How exactly do you forget a 2yr old in the car?

[MJinZ]

Children aren't particularly cute or adorable. Most of them are insufferable brats raised by shitty parents who do things like leave them in hot cars.



If my daughter were to die tomorrow, I certainly wouldn't expect or even want empathy from the world at large. She's precious to me, but in the grand scheme of things just a statistic. Hollow sentiment from strangers is an insult, not a comfort.

Hollow? I don't think so. Humans are programmed to empathize with other humans.

Some humans are defective though.

 

[IronWing]

Child of well-to-do parents => horrific family tragedy, parents must be devastated, wracked with guilt, just awful

Child of low income parents => Crucify them!

 

[BoberFett]

Lets say an ATer has a child and the child dies from something like leukemia. I may not know the poster or his/her child, but I can certainly empathize and I would convey that empathy to the person. You seem to have a very cynical view of the world. You are certainly entitled to it, but I sure am glad most don't share that view or the world would be an even more f-ed up and cold place than it already is.

I think more people share my view than you care to realize. True empathy is rare. Most of it is ego stroking, with the empathizer trying to prove just how empathetic they are.

"No, I didn't know the girl who died, but I'm more sad about it than you are, and that makes me a better person."

Cynical? Sure, if you want to call it that. I prefer realistic.

 

[BoberFett]

Some humans are defective though.

Don't feel bad, your parents did the best they could with what little they had to work with.

 

[ShawnD1]

Unless you are 12 then i call shens on all that. you cant compare a lost wallet or keys to a child. I have lost my keys, wallet etc.

I'm under the assumption that most people have never lost their wallet. I've asked several people how you're supposed to replace all of your cards if you lose your wallet and so far nobody knows the answer. How do you get a replacement driver's license? Without the ID that was in your wallet, you can't really prove who you are. I can't get a clear answer out of anyone because losing your wallet is something that most people never need to deal with.
I really want you to test this. Ask your wife, kids, friends, relatives how to get a replacement driver's license. If they don't know, then they've never lost their wallet.

About the locking the keys in your car thing, I've only seen that happen 1 time. My mom locked her keys in the car and my school principal helped her open the door with a coat hangar. One thing worth mentioning is that she immediately noticed that her keys were in the car. It's not like she left the keys in car for 5 hours then came back to find her keys dead still inside the car. If you forget your baby inside a car, that should be at the most for a few minutes. Step outside the car, hey wait a second didn't I have a baby? Go back, grab the baby, go inside the church.

 

[AreaCode707]

I'm under the assumption that most people have never lost their wallet. I've asked several people how you're supposed to replace all of your cards if you lose your wallet and so far nobody knows the answer. How do you get a replacement driver's license? Without the ID that was in your wallet, you can't really prove who you are. I can't get a clear answer out of anyone because losing your wallet is something that most people never need to deal with.
I really want you to test this. Ask your wife, kids, friends, relatives how to get a replacement driver's license. If they don't know, then they've never lost their wallet.

About the locking the keys in your car thing, I've only seen that happen 1 time. My mom locked her keys in the car and my school principal helped her open the door with a coat hangar. One thing worth mentioning is that she immediately noticed that her keys were in the car. It's not like she left the keys in car for 5 hours then came back to find her keys dead still inside the car. If you forget your baby inside a car, that should be at the most for a few minutes. Step outside the car, hey wait a second didn't I have a baby? Go back, grab the baby, go inside the church.

Geez, how old are you, 13?

Do you think AAA has a roadside car-unlock service built into the plans because nobody ever forgets their keys? Do you think credit card companies and state DMVs have replacement card policies and procedures for no reason? Millions of people in the US each year lose and forget things. It's simply part of human nature. My roommate, with an IQ of 136 and an anal-retentive sense of organization, managed to forget his keys in Maine when his car was in San Francisco and didn't notice for hours.

FYI, to get a replacement driver's license you take in two primary pieces of identification or three secondary pieces of identification and request it. I know that and I've never lost my wallet. It varies from state to state but that's the deal in Washington.

 

[waggy]

I'm under the assumption that most people have never lost their wallet. I've asked several people how you're supposed to replace all of your cards if you lose your wallet and so far nobody knows the answer. How do you get a replacement driver's license? Without the ID that was in your wallet, you can't really prove who you are. I can't get a clear answer out of anyone because losing your wallet is something that most people never need to deal with.
I really want you to test this. Ask your wife, kids, friends, relatives how to get a replacement driver's license. If they don't know, then they've never lost their wallet.

About the locking the keys in your car thing, I've only seen that happen 1 time. My mom locked her keys in the car and my school principal helped her open the door with a coat hangar. One thing worth mentioning is that she immediately noticed that her keys were in the car. It's not like she left the keys in car for 5 hours then came back to find her keys dead still inside the car. If you forget your baby inside a car, that should be at the most for a few minutes. Step outside the car, hey wait a second didn't I have a baby? Go back, grab the baby, go inside the church.

i have lost my wallet (with $400 in it!) and locked my keys in the car.

for my wallet i just took bills i had in my name to the DMV and called the Credit card places. Pretty much EVERYONE i know has lost a wallet at least once (ages 35-67).

When i was 17 i locked my keys in the car. i stopped at my bank to make a deposit. soon as i closed the door i knew what i had done. while kicking the car a officer pulled up and asked what was wrong. he laughed and got the door open.

now that I'm 36 with 2 kids i don't understand how anyone could actually do it (yes i read the articles on it). sure there are reasons for it. but i just can't see how anyone could actually do it. it does really blow my mind.

 

[Linflas]

i have lost my wallet (with $400 in it!) and locked my keys in the car.

for my wallet i just took bills i had in my name to the DMV and called the Credit card places. Pretty much EVERYONE i know has lost a wallet at least once (ages 35-67).

When i was 17 i locked my keys in the car. i stopped at my bank to make a deposit. soon as i closed the door i knew what i had done. while kicking the car a officer pulled up and asked what was wrong. he laughed and got the door open.

now that I'm 36 with 2 kids i don't understand how anyone could actually do it (yes i read the articles on it). sure there are reasons for it. but i just can't see how anyone could actually do it. it does really blow my mind.

I bet that every person in the Post article I linked felt exactly the same as you before it happened to them.

 

[tk149]

bullshit.

Kids are an accessory, just like everything else.
-I have never lost my keys
-I have never lost my wallet
-I have never lost my cell phone
-I have never locked my keys in the car
-I have never forgot that there is milk in my trunk that needs to be refrigerated immediately
-I never forget to lock my doors
-I never forget that there is a fucking dog or child in my car that also needs to be refrigerated immediately and not left in the sun to die

Like seriously how do you fuck this up? Are the people accidentally locking kids and dogs in cars the same people who lose their keys every fucking day then forget their bank card number then forget how much they owe on their credit card then forget they have a wife and get married a second time in vegas then forget electricity is dangerous and accidentally kill themselves?

Have you ever had this problem with a fully grown adult? Like you get out of the car and don't realize that your friend never got out of the car?? If you had a friend visiting you and you went out to your garage to get something, would you ever in a million years forget that you had a friend inside your house? Would you go to the bank and Home Depot then think "hey wait a second, like 2 hours ago I had a friend in my kitchen and we were talking. What happened? Oh shit, did I just leave him inside my house while I drove to buy plumbing supplies? Man I'm so embarassed retarded'

Awesome, you're in the top 0.0000001% of the population. The rest of the population is like me. Sometimes we forget stuff because we don't have perfect recall.

I have:
- forgotten where I put my wallet and spent up to 15 minutes searching for it
- forgotten there was a gallon of milk in my trunk...and found it the next day
- forgotten where I put my car keys and spent two days searching for them

And clearly, you haven't read Linflas's article. Please do so, and then refute the research done on memory.

 

[waggy]

- forgotten there was a gallon of milk in my trunk...and found it the next day

ewww i bet that was bad.

when i was 16 i got a gallon of milk and it spilled in the trunk. i ran in to grab towels but my girlfriend at the time was sitting on the porch in skimpy shorts/tank top and said she wanted to go to my room...()

yeah i forgot real fast about the milk. 2 days later i got in the car and man it smelled.

i sold the damn car ASAP (paid $50 for it).