Have You Ever Been Left Home Alone or Anywhere Else?

hollydolly said:
Yep we were told to ask a stranger the time... Beggars belief now doesn't it ?

I remember my first beating from my father. I was told to be home for 5pm.. I was late..by the time I found someone to ask it was later than 5pm... he beat the beejezus out of me.. 4 years old !!
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Dolly, I can't even fathom. I'm so sorry. 🤗
 

jimintoronto said:
Without looking to see where you live...Your use of the phrase fortnight , immediately identified you as a Brit. JimB. In Totonto.
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@jimintoronto you should , someday, read my first eBook series, The Wanderlust Collection, I've used medieval spelling intentionally as it's an historical as well as paranormal romance, but people even though I'd explained these words beforehand, still told me I'd spelling errors 🤣🤣🤣 and most said twas too clean. Sorry no swears in my literature ahahah... They're supernaturals, where they come from, swear words are unknown tam tam!
 
Nemo2 said:
Might be worse......you could live in Toronto and watch the Leafs. :ROFLMAO:
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I love the Toronto Maple Leafs game Vs Montreal Canadians there the best to watch... Ehehehe... However, the past leagues, not the current ones. I've given up!
 
No, never. My mother stayed home. When she was giving birth, I think my father took time off work. If she was not around for other reasons, neighbor ladies or babysitters looked after us.

However, it was a long walk to and from school, and I was on my own. I was constantly warned about the dangers.
 
No, but when we brought our daughter to college she was going to stay in a house with other girls. We got there in the evening and all the girls left. Not one stayed to keep her company on her first night and the house was creepy. She went upstairs all alone as we left and I hated that.
She always says she was fine but it really bothered me.
 
MrPants said:
There are some legit reasons for being a Leaf fan!
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How can any woman wait that long? By the time that happens, she will have married a Colorado Avalanche fan, had 3 children, and got divorced. Then again, she might be available, for a 2nd marriage.

The above comment was made by a long suffering New York Islanders fan, whose team hasn't won the Stanley Cup since the 1980's. :(
 
I was three years old, my sister 8. We were in Central Park for "I Am An American Day" which is no longer celebrated. My sister got bored so we left the ceremony (parents were so loose in those days). We saw kids in a tree, and I wanted to climb it and she didn't so she said she'd wait. Climbed, came down, big sister not there. I started crying and a cop took me to a cop station where everyone was so nice to me, but I was afraid and couldn't stop crying. My mother magically appeared.

Around forty-five years later I bring up the incident to her. Just as I always thought she confirmed she deliberately left me, a 3 year old, and walked away.

This incident affected me my whole life and was the beginning of the end for me and my sister.

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Just looked up "I Am An American Day" and I was only two, not three. Two years old. Parents so loose in those days. In fact, I wasn't two, about to turn two.
 
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Not strictly speaking on my own because there were a few other people with me, Security and computer engineers, none of which are much use in the real World!

I was called out to work one New Years Day for a power cut at work, not normally a major problem, stand by generators would start automatically and stop when the power came back on. There were a few odd things that would require a re-set and back home was the normal procedure.

This time the power came back on but the generator did not stop, so I rang the people who serviced it for us and was advised to hit the emergency stop. To be honest I can't remember the full sequence of events, but it stopped and then started again, so I hit the emergency stop again. This time the generator stopped and the emergency button fell apart! We now had a strange situation where the computers were running but the air cons in the data rooms were not.

Now we had a back up procedure as I am a mechanical engineer not electrical, so I rang the stand by electrician. He had gone away for the weekend, so I rang the manager; he was at Old Trafford watching Manchester United!

Temperatures in the data rooms were reaching critical and some of the servers were falling over by this time and the computer men were jumping up and down like Yosemite Sam!

I eventually managed to get hold of a contractor friend of mine and he found out the problem was caused by a voltage optimiser that had recently been installed incorrectly. I don't know the full story but it was something to do with the control circuit relay being set to different value to the normal power. All it needed was a potentiometer being turned down a notch.

As I mentioned at the start, strictly speaking, I was not alone but it certainly felt like it!

I found out later that we had caused all sorts of havoc at Heathrow Airport.
 
Alligatorob said:
Had a friend who used to say his parents would send him out to play in the yard and then move. At first I thought it a joke, but after meeting some of his family I'm not so sure...
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That happened to my dad during the Depression. People changed apartments a lot back then, before or during eviction. He came home from school and his mom moved. He found them. They didn't go far.
 
When I was 9, my parents died. For a short while, I went to live with my uncle (dad’s brother). After the family argued about “who is going to take the kid (me),” I ended up with my dad’s parents, my grandparents. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I wasn’t left home alone until I was almost 13. I would sometimes come home from school when I was younger to an empty house, but usually it was for less than an hour. Living on a farm, I had plenty to do and was never afraid. I also had my dog, which was very selfish when it came to who could get near me. Other than my grandparents, he didn’t allow strangers to approach me without growling at them. I think he really liked me because I would feed him under the table.
 
Alligatorob said:
When I was 17 I went off to college and my parents moved 700 miles, to Oregon. Never lived at home again, does that count?

Had a friend who used to say his parents would send him out to play in the yard and then move. At first I thought it a joke, but after meeting some of his family I'm not so sure...
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Pepper said:
That happened to my dad during the Depression. People changed apartments a lot back then, before or during eviction. He came home from school and his mom moved. He found them. They didn't go far.
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That happened to my Huzz; on the day he graduated from high school, his dad informed him that he'd better get a job and find a place to live since the family was moving out of town.
 

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