I routinely take my nearly four year old on a couple escalators every day on the way to and from daycare. He enjoys them, understands how they work, and he behaves himself well enough. I hold his hand, he doesn't wiggle too much, and everything normally goes just fine. He's a city kid, and this is one of the things that we do.Today it's raining out, so the subway is busier than usual, and we're taking the escalator up from the platform to go home. I apparently blinked and something happened.Then, my boy starts yelling, quickly moving to screaming. We were about half way up a relatively short run of steps, and I saw something wasn't right, so I picked him up. His right foot was completely bare - no sock, no shoe. I tried to snag the shoe out from between the steps and the wall of the escalator, but watched it get sucked down.I've never seen anything like it. His little Converse shoe just vanished like so much PlayDoh into a meat grinder.He has all his toes, no cuts, no bruises - just SUPER offended that he lost his sock and shoe. "I'm sad about my sock and shoe," was nearly all he could say for the next half hour as we waited to fill out an incident report with the transit staff."Today my shoe went away. And my sock."I think we'll be getting harder sole shoes from now on. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2pKEFi6
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