One of our dayshift nurse managers has a 4 year old son named Ben and twin two year old girls. She took them all to the Atlanta aquarium last weekend. Ben is very smart for a four-year old, and has a toy truck that he takes everywhere in a backpack. He was wearing the backpack to the aquarium. After they had been there about an hour, the nurse goes to tie her little girls' shoelaces and when she stands up, Ben is GONE. She freaks out, screaming his name frantically. About 8 or 10 minutes later he walks up out of nowhere like nothing had happened. She spanked him right there and insisted they leave immediately. During the 4 hour drive home she lectured him about what might have happened to him. When they get home, he wants to take a bath, which is not unusual for him because he loves bathtime. She goes in to wash his hair...
HE HAD A LIVE BABY PENGUIN IN THE TUB WITH HIM, PLAYING WITH IT!!!
He had stolen the baby penguin from the aquarium, put in in his backpack, and brought it home!!!
Her father happens to be a judge in Atlanta, and she called him in hysterics, he made some calls and a few hours later two men from the aquarium showed up to get the penguin and bring it back.
:angryfire :angryfire omg!!! that lying sneak... she sent that story in email to all of us at the facility, i can't believe she made it up... :angryfire :angryfire
i am going to copy that article and send it in an email to the whole facility just like she did... i can't believe that...
this is the email she sent:
hey everyone!
i just had to let you know about what ben did, for those who haven't met him, my son is a very precocious 4 year old, extremely smart for his age and very talkative. i took him and my twins audrey and amber (they just turned two last week) to the aquarium in atlanta over the weekend. ben's latest thing is toy trucks and cars, he simply has to carry his backpack full of his favorites everywhere. well, we weren't at the aquarium more than an hour when i went to tie audrey's little shoes and i looked up and ben was gone. i was scared to death, and all these visions of what could have happened to him were flashing through my mind... i was screaming his name over and over, and after 8 or 10 of the most frightening minutes of my life, he just walks right up to me like nothing happened. "what's wrong, mommy?" grrrrr.... well i spanked his little bottom right there and told him we were leaving. the whole ride back i told him what could have happened to him, that he could have been kidnapped, etc. he promised he'd never do that again and even cried, so i thought i'd done good. (stay with me, i do have a point to this story). when we got home after almost four hours, he wanted to take a bath, and he loves baths so i didn't think anything of it. after about ten minutes i went in to wash his hair and almost had a heart attack... he was playing with a baby penguin in the tub! a real, live freakin' penguin!!! when i started freaking out, he said he brought it home in his backpack! all i could think of was that i was going to jail for penguin robbery. luckily, my dad is a judge in atlanta, and i called him. he made some calls for me and that evening two men showed up from the aquarium to take it back. we didn't get in any trouble (whew!) and ben even got a free t-shirt from the men who said he made their day. i just thank god he didn't fall in the water or get hurt grabbing the penguin, they had a bunch of them swimming around in a little pool-like exhibit. i can tell you this, though- i will be watching him like a hawk from now on!
have a great day!
daphne
so you see what i mean? sheesh. i'm going to email that article all over the building. i'm mad...
there's a couple of little 'fake' tags in the email she sent around.
1: i'd be skeptical of anything that reads like a personal email but is sent to all. would you not just tell your friends about it?
2: no-one says 'audrey's little shoes'. you'd just say 'audrey's shoes'. this reads like an attempt to personalise the story.
3: i don't have kids, but i know i wouldn't leave a four-year-old unattended in the bath for ten minutes.
4: you'd think a pool-like pengin exhibit would he high enough that a four-year-old wouldn't be able to get into it. if a water exhibit was really that low, it would be a drowning waiting to happen. also, pengins swim bloody fast, i don't think a kid would be able to just pluck one out of the water, especially without being noticed.
5: pengins smell like rotting fish. you'd smell them in your car on a four hour journey.
:angryfire :angryfire OMG!!! That lying sneak... she sent that story in email to all of us at the facility, I can't believe she made it up... :angryfire :angryfire
I am going to copy that article and send it in an email to the whole facility just like she did... I can't believe that... [/Quote]
Now I'M mad, too.....because I just sent that original post to several friends and family, telling them about this incredibly funny "true" story!! :angryfire That woman should be SHOT for lying and pretending that this stupid thing actually was true and that it happened to HER. Unforgiveable.
NOT mad at you, Lori .....just mostly at myself because I bought into it!! It's easy to have great hindsight and see the message as likely bogus, but I did a knee-jerk "that's too funny" and sent it on.
The REALLY funny thing here is that *I'M* the person on everyone's email list who goes to snopes.com regularly and de-bunks all the crap THEY send to ME! LOL....I was due to get caught myself, but oh, that crow hurts....ack.
:lol2: Hey guys,
LoriAlabamaRN
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:angryfire :angryfire omg!!! that lying sneak... she sent that story in email to all of us at the facility, i can't believe she made it up... :angryfire :angryfire
i am going to copy that article and send it in an email to the whole facility just like she did... i can't believe that...
this is the email she sent:
hey everyone!
i just had to let you know about what ben did, for those who haven't met him, my son is a very precocious 4 year old, extremely smart for his age and very talkative. i took him and my twins audrey and amber (they just turned two last week) to the aquarium in atlanta over the weekend. ben's latest thing is toy trucks and cars, he simply has to carry his backpack full of his favorites everywhere. well, we weren't at the aquarium more than an hour when i went to tie audrey's little shoes and i looked up and ben was gone. i was scared to death, and all these visions of what could have happened to him were flashing through my mind... i was screaming his name over and over, and after 8 or 10 of the most frightening minutes of my life, he just walks right up to me like nothing happened. "what's wrong, mommy?" grrrrr.... well i spanked his little bottom right there and told him we were leaving. the whole ride back i told him what could have happened to him, that he could have been kidnapped, etc. he promised he'd never do that again and even cried, so i thought i'd done good. (stay with me, i do have a point to this story). when we got home after almost four hours, he wanted to take a bath, and he loves baths so i didn't think anything of it. after about ten minutes i went in to wash his hair and almost had a heart attack... he was playing with a baby penguin in the tub! a real, live freakin' penguin!!! when i started freaking out, he said he brought it home in his backpack! all i could think of was that i was going to jail for penguin robbery. luckily, my dad is a judge in atlanta, and i called him. he made some calls for me and that evening two men showed up from the aquarium to take it back. we didn't get in any trouble (whew!) and ben even got a free t-shirt from the men who said he made their day. i just thank god he didn't fall in the water or get hurt grabbing the penguin, they had a bunch of them swimming around in a little pool-like exhibit. i can tell you this, though- i will be watching him like a hawk from now on!
have a great day!
daphne
so you see what i mean? sheesh. i'm going to email that article all over the building. i'm mad...
lori