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OMG, my dh has just narrowly avoided running our dt's over.

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Overrun · 31/07/2006 20:24

I feel so bad about this. I was in the kitchen serving up dinner waiting for dh to get home, and all three of them were playing in the hall.
I heard what I thought was the front door shutting, but I only just heard it if you know what I mean, I was serving up and thinking about other things.
TG I investigated. I couldn't see the dt's and said to my three year old, "did you open the front door", as I said this I ran to the door and opened it, and saw them running down the drive.
At the same moment, my dh drove up to the bottom of the drive.
Thank god, he doesn't park in the drive, thank god he wasn't a couple of seconds later (they were nearly at the end of the open drive), thank god I heard the door.
All this is cruelly ironic, as I posted only a couple of hours ago on one of those threads about leaving your children alone, about how you can't watch them all the time in the house.
Ds1 has no clue what he did, he said " dts wanted to play in the rain".

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waterfalls · 31/07/2006 20:27

Glad they are ok.

A similar thing happened with my dts a few months back, ds let opened the garden gate and let them out, they were on the other side of the main road when I found them and had caused a pile up of traffic.

Overrun · 31/07/2006 20:31

It's a nightmare isn't it? I think there is a certain amount of luck in surviving infancy! God I was terrified at the time though. I was screaming "stop stop" as I sprinted down the drive, with my heart in my mouth. Awful.

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waterfalls · 31/07/2006 20:33

I know, its an awful feeling you will be shook up for a few hours.

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