Yesterday afternoon I had a major scare that shocked the shit out of me. My maid had gone to the lobby to wait for the transporter to drop Alycia off. Then I received a call on my cell phone from the van driver. In a panicky tone, she told me that she’s already at the lobby of our condo but Alycia wasn’t in the van!!! She told me that she had called out all the names of the kids in the van and the kids said Alycia was in the van but she WAS NOT IN!! I asked the driver to quickly go back to school to look for Alycia. How can this happen??? How can the driver be so negligent? I have left my precious daughter in her hands and pay her RM180 a month. How how could she have left my precious daughter behind? What if something bad happens to my daughter? Can she return my baby to me? Though she’s in Primary 2, she’s only 7yo being a December child, still almost a toddler. My mind as usual fast forwarded to the worst case scenario – would she be kidnapped or was she kidnapped? Would she walk out of school to look for the driver? OMG, I was panick-stricken. My mil too. Quickly called my hubs who was busy at work. Our close friend who was in our house at the time offered to bring my mil to school right away to look for Alycia. The next 20 minutes felt like a standstill. Why didn’t the driver call me back? She told me that she had asked a school teacher to look for Alycia but why hadn’t she call back? I called the driver umpteen times to check on the status. Finally, my hubs called me. He had found Alycia. The driver also called me. The teacher had found Alycia. All 3 cars sped off to school in search of Alycia. There was a near-miss kidnap case of a primary school girl in that school last year.
About 40 minutes later after the first call that every mother would dread receiving, Alycia was finally home. According to her, the class teacher had asked some of the students to stay behind to complete some work, thus Alycia came out late. But Alycia appeared unfazed and told me she wasn’t scared a wee bit when she could not see Aunty J, the van driver. I’m not sure if she was telling the truth. She was a tad teary eyed when I asked her why the teacher asked her to stay behind to complete her work. It could be she made a mistake and had to do correction or did not complete some work that the teacher had asked her to do.
I gave the driver a piece of my mind. Told her the things she should have done to ensure that all the kids are in the van and not just call out names and assume that the kid is in. What if the other kids tried to pull the van driver’s leg and answered YES on behalf of Alycia? The driver apologized profusely.
After the incident, I have been drumming non-stop into Alycia’s head the list of things that she should do if this happens again. Now, maybe I should also speak to the teacher and tell her not to make the kids stay behind to complete work, especially if the kid has a transporter waiting for him/her.
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