Left Luggage

By luigi_pagano

Tue, 21 May 2019
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Left Luggage
 
The Hamburg taxi driver
thought that it was strange
when the passengers paid
then said, keep the change
for they hadn't left any tip
but a baby having a kip.
 
© Luigi Pagano
 

Grateful parents reunited with baby left in a taxi - News headline – 21/5/2019

Also published on Poetry24

 

Certificate U
Poem
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Humour

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Luigi,

this can easily happen, I know because I left a baby in the window sill of a fitness class I was teaching, she was so quiet and I was so eager to get home, luckily I remembered and went back to pick her up, she was still sleeping peacefully unaware...thank goodness.

I like how you give this poem the Luigi rhythm and rhyme, it works well.

Jenny. xx

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

The news made me smile and I thought I'd share the humour it inspired as an alternative to the depressing news we read daily. Glad you enjoyed those simple lines.
If memory serves me well, David Cameron did something similar when he left his child behind in a pub after having lunch.

Luigi xx

 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I had nearly 11 year gap between child 2 and 3, and I remember meeting my mother and daughter, and Mum saying, 'Where's the baby?' He was just a few yards away, but I'd left the shop without him, and another time one aisle as I went to another and for a few moments, was back in pre-new-baby mode. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

It looks as if it is a more common occurrence than I thought but it's not surprising. If the baby is asleep and very quiet and the mother is busy shopping it can easily happens, I suppose.

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Oh how I wish mine had ever been quiet enough for me to forget about them laugh

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Whenever they cried I took them to the park in a pram. The leaves of the trees had a soothing effect and they soon quietened.down. smiley

Cheers, Luigi x