The Lost Doll

It was a lovely, cool, sunny, autumn Saturday here in Auckland, and it was nice to see the sun and blue skies again after a couple of days of rain.

I was walking home when I saw this, so I took a picture. I was thinking about it and asking myself questions. What is it? Why is it there? How did it get there? I’ll never know for sure, but I can guess. It’s a child’s doll. The doll is a girl with big eyes and long hair, it’s wearing a swimming costume, and it’s sitting on a fence.

Maybe someone threw it out of a car window and it just landed on the fence, but I don’t think so. Nobody’s that good of a shot!

A more believable reason is this. A parent was walking along. They were pushing their child in a pram. The child was playing with the doll and threw it out of the pram. The parent didn’t see this, walked on, and the doll was lying on the ground.

Later, someone was walking there and saw the doll. On the ground, it was hard to see, so the walker lifted it and put its legs into a hole in the fence. That way, it would be easier to see if the parent came back to try and find it. 

What a thoughtful, considerate thing to do!