Jumping the Train
My 3 year old is a train fanatic. We were at a park when we saw a train for kids, the kind takes a ten minute ride around the perimeter. so he was jumping up and down with excitement. We got our tickets and got on. I recognized the woman in front of me as a former co-worker. We were chatting when the train started up. As it began to pass the little station, there were a bunch of kids waving and I saw my son with them (!) He wasn’t next to me anymore. And the train was picking up speed. I jumped out of the moving train and landed on my butt right in front of him. It wasn’t going that fast thankfully. About 10 miles per hour. But it still hurt. When I looked up at my son, he said, “Mommy, you’re missing the train!”
