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surrealAmerican

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15. I also got left at kindergarten.

Reply to LaurenG (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 12, 2012, 06:38 PM

Jun 2012

My older sister usually walked me home, but she was out sick that day, so my mother had arranged for another child to walk with me instead. The kid forgot, and I was left crying on the steps of the school until some older girls (who knew my sister) recognized me, and walked me home.

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Who here ever got left somewhere as a kid? I was left in the St. Laurent Shopping Centre when I was [View all] applegrove Jun 2012 OP

I "lost" my younger son in a shopping center once. femmocrat Jun 2012 #1

I don't think I was ever left anywhere Art_from_Ark Jun 2012 #2

I was never left anywhere, as far as I know, The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2012 #3

Miz t. did. trof Jun 2012 #4

Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) Ashley96 Jun 2012 #5

I never did, but my parents left my sister in a gas station in Arizona MineralMan Jun 2012 #6

This IS a saner place. HappyMe Jun 2012 #8

nailed it! Kali Jun 2012 #14

It sure beats posting in Meta!!1!! Welcome to teh Lounge! madinmaryland Jun 2012 #18

Out in the middle of nowhere on a summer school outing. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #7

Not as a kid (that I remember, anyways) but as an adult. bluedigger Jun 2012 #9

Kindergarten LaurenG Jun 2012 #10

I also got left at kindergarten. surrealAmerican Jun 2012 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Jun 2012 #11

Extraterrestrial aliens left me here when I was a kid. I was hoping for somebody to come get me, raccoon Jun 2012 #12

OMG! Kali Jun 2012 #13

In a burlap bag in the Olentangy river. ohiosmith Jun 2012 #16

Left at school by the bus. First grade... Xipe Totec Jun 2012 #17

Me and 2 of my brothers sent the youngest brother home.......... mrmpa Jun 2012 #19

You lucky kid. Baitball Blogger Jun 2012 #20

The St. Laurent Shopping Centre in Ottawa? I grew up in east-end Ottawa. Lucy Goosey Jun 2012 #21

Hey! applegrove Jun 2012 #24

I was left at the soccer field dr.strangelove Jun 2012 #22

My parents used to do it intentionally. Chan790 Jun 2012 #23

I didn't get left behind laundry_queen Jun 2012 #25

The Astrodome, Houston. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #26

kick for more lost people. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #27

I was left behind in high school noamnety Jun 2012 #28