#90s vs. Today: Kids losing their mom in the store… #90skids #nostalgia

[doodle]

Having to go and have them announce that you are lost to the whole store was the best part…

[shauntelcampos]

You missed the part where you walk through the store looking down every single aisle hoping she’s not switching aisles at the same time as you.

[luvelylia]

My mom would legit finish shopping the entire time I was gone and THEN go to customer support and have them call my name

[ultraviolencexx]

I remember I lost my mom at the store. I called around for her, and still couldn’t find her. I popped my head into one aisle and once again called for her. Instead, this British man in his 40s called out, “Not your mummy!!”

Traumatized.

[MagicRatty]

This a 2000 thing too, I remember walking all over the store to find my mom then finding her standing and talking to some random woman for a hour

[itisworking]

The anxiety when mom asks you to wait in the checkout queue because she forgot a thing.

[radityanathanielnugroho]

Ah yes... The feeling of walking around the whole store woried the entire time while looking at the front, left, right, back on every corner to find your parents

[mdfranko]

I remember I searched for a whole ten minutes before having the brilliant idea to go to the front desk and finally reunite with my mum😅

[michelelarsen]

When you relate more to the 90s kids even when ur a Gen Z 🥲

[GrowingGhosty]

I started just yelling my moms name, because whenever I yelled "mom?!" I found every adult except my mom...

[maybeimurangel]

I lost my mom like 3x during my entire childhood lol. One time I just ran to a random employee and cried and hugged him like my life depended on it, but I couldn't say anything because I was crying so hard 😂 thankfully he figured out I was lost and helped me find my mom lol.

[annikkajohnson]

My mom would go up to the front and have them announce "Annikka Johnson, please come up to the front. I repeat, please come up to the front"
The worst part is is that I knew almost everyone in that town so they all knew it was me 😭😭😭
Talk about traumatizing

[doeeyes]

I'll never forget grabbing onto the back pocket of my dads jeans only to have him to turn around and be a total stranger. I was like 6 and still remember the shock and embarassment.

[moldymulder]

I had double cataracts as a kid. I was in the store with my mom, following her and kinda zoning out. Got to the register with her. Walked out with her. Started to get into the car with her when two things happened simultaneously. I realized that our car wasn't blue, and my "mom" began shrieking. She was NOT my mom, just the same height and build, and the same color hair. She brought me back inside where she found HER kid crying at the front desk asking for her mom, and MY mom at the front desk asking for her kid.

Anyway, I think I was one of the first leash kids.

[bffschillen]

Not from the 90s. But I still screamed my heart out and panicked. When though phones were around, I wouldn’t be able to have one because of age.

[WEDNESDAYY]

Me just walking through every aisle until I find her : 😭

[missdenisebee]

My partner wanders off like a child in stores, & will either leave his phone in the car, or have the ringer off. So I STILL get to wander around looking for him, like it’s 1992 all over again😭

[fredcamacho]

To add an extra layer of terror to this, in the 80s we were constantly exposed to news stories and even TV shows about parents abandoning their children in grocery stores. You turn around and mom's gone and you immediately think you're an orphan.

[the.randomest.weirdo]

The yell after “I’m lost!” Had me laughing hard for some reason

[slickperspective]

This made me go tears. So much bubbly love in the air back in the day, I was so much connected to my parents. So much and I still maintain them to this day, until my mom dies of cancer two years ago.
Keep your phones or any gadgets OFF from your children until they are matured enough to use it.