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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!