Comments on: I came in here for the special offer, a guaranteed personality

By: blues

blues — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:19:53 +0000

Congrats on the future athlete.

And you know I love that song.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:38:58 +0000

Joe – I’m working on the one handed grab right now. Wait for it.

Gypsy – He was looking for some junk food.

JK – I know, I’m a lot more vigilant now.

Ariza – I’m pretty sure he didn’t think he was lost either. That’s the thing he was just pissed that I wasn’t playing the game.

Erin – Is it true they have a detention facility for lost kids at Disney?

Chris – Exactly. It’s a frickin’ roller coaster ride.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:47:11 +0000

Good times. They keep us on our toes no? And everytime I get too big for my britches and puffed up thinking I am the best mum ever? They do something that lands me flat on my butt back at Parenting 101. Sigh.
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By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:16:12 +0000

Although I’m not a parent I know I did my fair share of getting lost as a child- in Winn Dixie, Eckerd Drug, even in Disney World. So I am sure my poor mother could relate to your terror.

Thank goodness for the happy ending. Great story, and certainly not likely to be the last!
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By: arizaphale

arizaphale — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:35:27 +0000

Ah yes. The ‘where the f*** have they gone they were here 2 secs ago how can they have disappeared in that time I only looked away for a minute’ feeling. Know it well. Mind you we did a lot worse to our parents. At 12, a group of us went ahead of them on a bushwalk near Wilpena Pound and were ‘lost’ for 2 hours. Of course we didn’t think we were lost and so were cheerful and unaware of the nightmare our parents had been living in thick bush as evening approached. I think it was the closest my dad ever came to killing me.
Nice catch though Zac.
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By: Jessica K

Jessica K — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:07:46 +0000

Oh, that is SO scary! I have had mini episodes like that, but they didn’t get quite so far away!
Really embarrassing that your student witnessed it.
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By: Gypsy

Gypsy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:35:15 +0000

So glad you found him quickly! It tickles me that he was in the snack aisle.
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By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:49:37 +0000

Horrible post! How can we possibly focus on the awesome catch Z made and comment on that, when you follow it up with that?

I haven’t (obviously) had that happen yet, but it did happen with my nephew about 13 or so years ago. At a 7-11. Me and his mother were outside and he disappeared. She went absolutely APESHIT BONKERS!! Turns out, the little one was half in and half out of the chest freezer inside the 7-11 that contains all the icecream snacks.

But, seriously awesome that he caught the ball. I wonder if it’ll be more exciting when he does it one handed and pretends that it was no big deal.
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By: admin

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:11:37 +0000

Headbang – Surprisingly, no. I was moaning to Dr. O’C about the lack of respect my Australian students show (Anglo? White Australian? I don’t know what the right term is.) I like my international students better. They call me Dr.

All Big W’s are depressing.

Yello – I hope my music taste is genetic, but I think it’s environmental.

Jill – Hiding inside while you were looking outside? Nice.

Mooselet – Having the cop talk to him probably instilled a healthy amount of fear into the boy as well.

Mongola – I think ‘making eyes’ was the wrong phrasing. I should have said ‘eyeing up’.

Ginny – Mother-in-law is definitely worse than student.

Sarah – I don’t think my student was really looking out for him, just somewhat bemused that a random toddler was running unsupervised around his shop.

SIS – Wasn’t.

By: Southern (in)Sanity

Southern (in)Sanity — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:08:32 +0000

I’m sure that must be a very frightening experience. I can’t imagine going through something like that.

Hopefully the “lecture” won’t be too bad.