Oh dear. My eldest was a very tired little tiger that let himself in at 7.30am this morning, still covered in orange paint and black stripes but looking a little worse for wear. Not quite the impressive outfit he was wearing in my the photo on my previous post. Not Happy Halloween at all.
He’d been having a great time, but at around 2am whilst outside tying his shoelace with his phone in his mouth somebody stole it and ran off. He consequently lost all his friends and had to get the night bus home. He then predictably fell asleep on the bus for what must have been hours because not only did he miss his stop, he didn’t wake up when the bus got to it’s destination and was still on it when he woke up back in Central London three hours later! Then he had to get a tube from Piccadilly with all the children on their way to school still looking like a tiger. By the time he arrived home, I was beside myself because I hadn’t been able to reach him and was in the process of trying to contact his friends.
My bath and towels are now orange and he is crashed out on the sofa having had to report it to the police.
I know he was careless, but why is it a given that our children are routinely mugged for their phones in London these days? And why aren’t bus drivers allowed to wake them up?
It took him four hours to get home in the end…..
N xx
November 1, 2011Oh no! Poor you and Tiger! I can really relate to the panic when they don’t answer the phone. Just awful! Xx
Expat Mum
November 1, 2011Wow, I didn’t know bus drivers weren’t allowed to wake passengers up? Good god, you’re going to have to lock him in his room – he;s giving you gray hairs!!!
Family Affairs
November 1, 2011I know. Can you see them in the pictures?? Do you think Matt noticed those?? Lx