This should be titled "The Break-out Artist Part 1" as there is a Part 2 that I'll get to in the next post.
As a toddler, I was full of energy (so I'm told) and was always on the move. This made it difficult for my mother to do housework in a timely fashion while trying to keep me from creating a new mess behind her. One Summer day she decided the best solution was to attach one end of a rope to here outside laundry line and the other end of the rope around my waist. I would have a fixed range of travel and she was sure I couldn't do any damage outside. She was somewhat mistaken!
I was out in the backyard in my diaper hooked up to this "toddler run" for only a short time before I schucked the rope around my waist and went for a tour. I was hungry and decided to go up the street to the Dominion store (dating myself here).
I remember stopping at the end of Oliver Street where it meets Trafalgar, with the Dominion store in my sights on the other side. Before crossing, I did what Elmer The Safety Elephant always preached, "Look both ways before you cross the street". I crossed the street and walked into the Dominion store. Nobody paid much attention to me, that is, until I got what I was looking for and exited the store. I had taken a box of Apple Jacks off the shelf and walked out guilt free. Once outside I sat down on the curb and opened the box of cereal and began to eat. Life doesn't get much better, sitting around in your diaper outside on a beautiful day eating sugary cereal!
Before too long, someone from the store was standing beside me asking me my name and if my mother was in the store and where I lived. I don't recall them trying to take the cereal away from me. The next thing I remember, a nice policeman shows up and takes me the 400 odd feet back to my home. My mother is out on the front steps crying for some reason.
May have gotten a spanking for that and probably shaved some years off of Mom's life.
This wasn't the end of it though....
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