Upsetting Encounter
Not exactly working mom, but city mom.
So I was riding the train today with my tween kids. My son and I had some packages and we were lagging behind my daughter. She stepped on the train without noting how far behind we were and the doors closed as we were hustling on to the train. We were only one stop up from home, so I pointed the way home and did the closed fist “halt” sign.
She knows to get out at the next station if we get separated. She knows to stay in place if she feels comfortable, or to go to the fare gate and call me from the stationmaster phone (she has a phone but the station master can tell me their location) and wait with the station master.
Some lady at the on the train got out with her and tried to drag her onto a train headed back in the opposite direction to come meet me at the station where we got separated. I showed up as my daughter was telling a station employee that she wants to be taken to the stationmaster to call her mom.
I get there and this woman starts screaming at me. I’m a bad, neglectful, mom. My kid is ungrateful. I’m ungrateful. I’m a horrible bitch and my kids should be taken by predators. She left when the station employee called transit police. But then was waiting outside with her husband. I took the kids and ran to the car where my husband was waiting.
I’m going to call back and file an actual police report, then I’m having friends over for drinks. What the fuck are these people. My husband called off his trial prep session to stay home because we’re all so upset.