Childhood Memory - I'm lost!

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While chatting with @Srbageldog last night she mentioned a time in her childhood that she got lost, and that made me remember the only time I ever got lost as a kid.. so here it is: When I was around 5 years old my mom, Grandmother and I went to the mall, to look around the KB•Toys store. They both started looking at the front of the store, so I stayed at the door playing with the few toys they had on this fenced in table for kids to try out. After about 8 minutes, my mom told me to lets go, as they were wanting to check out the prices on the toys in the aisles. So down the back we went. I started playing with a toy.. and then looked up and I couldn't find them. I looked down every aisle, went to the front of the store, yelled "Mom, Grandma" over and over - but nothing. So I started crying, which apparently no one noticed, and then went to the service desk right outside the store and told the "cop" I lost my Mom, and Grandmother. So they radioed on the loud speaker of the whole mall, my moms name and my name and where to go to get me. And next thing I knew, my mom was standing right next to me! Asking me and the guy why they announced that I was lost and stuff, when I wasn't. Because as it turns out.. she was at the end aisle of where I was playing with the toy, watching me the whole time! I just never saw her . And when she saw me go up to the guy, she thought I was just asking him what he wanted for Christmas, as I was doing with all the workers in the store.. since it was sometime in October. . So.. I guess I was lost, but not really lost .. It was still very scary to me though, being 5 and all!! But now my mom and I laugh about it . -- Did you ever get lost, or think you did, as a kid?