Just Unbelievable

I am sure most people will have heard about the abduction of little Madeleine in Portugal.  It must be every parents nightmare. 

Whilst I’m sure we all have our own thoughts on the situation the bottom line is, it’s a terrible and heartbreaking situation to have to endure and our hope is that they find her alive and well.

So why bring it up on the blog.  Because of something that happened this afternoon when we decided to visit our local Toys R Us to buy our eldest son a bike for his Birthday. 

As we pulled up into the car park we noticed someone had left a hand written note under the back windscreen wiper of a car already parked near us.

As we drove past the car to reverse into our spot I noticed the first part of the sentence read "Leaving a baby crying . .."  I didn’t get to read the rest.

My intention was to sneak over and read the rest, but as we were getting out of our car and sorting our own children out safely, a woman and a girl about 12 were racing back to the car that had the note under the windscreen wiper, with their trolley.

My husband heard the girl say "oh no" when she read the note, but not knowing what was written on it, I can’t comment why she said oh no.  They shoved their shopping in the car and drove off.

We hung back to watch the car leave the car park and to our horror realised that the note had, as we suspected, referred to the fact that while they had been in the store, they had left a young child in the car unattended!!!

It left us cold and quite frankly stunned.  With the main story in the news being as it is, and to be honest even without that story, when will people realise they should never leave young children alone in such a potentially dangerous situation especially out of sight.

Should we have taken a note of the number plate?  Should we have reported them?  It happened all too quickly for us to make that decision especially when we were ensuring our own family were safe in a busy car park and we only glimpsed the young child in the car when they drove out past the store. 

I can only hope that the fact that a note had already been written and left meant that somebody had taken details down and frightened them.

In this case, the child was lucky.

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