... running shouting, "Hi, Dad! I've got some good news!" As I waved back, I said loudly, "What's the good news?" "Nobody slept with Mommy while you were away this time!" Alex shouted. The airport became very quiet, as ...

Response:

What a coincidence. This is actually one of my younger memories, but slightly different environment, from when I was about 7 years old. My mother slept days and worked nights as a nurse. She would come home early in the morning and get into bed with me or my brother as my father got out and went to work. Space in the bed was a bit limited, or we would not keep still, but she would only have one of us at a time, so we took it in turns.

One afternoon we were on the bus home from doing some shopping and it was my brother who asked in a fantastically loud voice "Who's sleeping with you tomorrow, mum?"

Perhaps kids don't change much.

BR H

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And another:

It always amazed me that every time one of those questions or statements was made it was always at the exact time everyone else stopped talking. That was why it always seemed so loud.