Following up on my favorite animals post to let you know there’s more to the Baby Bear story. Here it is.
When I was about three years old, my mom took me to Mervyn’s. She was shopping, I started exploring and got lost. I was found by someone on staff who took me to the customer service area and asked me my name. I would only say “Baby Bear” so they had to go on the PA and say “Would Mama Bear please come to customer service, your Baby Bear is looking for you.” Apparently, everybody in the store thought this was incredibly endearing and the manager of the store thought it worth preserving as a series of newspaper ads that ran in the Napa Valley Register from February to April in 1977.
Okay, that last part is made up but everything up until the newspaper ad is true. My mom loved telling this story and would, for the rest of her life, address her cards to me with “Dear Baby Bear”.