Oh on! I forgot the kids!
Two german kids got the surprise of their lives when they found themselves alone at a petrol station on the motorway near Alessandria in the north of Italy yesterday. Their parents stopped for petrol at the petrol station,paid,and then set off again for a campsite on lake Maggiore. they thought that their children. Ben and Greta, were still asleep in the back of the camper van.
“when I woke up I was very thirsty ,so I decided to go and buy a coke when we stopped. Greta came with me. When we came out of the shop, the camper van wasn’t there any more” said Ben.
Twelve-year-old Ben tried to tell his story to the manager of the petrol station in a mixture of Italian and English, but the man didn’t understand, An English tourist. who spoke German, acted as interpreter for the children when the police arrived an hour later.
The police phoned ahead to the toll gate at Arona and the staff there stopped the parents. They were shocked to find that their children were no longer in the camper van.
“This was the most embarrassing experience I’ve ever had!” Edgar Grun, the children’s father, told our reporter late last night. Ben and Greta are sensible kids and they’ve never done anything like this before. But I am responsible for them, so l suppose it was really my fault. From now on, every time I stop I’m going to check that they’re in the camper van.”
The reunited family are now continuing their holiday on Lake Maggiore.