lost child

[what..the?]

I just went into town and as a entered woolworths there was a mother shouting for her child.

As time went on and I went to the other end of the shop you could hear the mother louder and louder and her voice changing as she became more and more worried.

I started to see shop assistants walking the aisles looking for the child and and people talking about what the child looked like.

It was just horrible, they still hadn't found the child when I left but being there it really paniced you to hear what was going and the mothers voice it was horrible.

Have you seen anything like this or lost a child yourself.

[4getmenot]

yes that was exactly it :-(

[sleepyj]

when my son was 8 he went missing for 5 hours had police helicopter out for him .

[annie0000]

Lost my 7 year in woolies a week past Saturday!

Me, hubby and two boys (8 and 7) walking through the shopping centre when we got perstered for a trip into woolies- I thought that they had both belted off ahead and I could see 8 year old on escalator heading for toys - I caught up with him and thought that little bro had beaten him up the escalator, but there was no sign of him. As there is no down escalator - I am then shouting back down to my husband at the bottom and asking if he is with him - apparantly not, so he starts searching downstairs while I have to double back to the other end of the shop to get down the stairs. We headed for the door with husband in the lead - back into the shopping centre only to spot my husband walking back with him - he hadn't gone into the shop, just wanled right past and then suddenly realised he was on his own and started howling. A lady asked if if he was okay and called a security guard. At which point my husband had spotted the sleeve of bright blue top he was wearing sticking out from the side of a big display stand.

He was really upset and I think he has learned his lesson to stay close by. He knows the town centre well (it's not big), and he knows to wait by the doors or find a security guard, but we were all in a panic. When I was that age, I used to go into the centre of Edinburgh on the bus with my friends, but I think he is a bit more sheltered!

Hope it all turned our well in the end.

[4getmenot]

where was he sleepy??

[pinkkitty]

I haven't got a child to lose, but i was the kind of child who was forever wandering off and looking for adventures so i was always getting lost. I remember losing my mum in Sainsbury's and i was eventually found by an assistant who took me round all the aisles looking for my mother. We found her eventually, and the assistand took me over and said to my mum "is this your little girl?" to which my mum replied "nope. never seen her before in my life" and walked off. she was trying to teach me a lesson, i think.

[sara3]

nice one, Jillius.. great story!

(sorry, I'm late!)