I wonder what would have happened to me when I accidentally left one of my newborn twins in her carseat by a dumpster?
The back story is that I had three older children-a nine-year-old, a hyperactive seven-year-old, and a two-year-old, as well as the other twin. I had been visiting a friend. When it was time to leave I changed the twins’ diapers and buckled them in their car seats. I carried the two diaper bags and our picnic basket out to the car, and rolled down all the windows. I came back to get one of the twins but then I realized after I got out there, how hot it still was in the car. So I put her car seat on the ground in the shade of a dumpster near where I was parked. I called the two oldest kids over to me and put them in the car. And I returned for the two-year-old and put her in the car.
Then I noticed the seven-year-old was gone, so I found him and took him down off of the top of the dumpster. I put him back in the car and re-buckled the the two-year-old who was smart enough to unbuckle herself. Then I went for the other baby, and put her in the car. By this time the seven-year-old had gotten out and disappeared around the back of the house. I left the kids in the car and went to retrieve him again.
Eventually after having buckled everybody in multiple times, I left for home. A half-mile from the house I realized I only had one baby in the car, so I quickly made a U-turn and roared back to get the other baby who was still asleep in her car seat beside the dumpster. When I found her, the nearby high school was letting out and students were walking everywhere. Thank God nobody noticed her, and double thanks that the garbage truck didn’t show up, or I might have gone to jail myself!