OMG I forgot my son!

[funkypixie]

I am such a bad mother.

I took Xannie to nursery yesterday morning as normal but completely forgot to collect him again. I was sat using the 'puter when DH said 'by the way it's 1.20pm - should we have got Xan yet?'

Sh*t, b*gger, f*ck!

I drove like woman possessed, dumped the car on double yellow lines and ran through the school - good job the head couldn't see me! When I got there he looked at me and said 'Mummy, you're sooooooo early!'

I think he meant late unless he's got the sarcasm bug early.

Must try harder today. Now, where's that alarm clock?

Anna x

[Tensing]

I've done that before.

[Stonehead]

I know someone who, when they took their new baby out for the first time five days after giving birth, left it in the shopping trolley and drove off. They were flagged down by someone else in the car park who said "Haven't you forgotten someone?"

[Stonehead]

Another one was a very nice but somewhat absent-minded work colleague of the OH's.

The Other Half went out to the school carpark after work and saw her colleague's daughter standing there, watching as her mum drove away.

"Isn't that your mum?" asked the OH.

"Yes, she often forgets me!" was the reply. She's been at the same school her mum teaches at for three years...

[red]

just dont tell your son this story or he will use it to guilt trip you up when he is an adult

[Tensing]

I do that to my mum, after she left me in a pram outside the local shops and went home with the shopping.

[2steps]

I've looked up from doing something and realised 'arggggg no I should of left by now!!' a few times before now and gone racing up the street

[funkypixie]

I'm kind of glad it's not just me then!

Good point about not telling him though - I can just hear it now from the mouth of a stroppy 14 yr old "you don't care about me - you even left me at nursery" LOL.

Anna x

[zombiecazz]

I've had a watch stopping experience. So was at least 30 minutes late by the time I'd realised the time. Arrived at the school to find a forlorn little 5 year old.

When my kids used to go to childminders I was forever driving home and forgetting to pick them up. I never actually made it home, but you know when you go into that automatic mode on the way home from work, I would just switch off and drive.
5 minutes from home I'd think hmmm I think I'm missing something and have to turn round and go and collect them. Just luckily that the child minders lived so close.

[PurpleDragon]

Oh, this happens to us all the time. When i was down in England in March, Dh was in charge of two of the kids. One of my neighbours turned up at the door with No1Child having collected him from school because DH forgot the time.

Same period of time, I was shopping with Mum. I usually put No3Child in the trolley, but Mum insisted she went in the buggy. Don't know why I was walking up the aisle pushing the trolley having left child and buggy at the doors.

Left No1Child in the car when he was a baby - completely forgot he was in the car with me. That was in the driveway at home. I unloaded the groceries and Dh asked me if I'd forgotten something. I said "No - I left him in the car where he is safe till I get all the groceries inside" - to this day he doesn't know I did forget

[Stonehead]

I mentioned this discussion to a elderly friend I met in the village today.

She laughed and said, "That's nothing, I left my husband behind once".

They'd gone down to Edinburgh for the day, had done a few things together and then she went shopping while he went off to do some genealogy research.

After a couple of hours, a coffee and cake, and burdened with her buys, she trotted back to the car and drove off home. He couldn't call her as she doesn't have a mobile.

As a result, she only realised she didn't have her husband when she got to Dundee!!!

Apparently it took him several weeks to see the funny side.

[zombiecazz]

[the.fee.fairy]

the nearest i've got (not having children/husband) was leaving the dog.
I took him to the shop to buy a paper, then went home...right past him...
Didn't realise til about an hour later when i wondered where he was. I went back and he was still sitting dutifully outside the shop, giving me the 'you left me...how could you' face.

I felt so guilty!

[monkeynuts]

My sister, who lives opposite the local school, once left her youngest at nursery so long that the staff brought him over to her home!!

[Andy Hamilton]

Good point about not telling him though - I can just hear it now from the mouth of a stroppy 14 yr old "you don't care about me - you even left me at nursery" LOL.

Anna x

SO if ssish is still here in 14 years and he wants to search his mums posts.......