{"id":6772,"date":"2016-07-27T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T08:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecornel.pro4.designworks.tw\/en\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2016-07-27T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T08:21:02","slug":"where-was-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/en\/where-was-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Was Dad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_third-6126cab7d8fab8d08143dd2dacdf673c av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-97e86708e2eb68678a19cbf107205bd5\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-97e86708e2eb68678a19cbf107205bd5 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-97e86708e2eb68678a19cbf107205bd5 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-97e86708e2eb68678a19cbf107205bd5 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-6723 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-6723 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCF8625-e1469598687473.jpg\" alt='' title='DSCF8625'  height=\"600\" width=\"800\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-0aa7055fe62c3622faec82866afbaeb2 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-25eb993ce8fbef011ba0b5b18a9c3081\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25eb993ce8fbef011ba0b5b18a9c3081{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25eb993ce8fbef011ba0b5b18a9c3081 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-25eb993ce8fbef011ba0b5b18a9c3081 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-25eb993ce8fbef011ba0b5b18a9c3081 av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Where Was Dad?<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Shyi-Dong and I invited some friends to our home for dinner. Just when dinner started, one of the guests looked very worried after he answered a phone call. Since it was his first time visiting our home, we felt uncomfortable asking him what bothered him. After dinner he finally told us that he had to leave immediately. All the friends tried to persuade him to stay for the party just started, but he muttered: My father is not home yet. I have to find him.<\/p>\n<p>All of a sudden, the air froze. Everyone looked at him puzzled. It turned out that my friend just took his father home from the airport the night before and his father had not come back since he went to have a hair cut in the morning. My friend never thought it could be a problem to leave his father alone for he was very independent before.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was that my friend\u2019s father moved back to China after he lost his wife but he couldn\u2019t wait to return to Taiwan after living there for a year. Coincidently, my friend moved his family to Taichung from Taipei a few months ago, so his high-rise apartment was like a hotel to his father. However, any hotel had a name but not the home. The father didn\u2019t even know where the new home was located, not to mention not knowing the address. To make things worse, the father didn\u2019t even have any chance to see the building because his son just drove him directly to the garage in the basement when they got home.<\/p>\n<p>What worried my friend most was the previous phone call he received that his father\u2019s mental condition had declined rapidly after he moved back to China. In fact, he got lost a few times, but was lucky enough to be found immediately because he lived in a small town. No one ever told my friend the problems.<\/p>\n<p>After my friend explained what happened, the other woman shared her story: Her friend\u2019s father went to the post office a few years ago, and he never came back. Literally, he just disappeared. Her friend was heart broken and felt guilty for not keeping an eye on her father.<\/p>\n<p>All the guests worried the same tragedy might occur to my friend, and anxiously offered suggestions such as driving around the neighborhood, checking all the hospitals\u2019 emergency rooms, and reporting the incident to the police. However, Taichung is a big city, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. My friend rushed out to look for his father. He didn\u2019t even want to think what might happen to his father when he had no money or cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>An hour passed, and good news came. Someone saw the old man repeatedly dialing a pay phone near his neighborhood, but he couldn\u2019t get the line through. Even though the old man was still nowhere to be found, at least my friend had an idea where he was about.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours passed, and my friend had circled around the neighborhood but still couldn\u2019t find his father. The next clue was that someone saw the old man walking into a school, but my friend couldn\u2019t find a soul there. The last piece of information was that someone saw the old man taking a taxi and disappearing into the pitchy dark streets. All of a sudden, the hope of finding the old man was gone. Who could guess where the taxi was headed?<\/p>\n<p>It was sad that the happy gathering ended with bad news. The guests left at midnight feeling heavy. They couldn\u2019t do anything except praying hard for miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the good news came the following day. The patrolmen spotted the old man wandering outside a McDonald\u2019s restaurant on the other side of the city and contacted our friend through a Carrefour card they found in the old man\u2019s pocket.<\/p>\n<p>After spending the whole day and night on the streets, the old man had no idea where he had been. It seemed that nothing ever happened; however, he pleaded to go back to his home in Taipei. What he didn\u2019t know was that there was no home in Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great relief for my friend to eventually find his father. However, it was quite a pity that the old man could have been easily found if someone had just helped him make a phone call when he got stuck. Even the taxi driver could have sent him to the police office instead of dropping him off in the middle of nowhere, or the McDonald\u2019s staff could have informed the police instead of kicking him out of the door.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has become an aging society. What happened to my friend might happen to many other families. It is easier said than done preventing the elderly from getting lost. However, these kinds of tragedies can be reduced if people are more willing to lend a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Bih-Hua Chen<br \/>\nOctober 23, 2010<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharing","category-founder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Was Dad? - \u5eb7\u4e43\u723e\/\u5eb7\u723e\u5609\u570b\u969b\u5b78\u6821<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecornel.com.tw\/en\/where-was-dad\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Was Dad? 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