a) I would not be driving a car with my child in it if I was so tired that I would forget I had a child. The fuck?

I hope you’re thankful for a lifestyle where you have that option. We should all strive to build a world where everyone does.

I’m sorry you went through that. I’m glad you got your trapper keeper, though. Your mom made the right call.

I felt the same, until I had my first lousy sleeper (child who had trouble sleeping due to minor health stuff). After a month of lost sleep, I couldn’t remember my own name sometimes. I read once that sleep deprivation is effectively brain damage, and after that experience, I believe it.

The left shoe trick - throwing my shoe in the car next to the kid - probably saved my kid’s life more than once.

One kind of parents who have these tragedies are tired ones. Which is most parents with small children.

Edit: not relevant in this case, but I’ll take any chance to advertise the shoe trick.

It still is, it’s a standard for imaging devices.

Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!

And also a nightmare.

Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren’t very nice…

It’s an acronym: T.W.A.I.N.

“Technology without an interesting name.”

And… That’s all I remember about it, at the moment.

Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.

Sorry. We need to learn to ask nicely.

Please upgrade to Linux?

sudo upgrade to Linux?

RunAs -Admin upgrade to Linux?