How long would it take you?

[drcorey]

I was training some new people, working Express Unload at TTC. A lady got off one of the trains, walked about halfway down the ramp, turned around and started screaming at one of our unloaders because she had lost her son and just noticed. She seemed rather angry with him... I still haven't figured out what he did wrong.

She came up looking for him. Quickly, it was discovered that he had not gotten on the Monorail when she (and everyone else in the family) did at Magic Kingdom.

The person on the platform said it was no problem, he would probably appear on the next monorail. If not, we'd call the other station.

He didn't show up on the next monorail. Or the next one.

Mom decided to go back to the Magic Kingdom to look for him. Dad and several siblings (I later found out, one of them the identical twin brother of the lost boy) stayed behind with us. It was at this point that I realized what was going on (I was training and still had this other person working the station while I talked with my learners about it). I took a pad and began to get a description of the boy.

A couple moments later, with a description in hand, I went to Central to call Control to report the Signal 70.

When I gave the Control Operator the name of the boy, they immediately began asking me if he matched a certain description. He did.

He was already at Baby Care.

Where he had been for over half an hour.

He had not been forgotten at the Monorail Platform, otherwise he would have stayed with Security outside the park.

He was at Baby Care, where a Security CM had taken him when an attractions CM had brought this boy to Security.

An attractions CM in Frontierland.

When I found all this out, I hung up with Control. There, in Central, before I left to have to deal with this deadbeat dad, I went into a shouting, swearing frenetic tirade.

I then walked out the door, to Concourse and back to Express Unload, where I proceeded to help the father call the mother to tell her where to find their beloved son.

The fact that I was dealing with them meant that they had forgotten their son in Frontierland. They had managed to make it out of the land, past the Hub, down Main Street and through theturnstiles. They had waited in line for the second or third Monorail since they got in line (conjecture based on the time of night and the number of people who were disembarking every time an Express train pulled in), boarded the Monorail, sat/stood on said Monorail for at least three minutes, exited the train and walked halfway down the ramp before realizing they were missing their son.

They were three miles away from where they lost their son before they realized he was missing.

That brings up the reason for the poll I am posting.

hate to be him for the rest of the vacation.
kids going to be left in a restaurant in a mall or something.
wow, these are great pancakes, err, hey where is mom and dad??

[February]

Um, I'm pretty sure that was fiction. :D:

No Wombat apparently it was just a slight exaggeration based upon these people who got 3 miles away from their kid in WDW before they noticed he was gone! Yeah I know movie is old this just happened but people this stupid I truly believe are capable of ripping holes in the fabric of the space time continuum then all sorts of bad ~#*! starts to happen.

BW, all I can say is dude. I am so sorry you had to deal with this.

My kid is 14 and I still don't let her go 3 yards away from me or some other adult in our party on her own in WDW.

I can't believe also the twin brother didn't say anything.

I just...people are just unbelievable.

bru

[Cranbiz]

Well, because my youngest is now 20, I voted check in with us. When they were younger, it was give them a LITTLE freedom, run ahead maybe but still with sight.

Some people should have their parenting licenses revoked.

[Big Wallaby]

My wife is a twin, and I am the one that survived the miscarriage... but that is a WHOLE different topic. Little Wallaby and her twin brother (no, not identical :D: ) were always aware of where the other was if they were together and if one was missing. They would have said something. All the twins I've ever met had some sort of a special bond that made it so you couldn't keep them separated for long.

I can see the exchange now:

Twin: Mom, Timmy's missing.

Mom: Shush. We need to find seats on the Monorail. We can't stand.

Twin: But Mom, Timmy's missing!

Mom: Quiet! There's no place to stand on the Monorail! I need to find some seats! We'll find you a bathroom in a bit!

Twin: But Mom! Tim--

Mom: SHUT UP! WE'LL GET YOU A TURKEY LEG ONCE WE'RE AT THE TICKET STATION!

:mad:

Mom, dad and three other kids. SOMEONE should have noticed he was gone.

[ktulu]

I do wonder if one parent though the other one was watching them. I made the mistake of asking the PFY (16 at the time) to keep an eye on the 3 (days away from 4) year old in a shop in the England Pavilion at Epcot. They were both looking at something in the same area. Kenny comes into the other shop where we were and then a minute later Abby runs in crying "I didn't know which way to go!" It scared me and pissed me off at the same time. I went back into full on paranoid parental mode for the rest of the trip!

[Cranbiz]

PFY ???

Perhaps a reference from BOFH?

For those non IT people, it's a collection of stories of things us IT folks would love to do to our users.

[DisneyMom]

BW, I don't think you said how old the kid was, I'm assuming under age 1;)

We try to ditch our boys (20 and 22) at Disneyland but they always seem to find us
I think they want us to feed them again.

[MyLittleAngels]

There's also the matter of getting home with the *correct* three kids.

lol .... who said I wanted to bring home my own children? :D:

[joanna71985]

Wow, poor kid! I can't believe it took them that long to realize they left him in the MK. I just hope the parents didn't start screaming at him for getting left behind (I can't count the number of times I've had a lost kid, and when we found the parents/family they started yelling at the kid).

[ktulu]

PFY ???

Perhaps a reference from BOFH?

For those non IT people, it's a collection of stories of things us IT folks would love to do to our users.

Yep! Actually this kid is PFY-2 or NPFY, PFY-1 or O-PFY, graduated from college.