Last Friday, an elderly man did his granddaughter/granddaughter-in-law a solid by picking her son up from kindergarten while she was sick. Unfortunately, old age does a doozy on one's eyesight, and he took home the wrong child.
The unidentified man was attempting to pick up his great-grandson at a community school in Sterling, CT on Friday, putting one kindergartner, wearing a yellow hat and blue coat, in his car and driving off. But all five-year-olds have the same little sticky hands and faces, and this particular five-year-old, named Everett Stone, was not his to take.
When they arrived at Ol' Grandpa's house, the elderly man's wife discovered the young boy was not, in fact, her great-grandson. "The man pulls into his garage and my son refuses to get out of the car," Everett's father, Derek Stone, told the Post. "So the man goes into the house and gets his wife, who took my son’s hat off, and said ‘Hey you have the wrong kid,’ then they called the school."
The school told the man to drive Everett back, though they neglected to immediately notify Everett's parents, who noticed he didn't arrive home on the school bus with his siblings. "I was very angry, very upset, scared — all that,” Stone told the Daily News. “What was I most upset about was that the authorities weren't notified."
Everett has since returned home safe and sound, and the school says it will be tightening up dismissal procedures, which Stone described as " a disaster waiting to happen." No word, however, on what happened to the old man's real great-grandchild, or how Everett got into a car with a strange old person in the first place. STRANGER DANGER IS REAL.
