Waving to the wrong mummy..
By Wizzywig
@Wizzywig (7847)
March 25, 2010 12:11pm CST
Some of my best memories from childhood were the day trips we made to Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, England) We would pick and sell blackberries to a local shop to earn the money to pay for the trips and they were so precious to us. There was a ride on the pier which was a sort of roundabout with little boats going round in a big pool. As it went round, I would wave each time I passed my mum. One day I accidentally waved to a woman in a similar dress. Being a very shy child I was so upset at waving to the wrong mummy that I cried for the rest of the ride. What made it worse was that she had waved back to me! When the woman then came over to us and asked if I was alright, I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me. Even tho I am considerably thicker-skinned now, I still cringe at the thought, 50 years on.
Do you have a similar harmless yet, at the time, "devastating" experience?
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
26 Mar 10
Actually two. When I was four, my aunt and cousin were visiting.I do not know why, but we were all together, but we had different foods, or whatever. Someone brought my little cousin a glass of orange juice, and I drank it. When it came out I crawled under the table and hid, because I was "bad". I also, in kindergarten, rode the bus to our school. It had long wings or breezeways of rooms with outside doors, that all looked alike to me. I remember the first or second day getting into the wrong classroom. I still tend to go the wrong place very easily.
Were they cross with you or did you just feel'bad'? I think anyone could've gone to the wrong classroom especially when they're only in kindergarten. I've queued for 15 minutes in the wrong bank before...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
25 Mar 10
I cannot think of a single situation like that right now, but I just couldn't leave your discussion sitting here lonely and unloved. :-)
