A014 �@My Escape

     Ok.  So, ok.  Um so I�fm 40 years old but um when I was 2 and a half years old, um I escaped my parent�fs house early one morning.  And I�fm telling this story because my family still retells it.  I mean, you know about the time I got out of the house.  So I guess I�fll tell that.  It�fs not a famous story but I�fll tell it. 
     Um so I was 2 and a half years old and from my bedroom window I could see swing sets um in my neighbor�fs yard.  And I wanted to play on the swing sets.  So I I got out of the bed, I got up, I dressed myself, I picked out clothing, and put them on and the clothes were inside out, um and backwards, um but I um got dressed.  
     I left my bedroom.  I walked by my parent�fs bedroom and closed the door, so they wouldn�ft hear me leaving.  And I somehow got the door open.  I think I might have drugged the chair to the door to to get it open, and um I left, and tried to find my way to this neighbor�fs yard.  And um along, though, it was maybe probably six or seven in the morning.  And along the way a woman found me and um picked me up and asked me, um, �gIs this your house?�h  And I I shook my head and said, �gNo.�h  And she went to the next house, �gIs that your house?�h  �gNo,�h  �gIs this your house?�h  �gIs this your house?�h,   to four houses.  Um so she just thought this toddler wondering around the streets, and then um didn�ft know what to do.  But a police car happened along.  And so he pulled over and she loaded me into the police car and off I went to the police station.   
     And at two and a half I knew my name, I knew my address, I knew my phone number um but I refused to tell them and they tried to brave me with um candy and um gum and sweets and I still wouldn�ft talk.  
     And parents um realized that they woke up and realized I was gone.  I think my father was out and he came home and I was nowhere to be found.  My mother was still sleeping that�fs what it was.  So they called the police and they said we lost our daughter, Sharon.  Um and they said, �gWell, we have her.�h   
     So they came and got me.  And then when I got home I got a spanking.  And I said to them, I was crying, I said to them, �gI don�ft care if you spank me.  I had gum, candy and a good time,�h and am stormed off into my room.  
     And so my parents always retell that story because they say that my personality is still the same after all these years and they talk about how scared they were when I escaped and etc.  So that�fs my escape.