My kids are both in the Army Cadets. Yesterday my sixteen year old daughter went on her first 'camp' for the weekend. She wasn't feeling well, but she was excited and you know how stubborn teenagers can be...
Half past one in the morning we get a barely coherent phonecall from her - she is lost in the woods in the dark, feels really ill, and can't find her troop.
I don't need to tell you how frantic I was.
My husband drove out to Porchfield to try and find her. I stayed here with scenes from 'Deliverance' running through my head, talking to her on the phone and trying to keep her calm. When she told me that she had found somebody but didn't know who it was... I didn't know whether to be relieved or start screaming 'Run! Run!'
Steve brought her home about half two, the house returned to normal and everyone went to sleep. Except me. I could still hear that banjo. Da-da-DING-ding-DING-ding-DING-ding. *shudder*
I finally dropped off about five o'clock, only to be woken by the alarm a couple of hours later. I look like crap. I'm exhausted. And I have to be at work in less than an hour.
Think I'll just tack a note to my forehead saying 'Wake me if you want to buy anything.'
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ReplyDeleteHow come Steve could find her but she couldn't find anyone else? None of her troop was looking for her?
....Huh? how the hell do you get lost on an island anyway????
sorry...corn-fused here....
'Squeal like a pig'
...lol....oh-man...
How does being on an island stop someone from getting lost in the dark??
ReplyDeleteNo-one was looking for her because they were all asleep - as she should been! Long story.
By the time Steve got there the person who found her had taken her to the Staff Sergeant.
Islands are small ~ you don't have too much space (distance etc..) to go before you reach something 'familiar'
ReplyDelete....you can navigate by the stars...don't they teach stuff like that in the corps?
Oh man.....glad she's okay, though!