So there's a woman, and she's taken her family to a park on a beautiful summer afternoon, and she's got her little picnic area all set up, ready to call her kids over for some snacks, and maybe she's got a dog too, why not.
And a little boy comes up to her and hands her a Capri Sun and is all "can you help me I can't get to the juice."
And she's all, "Of course, sweetheart, but also who are you here with? Let's maybe make sure you haven't wandered off to talk to strangers, okay?"
And the boy points and, oh, yep, okay, that man seems to have gotten his foot caught in the monkey bars and is stuck upside down. (It is okay, there is another man climbing up to try and help him and also a teenager who's filming the whole thing, so.)
So she pops that little straw into the foil like the pro she is and she's all "Here you go. Why don't you sit here with me until your dad has his feet back on the ground, okay?"
And the boy plops down next to her and takes a long sip of juice an then says, "That's not my dad."
And she says, "Oh?" as her brain flips through uncle, step-dad, family friend, muuuuch older brother.
And the boy, who has had things explained to him many different times in many different ways, so never quite knows the right words he's supposed to use, says, "I'm never going to see my dad again."
And the woman, a little paler, a little higher pitched, says, "Oh?"
And the boy, who is making moves to help himself to some of the orange slices she just put out, says, "Yeah, Buck took me when our car got smashed up, so I live with him now."
And the woman, who has the vague concept in her mind of seeing an amber alert a few days ago that she did not actually read, slowly reaches for her phone as she says, "Oh???"
Meanwhile, at dispatch, Josh, cheeks aching with how hard he's trying to to laugh, calls out, "Hey, Maddie, you might want to jump onto this call...!"
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