so often……
LOL! Mothers are a nuisance getting lost all the time!
ReplyDelete....and it had to be ANNOUNCED over a LOUDSPEAKER in PUBLIC. And I would have gone for subtle in private, as if! 🤣
ReplyDeleteWell, that taught you! :-D
ReplyDeleteI hate that sinking feeling you get when you turn around and they are not there. It happened to me once when my daughter was little when she wandered just a few feet outside a shop door to watch a street entertainer.
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