A Mum's Worst Nightmare on the Tube: Lost Child and Grateful Thanks

tramvn

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Y'know your worst nightmare as a mum on the tube where one of your kids jumps on the train and the doors close and they're in the train and you're not.....
Country kids in the city for only the 2nd time in their lives
🤯
lessons definitely learned!
Thankyou again to the lovely family (if by any remote chance you're on here!) that took my very shocked 7yo daughter under your wing until the next station and looked after her until I could get the next train to catch you up and huge thanks to station staff at Blackfriars and Temple stations for being so lovely and helpful.
If I drank I would be drinking tonight
😳
 
Same happened to me as a kid. Country kids and a Dad watching all 3 of us. Only difference is they got on the train but I couldn’t do, I remember waving to my Dad as the train pulled away. Like a good girl I sat on the seat on the platform until he came back looking very relieved! 😂
 
Oh yes! This happened to my 15 year old ‘niece’ last year and it was awful! Much worse for a 7 year old! So easily done though, glad she was ok x
 
We’re Londoners and my son worries about this all the time, it’s never happened but he’s always asking to make sure I don’t leave him behind. Thank goodness there was a nice family and not a load of football fans or something 😬
 
@theniceone I would class myself as one of a “load of football fans” as I travel to away games on the underground with hundreds of others every week and speaking on behalf of them all I can guarantee any kid left behind like that would have been looked after by a load of football fans. Most have their own families too.
 
@communionwithgod football fans get a bad reputation, probably a hang over from the 80’s - like we are all hooligans fighting, rioting, drinking and beating up policemen. It’s not like that at all.
 
@apple7 being a Millwall fan, with not the best reputation in the world in that regard, maybe I'm not best placed to comment 😂 but when it comes to kids, every football supporter I know would go out of their way to help in any situation.
 
I’ve had quite bad experiences with West Ham football fans during the week and groups of young drunk football fans on weekends.
It is stereotypical but it also can ring very true for some of us who travel on the tube.
 
@warriordenny24 sadly there are always a minority. On a family day out we had issues with a load of drunk aggressive fancy dress clad rugby fans a couple of weeks ago on the tube. Doesn’t give all rugby fans a bad name in my eyes though and I wouldn’t say rugby fans wouldn’t look after a lost or misplaced kid either.
 
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