ExM, Now I'm curious: what got them talking about Shawn Hornbeck?
No big deal, they just wanted me to let them wait in the car while I stopped at Walgreens. I said no and I told them that a certain missing children's web site says never ever leave a child unattended in a car, not even for a few minutes.
That got them talking about a little boy named Shawn who'd been abducted "right off his bike." At first I thought they were talking about something local. Then they told me they'd seen it on TV and eventually I realized they were talking about Shawn Hornbeck.
I told them as much of the real story as I thought they could handle at their ages. And about Sylvia Browne and how that story came out when he was found and how "our friend Robert" played a part in that (they remember you well from TAM last year).
As a side note, when we finally got to Walgreens, my youngest son was saying, "Why would anyone believe her after that?"
I said, "I don't know, kiddo. People make excuses like 'she's only human,' and 'everyone makes mistakes.' Maybe they don't realize that she has faked trances and done all that other stuff, too."
My older son said, "Yeah, but remember your other friend Randi and how he stopped that guy with the thing in his ear who was talking to his wife and faking that he even knew people's addresses! And people still believed him too!"
My "other friend Randi," too funny. They saw him give me a hug at TAM, I think.
Anyway, it's true. He's right. I didn't really have an explanation for that.
