It was half nine in the morning and the kindergarten had just closed its doors and there was a girl of about one, sitting in a pushchair in a corridor, unattended. The teacher wondered whose child it could be and supposed that the mother had left her there a moment to speak with another teacher.

However, minutes ticked by and no mother returned and besides, the child, obviously under the impression that there was a serious attention defect in the making, began to bawl.
The teacher who had discovered her went from classroom to classroom in search of the mother but to no avail. Nobody knew who the child was, nor where its parents were, so at around ten they phoned the police.

Two police officers turned up – a man and a woman, but after a round of questions, they were no closer to finding out who the bawling machine belonged to. Speculation was rife; a mother had deliberately abandoned her child there, knowing that it would be taken care of, but another hypothesis was that a parent had asked a friend to take the child to its kindergarten, but had dropped the child off at the wrong one, which turned out to be the case, more or less.
The police offers had the idea of taking a photo of the child and showing to the staff of other kindergartens to see if anybody recognised her. The teachers at one of them immediately recognised her and said that the father brought her each morning and it had surprised them, but not unduly, that he hadn’t that morning in particular.

The police returned to the playschool, armed with the child’s name and one of the teachers then said that she had a 2-year-old with the same surnames. The older sister confirmed that the baby was her little sister.

The grandmother cleared up the mystery. The father of the two girls, who is a doctor, drops off the older girl at the first playschool and then takes the younger child to the other playschool, where they recognised the photo. What had happened, as he was running late, he had dropped off the older girl, leaving the pushchair in the corridor whilst he took her to her class, but had shot out the building without the small child and in his rush, completely forgotten about her… It’s anybody’s guess how his wife reacted, but you can guess with reasonable certainty who wasn’t chosen to take the kids to playschool the next day.

(News: Granada city, Granada, Andalucia)