My children are doing a tennis camp this week - some kids (including them) leave at lunchtime, others stay all day. All children have been given an identical drawstring bag, and most are using it for holding their lunch, cap, suncream etc.
Today I picked my children up at 12, they walked out with their bags, put them in the car, and we went out for the afternoon.
This evening I emptied their bags to wash up their snack boxes, and found that my son had put his things into another child's bag and then brought it home - and that there was a lunchbox packed full of food. Some poor child has had no food for lunch today (luckily their water bottle wasn't in there too).
I have chucked the food as it would be inedible after being in a hot car all afternoon (except the crisp packet and muesli bar).
My quandary is - should I pack the child a lunch tomorrow? I think probably not, as I imagine that their parent would go ahead and do it for them anyway. However, I feel embarrassed as to what happened, and sad that their child had no lunch (although I'm hoping that coaches/children would have shared some food with them?).
I am not sure whether packing them a lunch is over the top (I think it probably is) or a nice gesture in some way as an apology for taking their lunch today?
I will of course let the coaches know what happened and apologise to the child/parent int he morning - and double check bags before leaving in future!