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Yesterday, a customer comes into our store with a little dog in his hand. My coworker goes, "You can't have your dog in here," and the poor guy is like, "It's not my dog, I almost hit it in the parking lot. i thought it was just a bag in the road and then I saw the little pink sweater!"
We held onto the dog for maybe 1/2 hour. We paged three times, "Would the owner of a white chihuahua with black spots and a pink sweater come to the front to get your dog?" and no one came, so someone called the cops to take the poor little thing to the pound. Poor dog was shaking the whole time we had him. I had scratches on my arm from all of his wiggling. It was really funny to see the big, burly cop holding a bitty dog in one hand and a tiny pink sweater in the other. I guess the owner showed up a few minutes later, thankfully.
Later in the day, a coworker came across a little boy crying. Little guy was separated from his family. He didn't know his mom's name, just called her "mama," so someone just kept paging for the parents of a little boy and gave a description so they could find him. They paged twice and no one came. The boy was bawling and wouldn't talk, he was so upset. They then decided to page in Spanish, hoping maybe that would help. Still no one came. Someone working there recognized the boy and described the mother. Someone else had seen the mother leave already with several other kids. She had left her son there!
The cops arrived just in time for the mother to come back in to the store, LAUGHING! "Oops, I left my kid here! ha ha ha" like it was so funny that this poor little boy (maybe 4 or 5 years old) was left behind and crying and feeling abandoned. Management told her she would have to talk to the police first because they had been called for child abandonment and it was their decision on what would happen next.
Seriously, I am one of five kids, and my parents never left us behind. Sure, we got separated in the store on occasion, but they noticed that we were gone and found us. They always called each one of us by name in the car to double check that we were all there. I just don't understand how someone can not realize that their child is not there with them, and just go home without them.
We held onto the dog for maybe 1/2 hour. We paged three times, "Would the owner of a white chihuahua with black spots and a pink sweater come to the front to get your dog?" and no one came, so someone called the cops to take the poor little thing to the pound. Poor dog was shaking the whole time we had him. I had scratches on my arm from all of his wiggling. It was really funny to see the big, burly cop holding a bitty dog in one hand and a tiny pink sweater in the other. I guess the owner showed up a few minutes later, thankfully.
Later in the day, a coworker came across a little boy crying. Little guy was separated from his family. He didn't know his mom's name, just called her "mama," so someone just kept paging for the parents of a little boy and gave a description so they could find him. They paged twice and no one came. The boy was bawling and wouldn't talk, he was so upset. They then decided to page in Spanish, hoping maybe that would help. Still no one came. Someone working there recognized the boy and described the mother. Someone else had seen the mother leave already with several other kids. She had left her son there!
The cops arrived just in time for the mother to come back in to the store, LAUGHING! "Oops, I left my kid here! ha ha ha" like it was so funny that this poor little boy (maybe 4 or 5 years old) was left behind and crying and feeling abandoned. Management told her she would have to talk to the police first because they had been called for child abandonment and it was their decision on what would happen next.
Seriously, I am one of five kids, and my parents never left us behind. Sure, we got separated in the store on occasion, but they noticed that we were gone and found us. They always called each one of us by name in the car to double check that we were all there. I just don't understand how someone can not realize that their child is not there with them, and just go home without them.
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