Had to do this with my grandma when I go shopping with her... got to the point Grandpa didn't really trust her with me at the store, fearing that she would lose me permanently...my grandma tried to lie that I was the one that left but... well, I hope you can see the large argument that ensued between them that day because of that attempted lie... Ahh, good times.☺
My dad used to do this too and I never understood how he always seemed to know someone wherever we went. Now that I am an adult and have had the opportunity to work within my community, I find that I always run into at least one person I know.
2000 kids just because you can relate doesn't mean you have to say you can also do you see 90s kids having to say the same thing like "I did that in the 90s too so funny girl!"
That happened to me too many times Like there was thus one time she was talking to some random woman about God knows what and I was just standing there facing the cashier like👁 👁 👄
I remember I lost my mom at the store. I called around for her, and still couldn’t find her. I popped my head into one aisle and once again called for her. Instead, this British man in his 40s called out, “Not your mummy!!” Traumatized.
I'll never forget grabbing onto the back pocket of my dads jeans only to have him to turn around and be a total stranger. I was like 6 and still remember the shock and embarassment.
Omg I was in the grocery store & went to grab my moms hand, then we walked for a bit & when I looked up it was some creepy man looking down at me 😂 my mom was down the isle laughing & I was SO embarrassed
I vividly remember in preschool seeing my dad and running up to hug him only to look up while hugging him and realize it was in fact a different kids dad💀
lol I was in some junk shop some months ago and some random dude starts talking to me. I figure that maybe he’s just talking in a phone earpiece or something. After he states several things and I don’t respond, he looks over at me and says “oh damn, I thought you were my wife, my bad.” 😂
I had this happen to me recently and it cracked me up - some 3 year old boy ran up and grabbed my butt and then fell over from shock when I turned around 😂
To add an extra layer of terror to this, in the 80s we were constantly exposed to news stories and even TV shows about parents abandoning their children in grocery stores. You turn around and mom's gone and you immediately think you're an orphan.
@eraserhead it was even the premise of one of the more popular sit-coms at the time. Punky Brewster was a show about a little girl who was adopted by a man named Henry after the girls parents abandoned her in a grocery store.
Ah yes... The feeling of walking around the whole store woried the entire time while looking at the front, left, right, back on every corner to find your parents
My partner wanders off like a child in stores, & will either leave his phone in the car, or have the ringer off. So I STILL get to wander around looking for him, like it’s 1992 all over again😭
I had double cataracts as a kid. I was in the store with my mom, following her and kinda zoning out. Got to the register with her. Walked out with her. Started to get into the car with her when two things happened simultaneously. I realized that our car wasn't blue, and my "mom" began shrieking. She was NOT my mom, just the same height and build, and the same color hair. She brought me back inside where she found HER kid crying at the front desk asking for her mom, and MY mom at the front desk asking for her kid. Anyway, I think I was one of the first leash kids.
I lost my mom like 3x during my entire childhood lol. One time I just ran to a random employee and cried and hugged him like my life depended on it, but I couldn't say anything because I was crying so hard 😂 thankfully he figured out I was lost and helped me find my mom lol.
I remember looking at some dolls in a department store, and when I finally turned around, my mom had wandered off. I then walked around the aisles while blubbering like an idiot. The good old days!
When you're a pre-teen/teen, yes. But when you're 6, 7, 8, 9 - no. When you're that small, everything seems so big and unfamiliar, ESPECIALLY when you look up and don't see your mom lol. The world just becomes that much bigger. You might try looking a little, but end up panicking within a few seconds and giving up lol. Next thing you know you're at the customer service desk and the manager is paging your mom to come to the front of the store lol.
@@anyaw340 special circumstances. When I was 7 or 8 I'd hunt down a sales associate to page her over the intercom for me lmao I was too afraid to be left alone and knew exactly how to resolve that 🤣🤣🤣 Edit: her being my mom lol
Right? Like this video makes no sense to me. I'd usually go read the magazines while my mom shopped then just went through the isles to find her. And I was maybe 10?
My mom would go up to the front and have them announce "Annikka Johnson, please come up to the front. I repeat, please come up to the front" The worst part is is that I knew almost everyone in that town so they all knew it was me 😭😭😭 Talk about traumatizing
I remember when I was about 5 years old, my Grandpa took me to our local neighborhood grocery store to get some donuts (because it was Sunday and they always had special deals on pastries, small neighborhood catholic stuff I guess). We walked in, and somehow I got separated from him. Being my five year old self, I started crying, and then hid underneath the cheese table until a girl who worked there found me. It was probably the most terrifying thing in my life at that point, and my grandpa found it hilarious. Best part is, I still got the donut
I remember getting lost in a walmart(this was before supercenters),they had a phone on each post in the store. I was wondering the craft isle with the pretty flowers. They paged “If your the parent of a little one in a red shirt and overalls,come get your little one in Crafts!” Back then we didn’t know many child pedos taking kids. We just seen a kid wondering around and would page for a parent,then you’d see the parent running to the kid or interacting with the parent and your good. But I think if they happened to meet a kid who didn’t and was like not saying anything to their “parents” I think it would have made them question if they were the parent or not. But I remember the dredd of being lost,I was crying cuz I didn’t know where she went. I think mom was looking for a birthday item in toys and she loves crafts too but me not knowing my way around the store went from toys to the bikes to the auto and craft section, so I knew the craft section since mom and I were here but I don’t think I paid attention to the isles we walked by me holding her hand. I still remember how short I was holding my mothers hand.
My mom literally forgot me at Walmart. I cried for 20 minutes straight waiting for her to come back . I still bring it up to guilt trip her to this day
Dang reminds me of a time my older brother had a dream abt being abandoned at the airport and ending up in India somehow then he was in a taxi and the taxi driver started listening to music and he started giving with the taxi driver and just to make it worse we are Pakistani that's like the OPPOSITE of India cause our governments kinda hate eachother and we aren't even allowed in India so it makes no sense
I remember loosing my dad in a store because he walked off and I told a staff and they did the big announcement thing and I felt really bad for my dad and really embarrassed and I cried. My dad bought me a chocolate bar for doing the right thing tho
Same bc my dad walked of in a shop, I was with my mom I wanted to go with my dad another man looked like he could be my dad's TWIN and I followed that man the man turned around I saw that it wasn't my dad and ran to a mirror (used to be my fav place in shops 🤣) I just sat down and then my mom noticed I was missing luckily I was in a Dorothy from wizard of oz dress and it had a poofy skirt so my sister saw it from behind the mirror and came over 🤣🤣🤣 I was about 3-4 at the time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think I was 6 the first time I ditched my mother in a store. There was none of that freaking out nonsense. I went and picked out her Christmas present, paid for it, and then asked the saleslady at the perfume counter to page my mother because SHE got lost. I knew where I was. This was the 70's, of course.
In the 70s we had a special melodic family whistle. If I got lost, my parents would do the whistle and I would hear it and locate them, or vice versa. :)
@clau_5923 Nah. They just text random dudes online now to come pick them up for a one night stand and they get knocked up. In the 90s, people got to choose their partner in person because the internet was too slow.
And your mom told you about stranger danger so you're running through scenarios where you gotta fight kidnappers while you run to an employee as fast as you can. Have them call for your mom on the speaker and she comes yelling at you for embarrassing her.
as a 00’s kid, i relate to the 90’s kid. my mom would get the cashiers to call for me over the loudspeaker and i’d run there in tears. the best tho was when i got to call her up to the front. 6 year old me was so happy for payback
You haven't lived til you contemplate living on your own in the wild, and then hear an announcement on the store's PA system telling you that your parents are at customer service waiting for you. 😂😂😂
Definitely one of the most terrifying things as a kid, even worse was then having to have the store page your mom over the loud speakers and the employee purposely making it sound like I'm a big crybaby knowing everybody in the store can also hear it. including Nicole the girl from school that I was absolutely in love with. That happened at either Caldor or Bradlees. Either way because of that ahole employee I'm super glad they went out of business in 1999 and 2001
I remember being a kid hearing the lost kid announcements and feeling that solidarity for them. It never happened to me but I did think "Wow, nearly kidnapped!"
there was a specific time when I was in a store with my mom. I told her I needed to use the bathroom and to stay in the aisle. She said fine and I left. I come back and she's gone 😐 They did an announcement over the speakers, I was so embarrassed. And pissed off lmao. she had one job
@@pinkbubblesnake I'm sorry you can't figure out life without a phone. Probably couldn't tell a stranger what your Mom's phone number is if you lost your phone either.
@@lorireed8046 Most people I know, myself included, have their parents numbers memorized - and in today's society, it is also true that you cannot really function without a phone (if only so employers have a convenient way to contact you.) Turning your phone off and intentionally ignoring someone does not teach them anything, it is simply you turning your phone off.
@@lorireed8046 Also in high school me and some friends did a school project called 'phone fasting' (we turned our phones completely off and didn't use them at all for a month.) We couldn't do this now because we need our phones at our jobs, but it isn't that hard and none of us complained much after the first day. Just because people use their phones often doesn't mean they need them. Back then, I didn't need my phone at all, but I had it so why wouldn't I use it?
I’d have a tendency to walk off in department stores when I was a kid. That feeling of fear when you look around and realize your parents are not there! It’s like you think they just went home without you. 😂 Then I’d see them standing an aisle over watching me and laughing. I still get ticked off at them when I think about it. They’re like, “We had to teach you not to wander off.” Right, Mom. Im sure that was the reason and it wasn’t that you and Dad were just a tiny bit twisted. (This is why Gen X turned out like we did!) 😂
Omg this but when you went to the park and didn’t want to go home so your parents would say “okay I’m leaving without you then, have fun being homeless” and would literally walk off, turn the car on, and start driving away. The trauma that caused me back then, it was always funny to them but a traumatic experience as a kid
I remember getting lost at Disney World in the 80's... that is the real panicking situation there. I was five. I was found by my own uncle who just happened to visit the same day and neither of him or my Dad realized it. From what I remembered I wanted ice cream and I paused at a window of a shop selling them, my parents thought I was still in the little crowd with my 4 other siblings. Yeah, you can imagine the panic when they realized I wasn't there. I did get an ice cream cone in the end though... I'm pretty sure the situation was where my parents got their first white hairs.
Guess I lived in the 90's until I was 17. The amount of times that I'd lose that woman because she simply didn't pay attention to where her kids were growing up. We would walk ahead so she could watch us, she'd stop to look at something and not tell anyone and oops there's a lost 12 year old. The funniest part is when I'd go to customer service to ask them to call for her on the intercom, she'd get mad at me for "running off" as if I could telepathically just know she stopped to look at something.
I got lost with out a phone I WAS ABOUT TO CRY UNTILL.... My mom said my name from the aisle next to me and she said she would be in the aisle I was in before I got lost.
I helped a kid once at Target who was just certain that her mom had left because she had walked up and down the whole store (and we were one of the largest ones) three or four times. I assured her that her mom would never do that, and that it's really easy to miss people in such a giant store as I walked her up to the front. I paged her mom to guest services and waited with the girl until her mom showed up. She was crying and I was trying not to cry cuz my mom really did ditch me in dangerous places more than once because of drugs and undiagnosed mental health issues. I was standing there pretending to be fine while all kinds of childhood trauma flared up, damned cptsd, lol. Anyway, her mom showed up about 5 minutes later like "WHERE WERE YOU!?"
I was at sea world last year with my husband, and being a flight attendant, I am always observing my surroundings. Well, I was passing by the kiddie section, and I noticed a little girl waltzing her way in the opposite direction from us. A little while later, I see a woman panicking and yelling out her daughter’s name. I walked up to her, and I said, “ma’am, are you calling out for a little girl that looked like this?” And I proceeded to describe the girl as best as I could. She said “YES!” I told her where I saw her, and I offered to help her locate the child. I found the little girl first, and I called out the mom. She came running and hugged her daughter. I told her the little girl to not stray from her mom again and left. I could understand the poor woman. Things like human trafficking are real threats, and I see too many lax parents out there without a care.
At my last cashier job I still had to page people up to the front to meet their missing party members occasionally. Didn't happen as often as I remember it happening as a kid, but regularly enough that it wasn't a rare thing.
My kids are 90's kids. They never got or felt lost at the store because I got them comfortable with being there, knew the routine and were always given small tasks to accomplish. It reached the point they'd do much of the shopping themselves. They were six and eight at the time.
Thank you for being a parent of 90's kids who didn't drop the ball, lose their kids and start this whole stupid short. I'm an 80's kid and my parents watched me like responsible adults.
i was born in 2008 but i SO relate with the 90s… back in the 2010s kids didn’t have a phone and i vividly remember being outside of my home town, lost in a shop, crying because i had lost my uncle 💀 kids these days will never experience this 😭
Born in 2010, same thing happens way too much. Also what do you mean by “kids these days”, we are the kids these days bro and even if you’re talking about like YOUNG young kids I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have a phone.
I used to hide in the middle of the round clothes racks and my poor mom had to look all over for me. I was such a little shit. Now I’m the one that has to look for her because she never answers her phone. …and I totally deserve it. 😂
When I was a kid whit no phone I would run across the store in panic trying to find them cause in europe we don't have the thing to announce but now i just call them asking where are they
I remember whenever my brothers and I would separate from our mom we would speak loudly about how “it’s a good thing we know karate!” We didn’t know karate but we thought that would scare kidnappers away 😂
I had this habit of just disappearing and roaming through the store on my own, so my dad would just whistle if he was looking for me. Never got lost throughout my entire childhood lmao
I knew about stranger danger but would trust only people in uniforms: police, attendants, clerks, doctors, etc. I think parents really need to teach that to their kids. Yes, don’t talk to just anyone, but if you’re lost, seek out legitimate sources of help aka someone with a uniform.
I'm from 2003, and I relate to this in my earlier childhood, too! My mother doesn't care; she would walk away with no fear and expect me to able to find her easily XD
Good times. Luckily my mom always shopped the same route every time for that reason. So if any of us kids got lost we just knew to go to one of her usual spots and wait or look down every aisle till we found her haha.
Nawrrrhhhhh bro I would lose my mom on purpose closing my eyes and find her in like 15 second and she would be far away, the longest it took me was around 20 second
When I lost my mom in the grocery store I would just remember the order of aisle she would go to, then remember what she needed then go to that aisle. Then drag my brother from trying to admire the donuts in the bakery. She would never know we left
When I was younger I played Marco Polo to find them. It was only a hassle when other people started joining in and they’d be confronted by a gremlin looking for her parentals.
This is still my mom. If you look away for a second she's gone. I have a certain whistle that i do that's loud, loud like one of those dad whistles that you can hear blocks away, and you'll see her head pop- up, from wherever she is, like a meerkat. It cracks me up everytime.
I remember getting lost at Walmart and crying uncontrollably. Then going to the front and having a lady announce over the intercom for my mom to come up to the front of the store. It's the worst feeling ever to lose your mom in the toy aisle. Everytime we went to the store after that, I made sure I was glued to my mom.
Oh my god i remember when i was like 7 i lost my mom in a Marshall's- i legit had to go up front and they called my mom to the check out, it was hilarious and scary at the same time. Old times, eh?
I remember losing my mom in the 80s. We’d just walked up and down the front or back of the store and looked down each aisle, This was not a big deal. We had to find them in camp grounds, theme parks and sporting events too. We learned how to deal with it. 🤷♀️
One time I lost my grandma at Walmart and started screaming in Spanish and ppl were laughing at me turns out she was in the aisle next to me but I stopped speaking Spanish bc of that 😊
I remember one time me, my mom, and my brother were at a mall so when we were gonna go upstairs I told her that I would take the excavator (I think that’s how you spell it) instead of the elevator but I wasn’t listening to what she was saying so I went upstairs I didn’t see her and my brother come out of the elevator or waiting at the elevator so for 20-30 minutes or so I was looking for her but then finally I found her and my brother it turned out her and my brother were downstairs the whole time while I was looking for them upstairs she had to tell the manger to help her find me but she and the manager couldn’t find me … I found her👁️👄👁️ (thank you for reading this) Edit: she didn’t tell the manager to help look for me she wasn’t even looking for me cause she knew I was upstairs also I was to lazy to erase it so I just made this edit
Nobody gonna talk about how parents actually give kids their own phones without realizing the terrible stuff on social media which they *do* watch? Alright, then.
Nope even though we both have a phone, I never think to use it. I'm Still lost, I have called my friends and told them I was lost in a store but never thought to call my grandmother or text her and tell her I am lost
Having to go and have them announce that you are lost to the whole store was the best part…
😂😂😂since I was a shy kid that was terrifying!!!
More like the worst..
Yess it happenwd a couple times😅
YES!!! Great times, great memories!
Happened a few times to me
You missed the part where you walk through the store looking down every single aisle hoping she’s not switching aisles at the same time as you.
... I know that so well... with my boyfriend. Drives me nuts!
Oh my goodness! So true. Story of my childhood
Had to do this with my grandma when I go shopping with her... got to the point Grandpa didn't really trust her with me at the store, fearing that she would lose me permanently...my grandma tried to lie that I was the one that left but... well, I hope you can see the large argument that ensued between them that day because of that attempted lie... Ahh, good times.☺
Still be doing that sometimes
Mom's all of a sudden gain speed once they enter the stores
My mom would legit finish shopping the entire time I was gone and THEN go to customer support and have them call my name
Hahaha. I hated that
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She def "lost" you on purpose lol
I think she does not want to spend time with you
@@Tord_Thirdywhy would you say that? nasty
This a 2000 thing too, I remember walking all over the store to find my mom then finding her standing and talking to some random woman for a hour
Omg yes! Always 😂
My dad used to do this too and I never understood how he always seemed to know someone wherever we went. Now that I am an adult and have had the opportunity to work within my community, I find that I always run into at least one person I know.
Not sure about it being 2000. It still happens even to me
2000 kids just because you can relate doesn't mean you have to say you can also do you see 90s kids having to say the same thing like "I did that in the 90s too so funny girl!"
Happens to me 🥲😔☹ Not fun lol 😂
The anxiety when mom asks you to wait in the checkout queue because she forgot a thing.
NOOO I EXPERIENCE THAT- one time that happened and me and the cashier were looking at eachother with this face: 👁️👄👁️
That happened to me too many times
Like there was thus one time she was talking to some random woman about God knows what and I was just standing there facing the cashier like👁 👁
👄
So many memories of a very stressful wait
Oh god lol, I've been on both sides of that. Waiting for customers to come back to pay for their stuff looool. Always so uncomfy.
Still happens as adult at store with husband and he has the money…
I remember I lost my mom at the store. I called around for her, and still couldn’t find her. I popped my head into one aisle and once again called for her. Instead, this British man in his 40s called out, “Not your mummy!!”
Traumatized.
help lol sorry but that’s random for a guy to say that 😂😅
HAHA
Lol
✨I'm not your mummy ✨
This is similar to what I do to children every day
I'll never forget grabbing onto the back pocket of my dads jeans only to have him to turn around and be a total stranger. I was like 6 and still remember the shock and embarassment.
Omg I was in the grocery store & went to grab my moms hand, then we walked for a bit & when I looked up it was some creepy man looking down at me 😂 my mom was down the isle laughing & I was SO embarrassed
I vividly remember in preschool seeing my dad and running up to hug him only to look up while hugging him and realize it was in fact a different kids dad💀
It’s one of those things you just never forget.
lol I was in some junk shop some months ago and some random dude starts talking to me. I figure that maybe he’s just talking in a phone earpiece or something. After he states several things and I don’t respond, he looks over at me and says “oh damn, I thought you were my wife, my bad.” 😂
I had this happen to me recently and it cracked me up - some 3 year old boy ran up and grabbed my butt and then fell over from shock when I turned around 😂
I started just yelling my moms name, because whenever I yelled "mom?!" I found every adult except my mom...
when I yelled "MOOOOOOM" my mom immediately knew it was me because I was so dramatic
@@WolfieOrDemonic 😂
"CYNTHIA JANE _______ I NEED YOU!!
That’s why I learned to shout it in Finnish because if I shouted mom!!! Every woman in 100 sq feet would turn around
Lolololo my mother,long since a grandmother also said that whenever she heard Mom...she automatically instinctively turned to look
I remember I searched for a whole ten minutes before having the brilliant idea to go to the front desk and finally reunite with my mum😅
When you relate more to the 90s kids even when ur a Gen Z 🥲
There were a lot of crossover experiences for sure!!
sameee
same!
EXACTLY
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To add an extra layer of terror to this, in the 80s we were constantly exposed to news stories and even TV shows about parents abandoning their children in grocery stores. You turn around and mom's gone and you immediately think you're an orphan.
Parents learned from the news stories how to get rid of their children… awareness my butt
Wow didn't know in the 80s it was like that.
@eraserhead it was even the premise of one of the more popular sit-coms at the time. Punky Brewster was a show about a little girl who was adopted by a man named Henry after the girls parents abandoned her in a grocery store.
I was afraid of being kidnapped.
What tha 😢
Ah yes... The feeling of walking around the whole store woried the entire time while looking at the front, left, right, back on every corner to find your parents
Bro im 13 and this makes my heart stop- i dont have a phone to call her with
I agree
My partner wanders off like a child in stores, & will either leave his phone in the car, or have the ringer off. So I STILL get to wander around looking for him, like it’s 1992 all over again😭
Is he a child tho? My ex used to do that while not answering the phone and i just paid for my stuff and waited in the car.
My husband does that ALL the time. I solved it by having him paged. He knows not to do it again! 👹
Tie a balloon on him. You can spot him like a Ross shopping cart and he will be popular with the kids. Efficient and funny 😁
@@cinnamon5124 I like this one.
I'm autistic so sometimes this happens to me
I had double cataracts as a kid. I was in the store with my mom, following her and kinda zoning out. Got to the register with her. Walked out with her. Started to get into the car with her when two things happened simultaneously. I realized that our car wasn't blue, and my "mom" began shrieking. She was NOT my mom, just the same height and build, and the same color hair. She brought me back inside where she found HER kid crying at the front desk asking for her mom, and MY mom at the front desk asking for her kid.
Anyway, I think I was one of the first leash kids.
OMG that's hilarious, though I'm sure it wasn't at the time. You had cataracts, what was "mom's" excuse, lol?
@@KudukUngol parental exhaustion was the moms excuse 😂
A leash may have been a good idea for me.
I mean, i understand how you could’ve confused the woman but how did she not realize you weren’t her child the whole time you were with her?😂
Lmao that’s happened to us before - some random kid got into our car and realized it was the wrong car 😂
I lost my mom like 3x during my entire childhood lol. One time I just ran to a random employee and cried and hugged him like my life depended on it, but I couldn't say anything because I was crying so hard 😂 thankfully he figured out I was lost and helped me find my mom lol.
I remember looking at some dolls in a department store, and when I finally turned around, my mom had wandered off. I then walked around the aisles while blubbering like an idiot. The good old days!
More like you wandered off 🙄✋
This is a joke don’t flame me.
When I was three years old I used to run away from my mom in stores and when I did so in ikea she PANICKED
Wait y'all didn't just track them down 😅
I had my dads entire shopping pattern memorized so I could always find him-
How cute ☺️
When you're a pre-teen/teen, yes. But when you're 6, 7, 8, 9 - no. When you're that small, everything seems so big and unfamiliar, ESPECIALLY when you look up and don't see your mom lol. The world just becomes that much bigger. You might try looking a little, but end up panicking within a few seconds and giving up lol. Next thing you know you're at the customer service desk and the manager is paging your mom to come to the front of the store lol.
@@anyaw340 special circumstances. When I was 7 or 8 I'd hunt down a sales associate to page her over the intercom for me lmao I was too afraid to be left alone and knew exactly how to resolve that 🤣🤣🤣
Edit: her being my mom lol
Bold of you to assume my mom had a shopping pattern. 😭
Right? Like this video makes no sense to me. I'd usually go read the magazines while my mom shopped then just went through the isles to find her. And I was maybe 10?
My mom would go up to the front and have them announce "Annikka Johnson, please come up to the front. I repeat, please come up to the front"
The worst part is is that I knew almost everyone in that town so they all knew it was me 😭😭😭
Talk about traumatizing
I remember when I was about 5 years old, my Grandpa took me to our local neighborhood grocery store to get some donuts (because it was Sunday and they always had special deals on pastries, small neighborhood catholic stuff I guess). We walked in, and somehow I got separated from him. Being my five year old self, I started crying, and then hid underneath the cheese table until a girl who worked there found me. It was probably the most terrifying thing in my life at that point, and my grandpa found it hilarious. Best part is, I still got the donut
YASSSS lol
I remember getting lost in a walmart(this was before supercenters),they had a phone on each post in the store. I was wondering the craft isle with the pretty flowers. They paged “If your the parent of a little one in a red shirt and overalls,come get your little one in Crafts!” Back then we didn’t know many child pedos taking kids. We just seen a kid wondering around and would page for a parent,then you’d see the parent running to the kid or interacting with the parent and your good. But I think if they happened to meet a kid who didn’t and was like not saying anything to their “parents” I think it would have made them question if they were the parent or not. But I remember the dredd of being lost,I was crying cuz I didn’t know where she went. I think mom was looking for a birthday item in toys and she loves crafts too but me not knowing my way around the store went from toys to the bikes to the auto and craft section, so I knew the craft section since mom and I were here but I don’t think I paid attention to the isles we walked by me holding her hand. I still remember how short I was holding my mothers hand.
My mom literally forgot me at Walmart. I cried for 20 minutes straight waiting for her to come back . I still bring it up to guilt trip her to this day
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Dang reminds me of a time my older brother had a dream abt being abandoned at the airport and ending up in India somehow then he was in a taxi and the taxi driver started listening to music and he started giving with the taxi driver and just to make it worse we are Pakistani that's like the OPPOSITE of India cause our governments kinda hate eachother and we aren't even allowed in India so it makes no sense
@@DontExpectAReplyFromMe hello,NEIGHBOR. Yep m an Indian
@@PinkieWorldfairy can I have my brother back?
@@DontExpectAReplyFromMe Idk about the Gov but yes u can
Not from the 90s. But I still screamed my heart out and panicked. When though phones were around, I wouldn’t be able to have one because of age.
I remember loosing my dad in a store because he walked off and I told a staff and they did the big announcement thing and I felt really bad for my dad and really embarrassed and I cried.
My dad bought me a chocolate bar for doing the right thing tho
Same bc my dad walked of in a shop, I was with my mom I wanted to go with my dad another man looked like he could be my dad's TWIN and I followed that man the man turned around I saw that it wasn't my dad and ran to a mirror (used to be my fav place in shops 🤣) I just sat down and then my mom noticed I was missing luckily I was in a Dorothy from wizard of oz dress and it had a poofy skirt so my sister saw it from behind the mirror and came over 🤣🤣🤣 I was about 3-4 at the time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think I was 6 the first time I ditched my mother in a store. There was none of that freaking out nonsense. I went and picked out her Christmas present, paid for it, and then asked the saleslady at the perfume counter to page my mother because SHE got lost. I knew where I was. This was the 70's, of course.
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Me just walking through every aisle until I find her : 😭
In the 70s we had a special melodic family whistle. If I got lost, my parents would do the whistle and I would hear it and locate them, or vice versa. :)
same here... my parents would sing a special lulaby and id hear her run up to her
I just walk around pretending I know what I’m doing while secretly looking for my mom
Back in the 90s they had to search their way back to their mom, and now all they have to do is text
Now is much better and practical 😁 the 90's looks like a nightmare 🤭.
@clau_5923 Nah. They just text random dudes online now to come pick them up for a one night stand and they get knocked up. In the 90s, people got to choose their partner in person because the internet was too slow.
And your mom told you about stranger danger so you're running through scenarios where you gotta fight kidnappers while you run to an employee as fast as you can. Have them call for your mom on the speaker and she comes yelling at you for embarrassing her.
Omg, Lol, forgot about that, but yep!
The worst is when they don't text/call back so you feel like you're back in the 90s going up and down the aisles looking 😂
Me losing my mom in a store be like: MOMMY😭😭😭 HELP MEEEEE😭😭😭😭😭
as a 00’s kid, i relate to the 90’s kid. my mom would get the cashiers to call for me over the loudspeaker and i’d run there in tears. the best tho was when i got to call her up to the front. 6 year old me was so happy for payback
I kinda relate too, but I never got my name called over the loudspeaker
until you call and text her twelve times and she doesn’t answer and almost sends you into a full blown panic attack 😭
“Sorry honey my phone was in the car”
@@Littlegreetings here phone was on silent and couldn’t feel it in her pocket 😭 how? couldn’t tell ya
@@ailahirschi491 mine always does that 😭
I still do the 90s thing bro
@@ailahirschi491 I do it on purpose. You kids are annoying.
The yell after “I’m lost!” Had me laughing hard for some reason
You haven't lived til you contemplate living on your own in the wild, and then hear an announcement on the store's PA system telling you that your parents are at customer service waiting for you. 😂😂😂
Definitely one of the most terrifying things as a kid, even worse was then having to have the store page your mom over the loud speakers and the employee purposely making it sound like I'm a big crybaby knowing everybody in the store can also hear it. including Nicole the girl from school that I was absolutely in love with.
That happened at either Caldor or Bradlees. Either way because of that ahole employee I'm super glad they went out of business in 1999 and 2001
Wow, you *are* a big crybaby.
I remember being a kid hearing the lost kid announcements and feeling that solidarity for them. It never happened to me but I did think "Wow, nearly kidnapped!"
Also... I remember Caldor. Heh
Alternatively, walk along the middle aisle looking left and right. How I used to do it
there was a specific time when I was in a store with my mom. I told her I needed to use the bathroom and to stay in the aisle. She said fine and I left. I come back and she's gone 😐
They did an announcement over the speakers, I was so embarrassed. And pissed off lmao.
she had one job
I turn my cellphone off we can't have this new generation not knowing how to deal with a life without a phone.
@@lorireed8046"new generation" ok boomer
@@pinkbubblesnake I'm sorry you can't figure out life without a phone. Probably couldn't tell a stranger what your Mom's phone number is if you lost your phone either.
@@lorireed8046 Most people I know, myself included, have their parents numbers memorized - and in today's society, it is also true that you cannot really function without a phone (if only so employers have a convenient way to contact you.) Turning your phone off and intentionally ignoring someone does not teach them anything, it is simply you turning your phone off.
@@lorireed8046 Also in high school me and some friends did a school project called 'phone fasting' (we turned our phones completely off and didn't use them at all for a month.) We couldn't do this now because we need our phones at our jobs, but it isn't that hard and none of us complained much after the first day. Just because people use their phones often doesn't mean they need them. Back then, I didn't need my phone at all, but I had it so why wouldn't I use it?
I’d have a tendency to walk off in department stores when I was a kid. That feeling of fear when you look around and realize your parents are not there! It’s like you think they just went home without you. 😂
Then I’d see them standing an aisle over watching me and laughing. I still get ticked off at them when I think about it. They’re like, “We had to teach you not to wander off.” Right, Mom. Im sure that was the reason and it wasn’t that you and Dad were just a tiny bit twisted. (This is why Gen X turned out like we did!) 😂
Omg this but when you went to the park and didn’t want to go home so your parents would say “okay I’m leaving without you then, have fun being homeless” and would literally walk off, turn the car on, and start driving away. The trauma that caused me back then, it was always funny to them but a traumatic experience as a kid
When I hear about Gen X's childhoods, I totally get how we got here
@@gwenculver1040 That’s even worse!!
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I remember getting lost at Disney World in the 80's... that is the real panicking situation there. I was five. I was found by my own uncle who just happened to visit the same day and neither of him or my Dad realized it. From what I remembered I wanted ice cream and I paused at a window of a shop selling them, my parents thought I was still in the little crowd with my 4 other siblings. Yeah, you can imagine the panic when they realized I wasn't there.
I did get an ice cream cone in the end though... I'm pretty sure the situation was where my parents got their first white hairs.
Guess I lived in the 90's until I was 17.
The amount of times that I'd lose that woman because she simply didn't pay attention to where her kids were growing up. We would walk ahead so she could watch us, she'd stop to look at something and not tell anyone and oops there's a lost 12 year old. The funniest part is when I'd go to customer service to ask them to call for her on the intercom, she'd get mad at me for "running off" as if I could telepathically just know she stopped to look at something.
I got lost with out a phone I WAS ABOUT TO CRY UNTILL.... My mom said my name from the aisle next to me and she said she would be in the aisle I was in before I got lost.
I helped a kid once at Target who was just certain that her mom had left because she had walked up and down the whole store (and we were one of the largest ones) three or four times. I assured her that her mom would never do that, and that it's really easy to miss people in such a giant store as I walked her up to the front. I paged her mom to guest services and waited with the girl until her mom showed up. She was crying and I was trying not to cry cuz my mom really did ditch me in dangerous places more than once because of drugs and undiagnosed mental health issues. I was standing there pretending to be fine while all kinds of childhood trauma flared up, damned cptsd, lol. Anyway, her mom showed up about 5 minutes later like "WHERE WERE YOU!?"
I was at sea world last year with my husband, and being a flight attendant, I am always observing my surroundings. Well, I was passing by the kiddie section, and I noticed a little girl waltzing her way in the opposite direction from us. A little while later, I see a woman panicking and yelling out her daughter’s name. I walked up to her, and I said, “ma’am, are you calling out for a little girl that looked like this?” And I proceeded to describe the girl as best as I could. She said “YES!” I told her where I saw her, and I offered to help her locate the child. I found the little girl first, and I called out the mom. She came running and hugged her daughter. I told her the little girl to not stray from her mom again and left. I could understand the poor woman. Things like human trafficking are real threats, and I see too many lax parents out there without a care.
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when i didn't have my phone i would wait for her at the cashier because I know my mom would leave without me 💀
I am a 20's kid but I got lost like I am in the 90's and it was a very scary experience.
Kids losing their moms in the 80s nobody panics.We eventually look down other isles and see our beloved mother with no fear
At my last cashier job I still had to page people up to the front to meet their missing party members occasionally. Didn't happen as often as I remember it happening as a kid, but regularly enough that it wasn't a rare thing.
I don’t gotta a phone so I’m in 90’s
My kids are 90's kids. They never got or felt lost at the store because I got them comfortable with being there, knew the routine and were always given small tasks to accomplish. It reached the point they'd do much of the shopping themselves. They were six and eight at the time.
Sounds about right. We def had responsibilities!
Thank you for being a parent of 90's kids who didn't drop the ball, lose their kids and start this whole stupid short. I'm an 80's kid and my parents watched me like responsible adults.
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i was born in 2008 but i SO relate with the 90s… back in the 2010s kids didn’t have a phone and i vividly remember being outside of my home town, lost in a shop, crying because i had lost my uncle 💀 kids these days will never experience this 😭
Dude same I was also born in 2008 but didn’t have a phone or iPad when I was young like others
It was the worst feeling!!! That’s one of those things that has finally changed for the better!
I was born a little after but same thing happened to me, holding my little sister while the worker announced over the intercom where we were
Born in 2010, same thing happens way too much. Also what do you mean by “kids these days”, we are the kids these days bro and even if you’re talking about like YOUNG young kids I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have a phone.
Same but I’m born 2009 lol
Gen Z who won’t get phones til high school bc they have Asian moms:
I'd just be wandering around the toy or video game section when I'd lose my dad and he'd always find me in those departments when ready to check out
What did you wonder about? lol
Careful not to leave kids unattended while you shop. Predators out there
I still end up in the book section
I used to hide in the middle of the round clothes racks and my poor mom had to look all over for me. I was such a little shit. Now I’m the one that has to look for her because she never answers her phone. …and I totally deserve it. 😂
When I was a kid whit no phone I would run across the store in panic trying to find them cause in europe we don't have the thing to announce but now i just call them asking where are they
I remember being lost, I walked Isle to Isle turns out they have been watching me run from afar
Aisle* that was me too!
I remember whenever my brothers and I would separate from our mom we would speak loudly about how “it’s a good thing we know karate!” We didn’t know karate but we thought that would scare kidnappers away 😂
Sooo cute
Omg that's hilarious and soooo like me and my brother too 🤣 hey > i think it makes us sensible kids!
I remember I was staying at the Nintendo center at target my mom left me I went up front to the checkout I saw my parents I WAS CRYING 😭😭😭😭
Thats me in 2010 when I was 10. Thank Gosh my mom and I figured out by 2015 that we can text to each other to find out were we are
My kids just listened for my keys. They made such a distinctive sound, even their friends could recognize the sound
Hello can I make an announcement I lost my daughter. GOODBYE YOU LITTLE SHI-
I had this habit of just disappearing and roaming through the store on my own, so my dad would just whistle if he was looking for me. Never got lost throughout my entire childhood lmao
My dad did the same thing!
My mom would call my dad by whistle too in the 90s lol
Awww my grandma had this whistle, she did that when she couldn't find us.
I got lost in a theme park and because my mother terrified me about talking to strangers, anytime an adult approached to help, I ran 😂
I knew about stranger danger but would trust only people in uniforms: police, attendants, clerks, doctors, etc. I think parents really need to teach that to their kids. Yes, don’t talk to just anyone, but if you’re lost, seek out legitimate sources of help aka someone with a uniform.
That was me when I was ages 5-8. I was born in the late 2000s
Edit: I am not specifying which year because that is private information
I'm from 2003, and I relate to this in my earlier childhood, too! My mother doesn't care; she would walk away with no fear and expect me to able to find her easily XD
Good times. Luckily my mom always shopped the same route every time for that reason. So if any of us kids got lost we just knew to go to one of her usual spots and wait or look down every aisle till we found her haha.
Nawrrrhhhhh bro I would lose my mom on purpose closing my eyes and find her in like 15 second and she would be far away, the longest it took me was around 20 second
When I lost my mom in the grocery store
I would just remember the order of aisle she would go to, then remember what she needed then go to that aisle. Then drag my brother from trying to admire the donuts in the bakery. She would never know we left
Smart!
@@Oyuki-Mayonesa ikr
Literally the most terrifying thing kids in the west will have ever experienced 😭🤣
school shootings
@@leomcshizzlepjocastdeserve1631 that’s just Americans, the rest of us can’t relate
@@Cereal_For_Lunch that’s nice for you that your country cares about your safety
Dude I just leave my phone in the car and I regret it or it’s dead😅
When I was younger I played Marco Polo to find them. It was only a hassle when other people started joining in and they’d be confronted by a gremlin looking for her parentals.
In the 90's we would just look for our parent and if we couldn't find them, we'd have the store make an announcement over the loud speaker! Lol
I’m not a 90’s kid but this happened to me once when I was younger, I panicked and when my mum found me she started ripping out my hair- 😭
This is still my mom. If you look away for a second she's gone. I have a certain whistle that i do that's loud, loud like one of those dad whistles that you can hear blocks away, and you'll see her head pop- up, from wherever she is, like a meerkat. It cracks me up everytime.
I remember getting lost at Walmart and crying uncontrollably. Then going to the front and having a lady announce over the intercom for my mom to come up to the front of the store. It's the worst feeling ever to lose your mom in the toy aisle. Everytime we went to the store after that, I made sure I was glued to my mom.
What about the kids that dont have phones😭
When I go into a store with my sister and mother, it’s not us who’s lost, it’s our mother.
In the 70’s I’d just climb up on the racks or a nearby shelf and look for her.
Oh my god i remember when i was like 7 i lost my mom in a Marshall's- i legit had to go up front and they called my mom to the check out, it was hilarious and scary at the same time. Old times, eh?
Even thought it’s not the 90s even with my phone or iPad I still look for my mom and scream and do not text her lol
I remember losing my mom in the 80s. We’d just walked up and down the front or back of the store and looked down each aisle, This was not a big deal. We had to find them in camp grounds, theme parks and sporting events too. We learned how to deal with it. 🤷♀️
One time I lost my grandma at Walmart and started screaming in Spanish and ppl were laughing at me turns out she was in the aisle next to me but I stopped speaking Spanish bc of that 😊
See even thought his happened to me around like 2015 ish I still feel it was exactly like the 90’s one
I dont text my mum when i lose her in the store because im to panicked to remember and i always end up finding her 20 minutes later bc she calls me 😭😭
me: just runs through the whole store searching every isle💀
U got it wrong…😭
This still happens too this day accept kids are literally getting snatched
Usually if I lose my mum in the store I don’t use my phone and I look for her instead it’s really not that hard
i dont have a sim card so idc how old i am im still ginna panick running down isles to find my dad (i shop with my dad)
In 2023 kids losing their dad be like:
Random guy:where is your parents?
Kid:They went to get the milk but never came back🤣💀
I still can’t find her tho she never answers her phone😂😂😂
I think I'm stuck in the 90s 😀
I remember one time me, my mom, and my brother were at a mall so when we were gonna go upstairs I told her that I would take the excavator (I think that’s how you spell it) instead of the elevator but I wasn’t listening to what she was saying so I went upstairs I didn’t see her and my brother come out of the elevator or waiting at the elevator so for 20-30 minutes or so I was looking for her but then finally I found her and my brother it turned out her and my brother were downstairs the whole time while I was looking for them upstairs she had to tell the manger to help her find me but she and the manager couldn’t find me … I found her👁️👄👁️ (thank you for reading this)
Edit: she didn’t tell the manager to help look for me she wasn’t even looking for me cause she knew I was upstairs also I was to lazy to erase it so I just made this edit
Nobody gonna talk about how parents actually give kids their own phones without realizing the terrible stuff on social media which they *do* watch?
Alright, then.
Bro when I was little this happened to me over and over not in the 90s tho
Ummm I don't get my phone when I go to the store soooooo IM LOSTTT I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 5YRS😢😢😢😢😂
Ever since watching this when I hear this song in my mind I go “oh, cool” every. Single. TIME!😭
Kids now : goes to the exit door to wait for their mums to come
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I wasn’t born in the 90s but yet I still scream to find my mom because I can’t text her lol
For me :
Me: where r u
Mom: are you serious 😂
Me: WHERE U AT
mom: chip isle
Me: thanks
kidnapper:it's my time to shine
Nope even though we both have a phone, I never think to use it. I'm Still lost, I have called my friends and told them I was lost in a store but never thought to call my grandmother or text her and tell her I am lost