The little boy, maybe two and a half, toddled confidently after the man in the green ball cap, carrying a cooler and a couple collapsible chairs over his shoulder. The boy stopped to look both ways before entering the parking lot, hectic with vans driven by parents dropping their kids off at the pool on this scorcher of a day. The man never looked back, clearly unaware that his son was following him. Another man from the same reunion was following the boy.

When they came back, boy on his dad’s shoulders, they met a panicked aunt at the sidewalk.