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hugs!

I bet that was terrifying...I did that w/ my car once and it was insane, I was a lunatic, god bless AAA, I would have broken the window but he seemed okay as long as I was in sight! You learn valuable lessons sometimes the hard way!

Poor angel, I can imagine he was really upset...but its funny, my Nicholas (same age and dx as your guy) got over it really fast...I just cried for the entire car ride after that and dropped him off at school a mess...lol...and grey hairs...what are those? I color those suckers and keep em hid! LOL I have a nice little streak on my temple, they say they come from stress...gee you think?

lol

Ali

Ahh yes I remember it well! We were on our way to the beach. We stopped at the store to pick up some snacks on our way there. AJ started having a melt down inside the store. Hubby told me to take him out to the jeep. AJ was two at the time. I put AJ in his car seat and threw the keys up in the front seat. After I got him in the car seat, I shut the door. I went to open mine, and it was locked! I was freaking!!! Luckily someone seen me freak and helped me. Hubby came outside and seen people standing around the jeep. He KNEW what happened and wasn't too happy with me. I wasn't even able to thank the guy properly for helping me out...*sigh* AJ was doing just fine. It was me that turned into a nut case. i KNOW TO WELL WHAT YOU ALL SEEM TO HAVE BEEN THROUGH TOO WELL NOW I HAVE A key hidden outside and a key hidden under the car also (magnet) it happens on a daily basis but now i'm prepared

okay first its so nice to know we are not alone....second LMAOROTF!!!! Jean...girl that story was priceless!!!

Hey Jennifer, I'll cross myfingers for you too LOL

hugs to all!

Ali

Ali,

Oh yes as soon as I walked in the door Matthew said "hi mommy, go outside?" and out the back door he went playing on his swing. Like nothing in the world had happened and I just stood there and shook.

Well were at it, I'll tell you my story. Mine is a little different.

We were on a holiday; and we were running late to get to our friends house 4 hours away for dinner. I stopped at a gas station to use the pay phone to let our friends know we would be arriving late. My son {12 } at the time decided to use the washroom at the station. Being on the spectrum he didn't tell any one he had left the vehicle. Prior to us stopping he was laying down on the back seat of a mini-van.

You can imagine my grief half an hour later when I tried to talk to him and he didn't answer

What a nightmare; strange town , I drove frantically back down the highway, and there he was running like he has been chasing the van.

You can bet both of us will never forget to check at every stop.

OK, it is time for me to tell my naked and wet story.....tehehe, perhaps since it has a happy ending, it will make some of you smile and that would be well worth it. Sometime smiles are few and far for me.

My DH and I are from Appalachia and in addition to all the (old) hillbilly jokes, we do have many words and sayings that are unique to the region. You must know that going into the story.

My DS was about 2, maybe 2 1/2 and it was a Saturday. I had made an appointment with my DH to watch my son so I could shave my legs and take a bath. As I was in the shower, hair all suds up with shampoo, my DH comes into the bathroom and he screams 'hurry, hurry the baby is gone'. Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, when you say that someone is 'gone' where I am from, it doesn't mean that they went to the grocery or the movie, it means they are dead.

I jumped out of the shower, water still running, strip stark naked, with shampoo running into my eyes and dripping all over everywhere, I am blind as a bat without my glasses, which were lying on the sink...and I ran for my baby's life, what had happened, he fell down the stairs? He got into electricity? what, did I remember how to do CPR????? Where was the phone for DH to call 911, I ran down the stairs, into the living room, no baby, I ran into the tv room, no baby- I screamed where is he, where is he...DH said, I told you I dont know, he is gone.

I can not discribe the sheer releif I felt, my baby wasnt dead, he was just gone. My DH has lived away from 'home' so long that he had misused the word. After a few seconds, I re-paniced (yes I know that isnt a word). My baby was gone............still naked and without glasses (I assure you not a pretty sight! I cant even stand to look at me naked). I raced outside , DH went one way and I the other- no baby.........We came back inside DH went upstairs. I took downstairs. Baby was sitting in the floor, between the couch and bookshelf, quietly and sweetly looking through his books...............I was suddenly so overcome with anger toward my DH, I truly dont knowhow I didnt beat him! I was shaking and sick all over for a couple of hours andmad asa wet (lol) hen for days!!!

we have a key hid safely outside, just in case I ever get locked out....

Jean38589.2078703704my othr son and i were out shoveling snow and when we went to come back in frank had locked the storm door on us. i rang the bell and he came to door and looked at us all covered in snow and walked away. would not unlock door for anything. i was nervous about what he was doing but also had to go to the bathroom. finally i had to break window in storm door to get in. he knows how to unlock the door so it was something he did to be funny i think.

I have a couple so bear with me. Zach was in his carseat, and my girls are were 5 and 9 at the time so I left them in the mini van while I ran into the dollar store in our town to grab a card and come right back out. All of a sudden both girls are by my side and I yell go get back in the van, they say we can't. I'm like oh sh*t! Luckly the air conditioning was running and I had left a window cracked also, it took an hr, to open the doors on my mini van (I can't belive it's that hard to open) but we did get it open and everyone was fine. Another time my same daughter who did that stunt locked us out of the house with Zachary in the playpen at 2 yrs. old luckly he did not know how to climb and was fine. We were on the porch grilling. My mom has a spare key and lives close so we made her ride her bike over to get the key for us. We just finished grilling dinner and no one was the wiser LOL. Another time the same dd locked us out of the van at a family reunion (no spare keys) she had been watching a movie in there (she was board) and we found out it only takes 30 seconds to break into my mom's chevy venture van! My lumina is the hard one!

These were all done by my NT dd over the years from age 7 thru 9 can you belive it! My other two have never locked me out of the house or car. (crossing fingers and knocking on wood!)

ok this happened to me not once, not twice but three times. The first time I had just showered (hair was wet and it was cold outside) and stepped onto the front porch to get something when I turned around Isaiah (then 1.5 yr old) was at the door and had locked it YIKES!....Anna knows how to turn it but she was in her room and I kept calling her and calling her to come to the door, after a few minutes she came and saved me.

THe second time I took trash out back and Anna experiemented w/the bolt lock and locked me out...sadly she wasn't sure on how to undo it and it was 10 minutes of "ok, turn...turn the lock...turn it turn it".

THe last time was our basement door that has a child saftey cover on the door knob. I didn't know her little fingers could reach in their and lock it but she locked me in my basement. I just held my breath as she kept fidgeting until it opened.

Grey hairs! OH yes....