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A TikTok video of a 23-year-old mother of twins went viral after she shared that one of her children stole out of their home and went to a nearby McDonald’s while she was napping. Marissa Phiffer told TODAY.com that she was napping with her 3-year-old twins when one of them got up and ran outside.
“I was sleeping on the floor right next to their cribs,” she said, adding that she later noticed her son Aiden was nowhere to be found after she woke up. “He was not in the house. He was not in the basement. He was not in the front yard or the backyard.”
Phiffer said her son’s disappearance left her in a state of panic. She ultimately called 911 to report that her son was missing. “I really started to get nervous when he wasn’t in our neighbor’s yard. I thought that’s where I’d find him. They have a bunch of rocks and he likes to line them up and play with them,” she said.
The 23-year-old claimed the cops arrived in “two seconds” and showed her a photo of a youngster. She breathed a sigh of relief when she realized it was Aiden, who had been discovered in a McDonald’s not far from their Wisconsin home.
She stated that a Good Samaritan who noticed her son wandering alone notified authorities, and she ultimately drove to the restaurant with Aiden’s sister. “We run in, and he goes, ‘Hi, Mom!,’” she recalled.
Phiffer also told TODAY.com that she could not even get angry as she was relieved her son had been found safely. She also said Aiden told him he was hungry when she asked him why he went out. “I almost bought him a Happy Meal, but I was embarrassed,” she said. “I just wanted to get out of there.”
It also turns out that Aiden loves McDonald’s and is always happy when he goes there with his mother to get food. “Fries, nuggets and apple slices — he’d eat that every day,” the 3-year-old’s mother said. “But that was actually his first time going to the PlayLand there.”
To prevent an incident of such nature from happening again, Phiffer said she has since fixed child-proof safety locks and door latches.
@mamarissax2 YALL I GENUINELY HAVE NEVER FELT SO SICK & SCARED! we already had the basement door switched out so we can lock it at night but NOW i need something for the front door! You never think it can happen to you, till it does!! Yall know i got this house babyproofed as much as possible but OMGG#greenscreenvideo#autismawareness#fyp#aidenandaleiya#twins#escapeartist#scared#twinsoftiktok#omg#runaway
