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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Hungry_Pup on 2025-10-20 22:06:16+00:00.
This was a long time ago. I was in kindergarten, so I'm 5. This was a different time. Cell phones didn't exist. When class is over, the kids are on their own. There's no supervision.
School just let out and I'm outside waiting for my mom. It's gloomy out and looks like it'll rain any minute.
I guess my parents never had that conversation with me about stranger danger and not going with people I don't know. This lady walks by me and goes "Hey! I know your mom." I didn't recognize her, but she's like it's cold out, it might rain, you should wait at my house. Very insistent, so I end up going with her.
She didn't live far from the school. She dropped me off, gave me a snack and then went back out.
My mom had gotten to the school and was starting to panic because she couldn't find me, but then this lady showed up and took my mom to her house.
I was lucky because she actually knew my mom. I could have just let myself get kidnapped. It's weird though because it's been decades since then and I still have no idea who that lady was.
TL:DR: Followed a stranger to her house. Could have been kidnapped.