Did you ever run away from home as a kid?

jujube said:
I was about 7. I packed my tiny suitcase with my favorite green sweater and a string of beads and took off for my grandmother's house. When I reached the end of our street I stopped, because I wasn't allowed to cross the road.

So I headed back home and hid in the wellhouse. That'll show them! They'll look all over for me and they won't be able to find me. The wellhouse is dark and damp and full of creepy-crawlies. I peek out and see through the kitchen window that they're all sitting down for dinner......WITHOUT ME! Hmmmm, must think about this.

Finally, I head inside. Nobody indicates that they've noticed that I've been gone....for hours and hours and hours and hours (it was probably closer to 30 minutes). I'm crushed but I'm also hungry, so I get over it.

I never realized that my mother knew where I was all along.
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I LOVED that story! Thanks!
 

I ran away at 4 years old. How I reached the door lock, I don't know. I probably went about 50 yards and heard some teenage boys who were smoking on a neighbor's steps. I turned around and went home. My parents didn't even know what I had done and when I told them they were shocked.
 
I ran away when I was 17 with my boyfriend who hitchhiked to NY from FL. I was pregnant and my parents did not know yet. I was scared to tell them. My parents had moved back from FL to NY just months before. Then my boyfriend turned up. He got a job and an apartment with a roommate. He borrowed his roommate's car and picked me up and we left NY and went to St. Simon's Island in GA because his father and stepmother lived there. My parents had the state police looking for us and the owner of the car filed a stolen car with them too.
 

katlupe said:
I ran away when I was 17 with my boyfriend who hitchhiked to NY from FL. I was pregnant and my parents did not know yet. I was scared to tell them. My parents had moved back from FL to NY just months before. Then my boyfriend turned up. He got a job and an apartment with a roommate. He borrowed his roommate's car and picked me up and we left NY and went to St. Simon's Island in GA because his father and stepmother lived there. My parents had the state police looking for us and the owner of the car filed a stolen car with them too.
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what happened ?.. don't leave us hanging Kat..lol... did you go back home in the end ?
 
My daughter did when she was about 12 because I didn't "know her life",(poor kid). She packed a bag and everything, got about 300 feet up our drive and decided the bag was too heavy and it was raining too hard so came back. I can still picture her dragging that bag while holding her hand above her eyes trying to block the rain. It was kind of funny but also made me sad.
 
Yes, when I was 5. I got 2 houses away before my father caught up with me. They didn't seem to care when I was packing my little doll-suitcase and even said goodbye.

They never thought I'd do it. I was going to ask the neighbor if I could live with them.

Dad brought me back and nothing more was said. I don't remember what it was, only that they had really pissed me off.
 
RadishRose said:
May I ask why?
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No real reason
Good parents

Seems once grampa died, I was pretty much let go
Gramma had to go to work
Both folks worked
Big sis was in college in another state
My fat little brother was baby sat somewhere (they knew to not trust my babysitting skills)

I was hardly ever more than 50 mi from home
Not really 'gone' gone
Not really 'running away'
Just out
Sometimes I just hung around the place when they were gone and I was outa money

Not sure how I got thru high school
But, a few months after getting my diploma, heard some of the teacher's aids (girls in my grade) filled in the grade books for me
They got me some Bs, but not obvious Bs
I also think the school cadre didn't want to see me another year
 
Gary O' said:
No real reason
Good parents

Seems once grampa died, I was pretty much let go
Gramma had to go to work
Both folks worked
Big sis was in college in another state
My fat little brother was baby sat somewhere (they knew to not trust my babysitting skills)

I was hardly ever more than 50 mi from home
Sometimes I just hung around the place when they were gone and I was outa money

Not sure how I got thru high school
But, a few months after getting my diploma, heard some of the teacher's aids (girls in my grade) filled in the grade books for me
They got me some Bs, but not obvious Bs
I also think the school cadre didn't want to see me another year
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You were lonely, poor kid. đź’•
 
My mom had "problems", so I ran away often. The first I can remember was when I was 4 or 5. My grandparents lived a few houses away. Apparently, I went to them and was NOT going back home. I can't stress that enough! I slept on their couch. The only way they could get me to go home was to promise that I'd get a cat. I did get Skippy, but she 'ran' away.
 
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