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When the kids and I got to the park today, there were no other people on the playground, but there was: an uneaten apple; a baby bottle full three-quarters full of thick, purplish-pink liquid; three stuffed animals, lying together on a platform at the end of a tunnel; one measuring cup that appeared to have been called into use as a shovel; one fuzzy blue lovey blanket; one fringed hair tie, placed on the lovey blanket; and one piece of sidewalk chalk.
So either a playground full of people was suddenly called up to heaven or abducted by aliens, or else a toddler brought a lot of things to the park and then melted down and was carried home, leaving all the belongings behind.
Or am I missing some other obvious explanation?
It was probably aliens. No human would put anything purple in a baby bottle, right?!
I walked out into our bedroom the other day to find K suddenly gone, the house mysteriously quiet, and for a moment thought, Did the rapture come? But no, just off in the kitchen. But I did wonder, as did you.
It is a mystery, though. If not the rapture or aliens, maybe just a mom with a purple-liquid drinking newborn. Because they’ll do some crazy things.
I wondered if maybe it was yogurt? But I didn’t want to pick up someone else’s bottle to check it out.
I hope it was yogurt or kefir. Otherwise that poor child. yuck.
Oh, kefir makes more sense than yogurt. More drinkable.
Maybe it’s the remains from some new sort of flash mob?