Did you ever run away from home?

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When I was eight, my mum wouldn't let me have a guinea pig, so I said I was running away from home. She made me a packed lunch with a cheese sandwich and waved me off. I was pretty non-plussed, ate my sandwich and went home about half an hour later. She very kindly didn't comment on my return.

Did you ever run away?

I did yes. It was mostly a ridiculous and embarrassing (and short-lived) affair.

Yeah I just went and stood on the front door step because it was dark and I didn't know where to go. I can't remember how my parents got me back in but it was in less than 5 minutes, we lived on a very quiet cul de sac and they could see me through the front window

Once, many years ago. I packed a bag and walked to my grandparents house, probably about a 40 minutes walk. It caused absolute chaos. But my parents treated me much better afterwards.

I used to storm out to the disused bus stop next to our house. I’d wait angrily for a bus so I could run away, safe in the knowledge that no bus would ever come, then go home when I got cold/hungry. My mum could see me from the front window so I don’t think she was too worried.

I used to go and hide under a big blackcurrant bush in the garden - that'll teach em I thought - I can still smell that bush - I was about 7 or 8

Yes I used to write out a list of what I’d need, pack my bag and a snack, and set off. I’d literally sit behind the back garden wall and peer over to see if anyone was out looking for me (they never were).

Yes I did. One Sunday when I was 9 I didn't want to have my hair washed so took my favourite doll and my teaset and set up camp in the half built house behind ours. I got bored and went home after a couple of hours. No one even noticed I had gone. I mentioned it to my Dad recently and he had no idea it had happened.

Yes and I remember nobody cared, I went to the end of the road and stayed there for what seemed like ages thinking someone would get worried and come and find me, but nobody did. Then I needed the toilet but I didn’t want to go back so I crept into the back garden and did it in the bushes! Eventually I gave up on the idea someone would come to find me and went back inside, nobody had even noticed I’d gone!

I never ran away, but I used to lock myself in the bathroom with my favourite teddy and tell myself that I was going to live there and never come out. I'd lie in the (dry) bath and pretend the towel was a blanket for a bit, then eat some toothpaste (I figured that would sustain me) and stick my head under the tap to drink the water. Then I'd get bored and go back to my room.

Yes (briefly) went to London (an hour away on the train, felt like a long way at the time!) when I was about 13/14. Went and sat in a department store all day and thought about hiding in the loos overnight when they closed but in the end a nice lady saw I had been there all day and I seem to remember she gave me some money and told me to get my mum some flowers (we had had an argument hence why I ran away) so I went home...

This was me too, although I hung out in the woods along the way so I "disappeared" for about four hours. But the 40 minute walk was a trek (involving a lot of fear because I has no idea about the reception I would receive).
After being scolded for a while, I did actually get treated a bit better... until the next time

Yes me and my friend packed a bag when I was staying at hers and we ran away in the middle of the night. We were 7. We got as far as the playpark at the end of the road. Then we got frightened and went back but we had to knock on the door to get back in so we got an absolute bollocking.

When I was 16 I actually left home and never returned. But I said I was leaving I didn't just dissappear in the middle of the night.

Yes for 6 weeks when I was 15 and stayed with a man who was 21. My mum didn’t even attempt to find me 🤷‍♀️

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Yes, permenently 6 weeks after my 16th birthday to live with a boy I met on the internet who lived 150 miles away.

I did aged about 7, walked around the block and hung out outside someone’s garage then got fed up and went home. No one had even noticed.

I contemplated buying a plane ticket and going to Paris when I was 8, but I only had 58p, so I decided it was a lost cause.

Yeah once. I went round the block and nobody noticed I'd gone.

I "ran away" when I was 15 and returned when I was 22.

It's so sad reading some of these saying 'no one noticed I went' 😔

I didn't run away but wagged school a few times going back home and hiding for the hour that she came back from work before collecting my siblings from school.
I used to lie on the floor between my bed and the wall and hear her making a drink/ showering etc.

Years later I thanked God she didn't have a boyfriend to bring home and have sexual relations with 🤮 that would have taught me not to wag!!

Yes when I was 5 and my mum helped me pack. I ventured as far as I was allowed to go - the neighbour’s hedge - where I sat for a good half hour eating crisps (says my mum, I’m sure it was half a day and I almost starved) thinking nobody could see me. Apparently my legs were sticking out.

I once planned a whole running away to London saga when I was about ten to twelve. This included taking some bunny notepaper and an envelope and stamps to post a goodbye note from our village. I then went and hid in a bush most of the day until it got hard as I thought it would be easier to run away in darkness. Possibly more logical if I wasn't a small child planning a 40 minute training journey. As it got close to enacting my plan it got very wet and cold and dark and thankfully I bottled it. I went home expecting to be in trouble and no-one had noticed I'd gone and when I told them told me I was lying and they'd assumed I must have been in the downstairs bathroom. I get quite freaked out when I remember. God forbid I'd got on that train or made it to London I have no idea what would have happened. My parents were pretty crap but less crap than my little plan!

A friend of mine ran away on the way to school aged 7. He hid behind his auntie’s clothes line where she had sheets drying. She could see his little legs all day behind the sheets flapping. He came out in the afternoon to watch ‘Give Us A Clue’ with Michael Aspel when he heard the theme tune. 😍 She gave him a biscuit, let him watch some telly, and he went home. Small village life, 1980s!

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