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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to an excerpt from Guthrie's 2024 book in childhood, they used to play a pretend kidnapping game, and the mother would play along. I do not know anyone who pretended to be kidnapped for pretend play, do you? That childhood story does not age well.

https://parade.com/news/savannah-guthrie-memoir-childhood-kidnappings-nancy-missing

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From the article:

[i]“About once a year, in the summertime, Cousin Teri orchestrated a ‘kidnapping’ of my sister and me,” Savannah wrote.

She then went on to explain how the situation would play out, adding “The cousins would visit for a few days at our house in Tucson, and then, on the morning they were to leave, Teri would wake us up early, shushing us in the predawn darkness as we made our escape. We would all pile into her rickety station wagon and head north.”

Savannah recalled calling her mother from a pay phone during one of the so called “kidnappings,” writing, “Mom! Cousin Teri kidnapped us to take us to her house!” She said her mother would pretend to be shocked before promising to drive up and get them a few days later.[/i][/quote]

Ok yes. This seems very odd, especially considering the current situation. But honestly, this was pretty typical Gen X behavior. We did weird stuff like that. I once lodged a knife in my armpit and put ketchup around it to scare my brother. I thought I was being funny. We would pretend to run away from home and spend the afternoon in the alley behind our house acting like we were on the lam and just hanging on by a thread. There was a popular, cute little family movie called Savannah Smiles (ironic) about a little girl who ran away and was held hostage by two convicts.

Idk, it was just a different time. [/quote]

I am Gen X and grew up in Tucson.  It was super common to “kidnap” someone for their birthday or other special occasion.  You showed up super early to their house, dragged them out of bed in their Jammies with bed head and took them to the Village Inn for waffles.  If you didn’t get kidnapped ever, it was super depressing because it meant your friends didn’t love you enough.  Or sometimes you’d go for a morning picnic in the wash — but village inn was more common.  And you’d steal the table topper (those plastic things that advertised the desserts) as a momento.[/quote]

Oh I LOVED the Savannah Smiles movie when I was little. And I think playing kidnapping is the same way kids play cops and robbers, or guns, or fighting enemies. It was a scary thing, but having it turn out okay, or exploring it through play, made us feel more in control.

We also did the kidnapping friends when we were older. I remember hearing about one friend in high school that got put in the trunk of a car. That horrified me (I think this was BEFORE the movie Jawbreaker came out), I did think that was taking it too far. I'm also pretty sure I remember being sent to a kids club on vacation with Kidnapping in the name. [/quote]

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