Today took my DS to a very popular theme park. It was absolutely heaving. We stopped to watch a ride and then a tiny boy, of no more than around 3 years, wonders up to us in absolute shock and worry calling out for is mum. He is in a state of absolute panic, saying I've lost my mum, I can hear my mum. I try to reassure him, thinking his mum will appear any second. Rather than walk off to look for his mum I decide it better to stand still as think he couldn't have gone far. About 5-10 minutes later a lady starts calling at me from behind the queueing fence, she asks me to pass the child to her as apparently his mum is waiting for him in the queue. You can imagine my alarm bells so I walk him as far as I can then pop him over the barrier as I see the lady talking to his mum and she gestures to her child to come to her. Obviously I'm so worried about the poor kid and it happens so quickly. I decided it best to walk around to the other end of the ride queue to check he's got back to his parent safely. I realised the mum was just literally still queueing for the ride and the child was so far away, there was no straight line of sight where he got to, it was literally on the other side of a building. And there was just still queuing for the ride! I am not normally a confrontational person but this incident shook me so much.
I got her attention and asked her if the kid was her son. I told her just how far away he had got and where I found him. I asked her to take greater care because it was just so busy. She just rolled her eyes and sniggered at me. I was so gob smacked.
So was I BU? Was I being a complete busy body or was I right to point out just how awfully far away he had wondered off. I know these things happen but her reaction was shocking. My own DS is 4 and I would've been having kittens.