March 20, 2007
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It was a joyful thing indeed to read the breaking news headline earlier today that alerted us to the safe deliverance of Michael Auberry (which is kind of funny, considering how "au" is the symbol for gold...private joke with a friend!), but it was a bit annoying to read the reason 25 search teams have spent days looking for him is because he got homesick and decided to hitchhike home.
Were that my kid, he would be SO grounded.
And were I North Carolina, his parents would be getting a bill in the mail for the cost of that search. It'd be one thing had he simply gotten lost, as tends to happen in the woods, but Michael just set out on his own without telling anyone or having a clue where he was going. His father talks about how he has complete trust in the Boy Scout troop with which his son had gone camping, and he'd be perfectly okay with Michael going camping with them again.
Dollars to donuts the troop leaders wouldn't be quite as enthusiastic at having him along.
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It certainly sounds like the sort of decision a child with ADHD would make...the Lord was certainly watching over him, just as He does with all his dumb little sheep like me! Yeah...that boy needs some serious discipline, if the discipline of being alone in the woods at night, hungry and thirsty wasn't enough. I'm not sure that, with the ADHD, he'd even really remember the lesson. They sound like patient parents though. Maybe Dad was acting while Mom was busy having a cow. That would be me.
Heehee.
I'm so glad the boy is safe.
Is anyone else catching the irony here of how these kids get lost in the woods and turn out to be...BOY SCOUTS!??
Hey, he's alive!
Yes, that did occur to me.
Oh, and that "he" is Tim, aka: Fortworthguy, not the Lost Boy.
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