Eljay
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2002
It's astonishing to me that parents turn their backs on kids anywhere, including WDW.
I saw a situation at the AKL last year that worried me sick. We had bought our breakfasts at the Mara, (which is the pool area counter service restaurant at the AKL) and went outside to eat at a table near the pool. After a minute or so, I realized that there was a tiny girl, maybe 3, sitting alone at a nearby table. We decided to say hi to her to see if she had an adult close by. She started to cry. OMG, I gently went to her and asked where her mom was. This caused a stir of people in the area who also noticed that she was alone and we all set about finding who she belonged to. It turned out that she was on vacation with Grandma, who had left this baby ALONE, NEAR THE POOL, to save a table so she could buy breakfast. Words were spoken when grandma returned, but she seemed to think we were all over reacting. That haunted me all day, to think that someone could have scooped that little girl up or that she could have ended up in the pool. What the #^@% was grandma thinking?
Gosh, I had forgotten about that until I read this.
I saw a situation at the AKL last year that worried me sick. We had bought our breakfasts at the Mara, (which is the pool area counter service restaurant at the AKL) and went outside to eat at a table near the pool. After a minute or so, I realized that there was a tiny girl, maybe 3, sitting alone at a nearby table. We decided to say hi to her to see if she had an adult close by. She started to cry. OMG, I gently went to her and asked where her mom was. This caused a stir of people in the area who also noticed that she was alone and we all set about finding who she belonged to. It turned out that she was on vacation with Grandma, who had left this baby ALONE, NEAR THE POOL, to save a table so she could buy breakfast. Words were spoken when grandma returned, but she seemed to think we were all over reacting. That haunted me all day, to think that someone could have scooped that little girl up or that she could have ended up in the pool. What the #^@% was grandma thinking?
Gosh, I had forgotten about that until I read this.