Three-Yr-Old clinging to a Unicorn Float saved at Sea

That might have been me at 2. My mom left the pony section at the store and told me to come with her... I didn't, I really wanted her to look at a certain pony. The next time I looked up she was gone! I went to the customer service desk and nobody could understand me to page my mom. (She has an unusual name) I have no idea how long it was, but she came and got me. She had gotten home and realized she forgot a kid, so turned right around. In her defense, she had my newborn brother and my sister would have loved for me to be gone. New mom brain is rough.

I'll see you being forgotten at the store, and up the bid with in a foreign country.

I was 9 or 10. We were shopping over the CAN-US border, about an hour and a half's drive from home, and while my mother was grocery shopping, and my dad took care of my colicky infant brother, I got permission to go check out the toy store next door at the strip mall.

They forgot I was there. And drove all the way home. And left me behind. IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!

Strip mall closed, I found a payphone, managed to remember enough details about my grandparents address to make a collect call, and they drove down to pick me up, while I sat in the deserted parking lot. My parents didn't realise anything was wrong until my grandparents showed up on the doorstep with me a couple hours later. Luckily this was before you needed any kind of ID to take a kid over international borders, but also before voicemail.

Somehow I was the one in trouble for the whole thing!
 
I'll see you being forgotten at the store, and up the bid with in a foreign country.

I was 9 or 10. We were shopping over the CAN-US border, about an hour and a half's drive from home, and while my mother was grocery shopping, and my dad took care of my colicky infant brother, I got permission to go check out the toy store next door at the strip mall.

They forgot I was there. And drove all the way home. And left me behind. IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!

Strip mall closed, I found a payphone, managed to remember enough details about my grandparents address to make a collect call, and they drove down to pick me up, while I sat in the deserted parking lot. My parents didn't realise anything was wrong until my grandparents showed up on the doorstep with me a couple hours later. Luckily this was before you needed any kind of ID to take a kid over international borders, but also before voicemail.

Somehow I was the one in trouble for the whole thing!
Holy cow! That would be so scary.
 
I have that exact unicorn Island Mega float...2 summers ago, my 18 year old almost went down river with it.....this summer my now 20 year old daughter took it to a cottage along with a friend on a flamingo float...the "boys" had to go rescue them in the middle of the lake as they had drifted out...it wasn't a huge lake...they could of paddled back...but I would be leary of ever putting a young child out on one of those!!!

That being said...this is the child that used to hide inside the middle part of full clothing racks when we shopped....and pop out yelling BOO! Sometimes purposely having me traumatized thinking she was lost (never did loose her)...but boy did she enjoy playing hide and seek while we shopped.

...gotta say I like using it in the 15' pool instead :p
 
So glad the girl was safe! Ponies truly are magical and amazing.

I love all the stories about the care bear beach balls, haha! My favorite beach ball was a smiley face ball from Walmart that I got for my birthday and I was devastated when it popped, so I can relate to Skybreeze's story. :cry:

Is this the care bear ball?

My ball looked like this, but was in beach ball form instead of inflatable rubber ball form:
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(Note: This is not me, haha. It's a scene from a 2003 walmart commercial)
 
So glad the girl was safe! Ponies truly are magical and amazing.

I love all the stories about the care bear beach balls, haha! My favorite beach ball was a smiley face ball from Walmart that I got for my birthday and I was devastated when it popped, so I can relate to Skybreeze's story. :cry:

Is this the care bear ball?

My ball looked like this, but was in beach ball form instead of inflatable rubber ball form:View attachment 33239
(Note: This is not me, haha. It's a scene from a 2003 walmart commercial)
That just serious made me teary eyed. Not sure why I never looked at replacing my ball, but YES! That’s THE best beach ball ever made. ;)
 
I'll see you being forgotten at the store, and up the bid with in a foreign country.

I was 9 or 10. We were shopping over the CAN-US border, about an hour and a half's drive from home, and while my mother was grocery shopping, and my dad took care of my colicky infant brother, I got permission to go check out the toy store next door at the strip mall.

They forgot I was there. And drove all the way home. And left me behind. IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!

Strip mall closed, I found a payphone, managed to remember enough details about my grandparents address to make a collect call, and they drove down to pick me up, while I sat in the deserted parking lot. My parents didn't realise anything was wrong until my grandparents showed up on the doorstep with me a couple hours later. Luckily this was before you needed any kind of ID to take a kid over international borders, but also before voicemail.

Somehow I was the one in trouble for the whole thing!
Sounds like your parents punishing you to deflect their guilt.
 
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