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Search For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New Functions

19 Oct, 2020
Search For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New FunctionsSearch For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New Functions

Ingenious!

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Lost in Our Tampines Hub and surrounded by unfamiliar faces with no means of communication, one primary school kid devised what seemed like the perfect plan for locating his mother — by keying “Mom” into the mall’s digital directory.

After all, Jewel Changi has a similar function for finding your car.

Unfortunately for the young Einstein, his search yielded no results, but according to an eyewitness, he found his mother anyway.

Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother

His big brain moment, shared onto Facebook by Power 98 on Wednesday (Oct 14), sparked a discussion online on the possible functions a directory could have.

Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother

Lost child uses mall directory to find mother. | Image source: Facebook / Power 98 Love Songs

Some netizens realised the kid was on to a potential solution for a recurring problem: how can lost children locate their parents without the use of a mobile device?

They suggested including a button called “Find my Mom/Dad”, or upgrading the digital directories to guide a child to the nearest information counter if they were to search for keywords such as “Mom” or “Dad”.

Search For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New Functions

Image source: Facebook screengrab

Others joked that the same function could be useful for helping them find other things too.

Search For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New Functions

Image source: Facebook screengrab

But if traditional methods — like borrowing a phone or waiting in a pre-agreed location — ain’t broke, there’s no real need to fix it, is there?

Search For Mom: Lost Child Uses Mall Directory To Find Mother, Netizens Suggest Possible New Functions

Image source: Facebook screengrab

This article was first published in AsiaOne and republished on theAsianparent with permission.

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