Re: Another heartbreaking Walmart story.

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

@1Snickers I am confused.🤔

You left your basket outside the restroom and when you came out you saw the child alone.

Did not you see a woman enter with the little boy? Once you left and saw the little girl why didn't you open the door and call out if the little girl belonged to anyone in the rest room?

Fifteen minutes is a long time to wait and regardless of others just shaking their heads there had to be an employee somewhere to call out to?

I don't see where she put the little boy in your basket as someone else said

I assume you mean a cart not a basket. Neither child would fit.

Dirty shoes are a given whenever a child is placed in a cart, btw.

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

@Cakers3 wrote:
@1Snickers I am confused.🤔

You left your basket outside the restroom and when you came out you saw the child alone.

Did not you see a woman enter with the little boy? Once you left and saw the little girl why didn't you open the door and call out if the little girl belonged to anyone in the rest room?

Fifteen minutes is a long time to wait and regardless of others just shaking their heads there had to be an employee somewhere to call out to?

I don't see where she put the little boy in your basket as someone else said
I assume you mean a cart not a basket. Neither child would fit.

Dirty shoes are a given whenever a child is placed in a cart, btw.

Exactly what I thought as I read the OP.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I would have minded my own business. Sounds insensitive but I'd rather not get involved with a child/mother situ especially with telling her what to do.

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

@1Snickers I don't think I could've stood there 15 seconds if I were in that situation. I'd have opened the door to the restroom and yelled "Is this your child out here alone???"

She was in there 15 minutes and you didn't think to do that? 15 minutes is a long time. 5 minutes is a long time.

How did the ladies passing you know that the child wasn't with you? Did you tell them the child had been left alone? You should've asked someone to please get a manage/salesperson or security, if you didn't think to take 2 steps to the restroom door and address the mother inside.

SamBrown · ‎03-10-2010

@Lucky Charm wrote:
@1Snickers I don't think I could've stood there 15 seconds if I were in that situation. I'd have opened the door to the restroom and yelled "Is this your child out here alone???"

She was in there 15 minutes and you didn't think to do that? 15 minutes is a long time. 5 minutes is a long time.

How did the ladies passing you know that the child wasn't with you? Did you tell them the child had been left alone? You should've asked someone to please get a manage/salesperson or security, if you didn't think to take 2 steps to the restroom door and address the mother inside.

@Lucky Charm Exactly. I think there are quite a lot of exaggerations in this "story".

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@Desertdi wrote:
My mother used to leash me up like a dog.

I had to do this with one of my three children. ( middle child) He would pull away if I had him by the hand and would yell, "you're choking me" if I had his wrist.

He climbed out of the stroller and would run off. I have two boys who are a year apart. There was no way I could handle both of them plus an older child at the same time when one would run off.

People would chastise me for using a harness on him while walking and while he was in the stroller.

I was a very young mother...had my first one at 19. I never left my children alone in a store or anywhere else.

It is too dangerous. I laughed when I saw your harness, but you know your mother loved and protected you.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
I would have minded my own business. Sounds insensitive but I'd rather not get involved with a child/mother situ especially with telling her what to do.

I would have called the police after a few minutes. This lady is lucky it wasn't me who saw her abandoned child.

Lakelife62 · ‎05-09-2023

From the OP describing the mom as "not understanding", I'm wondering if the woman spoke English or even realized that you shouldn't leave your child alone in a grocery store? Maybe there is a cultural difference?