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Did a four minute mile today, son shouted downstairs that a little tot from the other side of the street was running up and down and no sign of an adult.
She runs off like that frequently ,but parked cars nose to tail and traffic going up and down - had she left the pavement any driver would not have seen her come from between two vehicles until it was too late ,No sign of her mother.She is two! I dashed out and got hold of her,mother was there but hidden from me by a van.I explained to her mother we could see the little girl running but could not see her and it was dangerous ,her daughter could have crossed the road from between two parked vehicles and been knocked down.
Mum laughed and said she was always doing it!
Lady is from Nigeria, is a Nurse and it surprised me how nonchalant and realaxed she was about it all,I was more worried than she was.
Cheerio.zLook after yourselves .
Viktoria.
My tots all wore a harness and reins. Even at early ages they often move like quick silver. When OH was in the forces a tot vanished from a large popular and busy supermarket.. She had skipped along in front of both her parents to the main doors but when her parents walked through the doors their daughter had vanished never to be seen again.
Roll forward about three years and I was back in England listening to the radio when a military policeman asked listeners if they had any news or views on a small girl who had vanished (from the same store). I 'phoned and said it was a copycat of a kidnapping when we were there spring 1966 so maybe they could gain some information from the previous incident.
Back in England I was in my bank queueing up (as you did in those days) when a little girl toddled in behind a customer. From both their attitude neither belonged to the other. Then an old man pushed open the doors and looked around (for the child). We both escorted the child out of the bank and the old gent indicated the direction he'd noticed the child coming from. ( I thought it prudent to stay with the chap as he could very well have been accused of something he hadn't done.) We retraced the child's steps and eventually a woman came out of a shop doorway obviously distraught - we'd found the mother of the unconcerned tot.
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