I Thought You Had Him!
How many times have you said something like that? It could be the house keys you were talking about, or a special dish for a family gathering. We are all at times, guilty of assuming that someone else has taken responsibiIity for something, only to discover we were supposed to have done it or the other person forgot.
I found this on Yahoo! News this morning.
AFP - Tuesday, May 13 07:06 pm
OTTAWA (AFP) - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops.
A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media said Tuesday.
The 23-month-old boy's family had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines, but they were forced to repack their overweight bags before catching a connecting flight to Winnipeg, causing them to run late.
In their sprint to the gate, the family became separated.
The boy's father Jun Parreno, told local media he had thought his son was with his wife and the boy's grandparents, who ran ahead. They thought the boy was with his dad.
On the plane, the family members were seated separately and so did not immediately realize they had left the child behind.
Sometime later, a security guard found the boy, who speaks no English, wandering near the departure gate, and Air Canada officials tracked down his shocked parents on the flight.
Because the boy was so young, he was not issued a boarding pass and would have sat on a parent's lap during the flight, so airline personnel did not notice a passenger was missing.
According to the Vancouver Sun, airport security found a Tagalog-speaking Air Canada agent who looked after the child while his father flew 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) back to Vancouver to pick him up and then return to Winnipeg to rejoin the immigrant family on their first day in Canada.
The baby was kept in Air Canada's offices and staff found him some toys, said local media.
"Air Canada took good care of him," Parreno told the daily Winnipeg Free Press upon arrival. "I'm grateful."
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Sister in law left her son at the church after his First Communion. We all got back to the house and realised he was not there - SIL rushed back to the church and he was kicking a soccer ball around with some other kids.
There was one shop in town where I could guarantee I would lose someone. The way Woolies is laid out, it's not fabulously lined up so if one of the kids runs off you can see them. I lost track of how many times Number One Son would look at me with his cheeky face and pull away and run. Number Two Son would then be told to watch his sisters and whilst I was gathering NOS, NTS would run off towards the boy's toys and the girls would climb out of the buggy (they were mobile very early) and crawl/toddle off after him. It turned into a game to them that was always played out in Woolies and I wouldn't go in if I really didn't have to.
One thing that was a boon to me was a pair of bright green wellies. When NOS tried the trick in other shops or on the market, all I had to do was get down to the floor and look under the clothes racks or stalls and look for a flash of acid green running and I could gather him up!
It's funny that this is "world news" to you.... the Vancouver airport is 1/2 hour away from me! ;-)
Crazy story!