Have you ever tried to run away from somewhere when you were a child?

djcityboy · 31/01/13 - 20:37

I once tried sneaking out beyond the backyard by trying to get through the bushes at the bottom of the garden when I was at a grandparent's friend's house.

wazzyboy · 31/01/13 - 20:39

Yes.

Home.

More than once.

Not for long though!

HaloJoe · 31/01/13 - 20:40

Yes all the time, i was a little sh*t.

potatolegs · 31/01/13 - 20:40

Yeah when I was 3, me and my friend decided to run away from the garden.
Just near our house are some fields and and a motorway and many busy roads. We walked through about 5 fields and ended up 3 miles away
My mum was frantic and had been looking for us all day and called the police
Have never been in so much trouble in my life. I don't know why I put my parents threw so much hell like that!

heart of glass · 31/01/13 - 20:42

I "ran away" from home a few times when I was a child. The first time I got as far as around the block and the second time my mum helped me pack and I walked around the block about five times. I considered myself rebellious.

Elanor · 31/01/13 - 20:50

I spent 6 months on a kibbutz in Israel with my dad when I was about 7 or 8 because he was working there. I had to go to school. It was fine, I didn't hate it or anything. But after lunch, everyone had to go for a sleep in little bedrooms. I flat out refused (I think I said that sleeping in the day was weird) and they used to let me play in the wendy house. After a few day I discovered that I could get out of the window and out into the garden without the teacher on duty noticing, so I escaped and went back to our little bungalow every afternoon. I thought I'd been clever, but years later my dad told me that the teachers had followed me, seen what I was doing, checked that I was ok, and told my dad, but let me get on with it. I just went back to the bungalow and read books. I think they thought I was the weird English girl who ran away from school every day, but came back next day as if nothing had happened. I don't remember ever trying to explain it, or anyone ever tackling me about it.

HaloJoe · 31/01/13 - 20:52

heart of glass wrote: »

I "ran away" from home a few times when I was a child. The first time I got as far as around the block and the second time my mum helped me pack and I walked around the block about five times. I considered myself rebellious.

Bet she was gutted when you came back

[Deleted User] · 31/01/13 - 20:53

Tried running away from home a few times. Always got caught. Thinking back, where would I have even gone? I was a dumb kid

[Deleted User] · 31/01/13 - 20:54

School. Or from home whenever there were green foodstuffs for dinner.

Takae · 31/01/13 - 20:57

A few times. From home, boarding school, relatives' houses and once a police station.

I wasn't unhappy. I just didn't want to be in a situation I was in.

heart of glass · 31/01/13 - 20:59

HaloJoe wrote: »

Bet she was gutted when you came back

Oh I bet.

She didn't show it though, she just asked me if I had a nice time lol.

djcityboy · 31/01/13 - 20:59

Takae wrote: »

A few times. From home, boarding school, relatives' houses and once a police station.

I wasn't unhappy. I just didn't want to be in a situation I was in.

Care to go in depth about your running away from a police station incident? :cool:

schead · 31/01/13 - 21:00

Well not quite a child, but when I was about 18 I had to run away from a pub after one of my mates decided to pick a fight with a bloke who just happened to have 3 car loads of mates just pull up.

potatolegs · 31/01/13 - 21:00

heart of glass wrote: »

I "ran away" from home a few times when I was a child. The first time I got as far as around the block and the second time my mum helped me pack and I walked around the block about five times. I considered myself rebellious.

Sorry but that made me LOL

I bet she would have been well guilty if you did properly ran away.

heart of glass · 31/01/13 - 21:10

potatolegs wrote: »

Sorry but that made me LOL
I bet she would have been well guilty if you did properly ran away.

I'm sure, but she knows me well and she knew that a few walks around the block was my limit.

scousesiren · 31/01/13 - 21:11

When I was about 8 years old, my parents were arguing so much that I ran out the front door down the road. I could hear them about 5 houses away. They were too engrossed in arguing about money they hadn't realised I'd done a runner. A kind lady stopped me in the street and took me home shaking and crying. Never heard them arguing again, but they divorced 1year later, thank God!!

potatolegs · 31/01/13 - 21:12

heart of glass wrote: »

I'm sure, but she knows me well and she knew that a few walks around the block was my limit.

Mums aye!

My mum could read me like a book too. If I had a massive argument I would scream and say 'I'm never coming back I hate you' before slamming the door, she would just say 'Okay then, I'll eat your dinner in the fridge'

My rumbling belly would bring me home.

Miss XYZ · 31/01/13 - 21:18

I 'ran away' from home when I was around 11 or 12 after an argument with my Mum. I went and sat in the local woods for a while then slowly made my way back home. I don't think my Mum had even noticed I was gone.

Takae · 31/01/13 - 21:26

djcityboy wrote: »

Care to go in depth about your running away from a police station incident? :cool:

Nothing special, I'm afraid. As an eight-year-old, I was travelling as an 'unaccompanied child' from England to Japan with a chaperone at each stage.

One chaperone, who was supposed to escort me from Haneda Airport to Ueno station where we would meet another chaperone, didn't turn up. The airport chaperone refused to let me leave the airport alone, so she called the police. The police took me to the station and told me to wait while they call my parents, etc.

After maybe three hours, I got bored/impatient with waiting and ran away from the station. I then caught a train to Ueno station, then changed for a train to Yamagata Prefecture. About seven hours by train up north. I caught serious hell for pulling that stunt.

afcbfan · 31/01/13 - 21:27

djcityboy wrote: »

I once tried sneaking out beyond the backyard by trying to get through the bushes at the bottom of the garden when I was at a grandparent's friend's house.

People in <insert name of country> have far easier egress from back gardens than we do in the UK.

djcityboy · 31/01/13 - 21:27

Takae wrote: »

Nothing special, I'm afraid. As an eight-year-old, I was travelling as an 'unaccompanied child' from England to Japan with a chaperone at each stage.

One chaperone, who was supposed to escort me from Haneda Airport to Ueno station where we would meet another chaperone, didn't turn up. The airport chaperone refused to let me leave the airport alone, so she called the police. The police took me to the station and told me to wait while they call my parents, etc.

After maybe three hours, I got bored/impatient with waiting and ran away from the station. I then caught the train to Ueno station, then changed for a train to Yamagata Prefecture. About seven hours by train up north. I caught serious hell for pulling that stunt.

That, I actually find to be rather interesting! :cool:

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