Abandoned...
another night out in Germany, another sitter. This particular 'do' was only a five minute walk from our house. Mum hired a sitter, a local girl, who'd been told by her Mum that yes she could sit, but only until midnight. Mum was fine with this and aimed to leave the party in time.
Shit happened, they were late home. The sitter had, indeed, just dicked off at 12. I'd obviously heard the door, come down in my jimjams and gone wandering off into the night looking for my Mum.
They got home at ten past 12 to find the front door open and me gone.
Cue much franticness and terror.
I was found, after a few minutes that must have felt like decades, three doors down with a neighbour of my Mum's who had cool cushions with cats on them and was a favourite place of mine to visit.

*edited to say that this time I was only three..
( Sallyrsm, Thu 28 Oct 2010, 18:03, Reply)