When my son was about 5 years old, we were at the local Home Depot... and assuming Mrs. Neo had him in tow... I walked down the aisle and headed for lumber heaven. After about five minutes, I caught up with my wife, who, of course, was all on her lonesome.
I won't try to describe the absolute, adrenalin fueled terror that ran through me as I ran to notify the store staff... who promptly locked down all the exits... or what was going through my mind as I fired up my vehicle and cruised up and down the parking lot... looking for a flash of blue snowsuit.
Of course, a couple of minutes later it was all over when a staffer found him blithely pushing an empty shopping cart down an aisle... explaining to anyone who asked, "I'm looking for my Dad."
That's why I just can't get my head around this...
-- JERUSALEM -- An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free purchases and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said yesterday.To this day, I'm still not sure what I would have done if I had seen a blue snowsuited child driving away in somebody's car... but I'm thinkin' it wouldn't have been pretty.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport.
Rosenfeld said the parents were unaware of the missing child until informed by cabin staff after 40 minutes in the air.
It's a lesson I won't forget.
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