Family’s Corn Maze ‘Fun’ Ends In 911 Rescue
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How do you find your way through a corn maze?
Call 911.
At least that was the approach taken by a Massachusetts family Tuesday after they lost their way amidst seven acres of nine-foot corn stalks and became scared.
Fearing for the safety of their 5-year-old and 3-week-old children, the couple, whose names were not released, used a cellphone to call 911 just after dusk on Tuesday night.
“We came in during the day time and we got completely lost and we have no idea where we are,” the caller told the 911 operator. “I’m really scared. It’s really dark and we’ve got a 3-week-old baby with us.”
The family was trying to find their way through the maze at Connors Farm in Danvers, Mass.
“We thought this could be fun. Instead it’s a nightmare,” the couple told 911.
Police quickly alerted farm management of the family’s situation, and sent a rescue team, K-9 unit and all, to the farm.
Courtesy CONNORSFARM.com
“They responded so fast,” Bob Connor, the farm’s owner, told “Good Morning America.” “It was unbelievable how fast they came up.”
The quick-thinking 911 dispatcher instructed the parents to yell out, “Hello K-9!” until they were finally escorted out to safety.
The entire search, and rescue, took all of about five minutes, according to Connor.
It turns out the family was just 25 feet from the exit when they were found by a police officer.
“They were in the heart of the maze,” Connor said of the family’s location. “Bridge, hanging out by bridge, right in the center of the horse.”
Connor said the family is the first this year to get stuck in the maze, which features maps and signs along the way to help people find their way.
The maze path has been a part of the Connor Farm for the past five years.
“We designed the maze for people to get lost but it’s all about family fun and it’s unfortunate that the family got stuck,” he said. “That’s not our goal. We want a positive experience for all.”
While the family, who declined an offer of free tickets from the farm’s management to give the maze another try, is probably hoping to erase the experience from their family scrapbook, Connors Farm is not.
“We are going to put a mark in the area where the family got lost,” Connor told “GMA.” “We’re going to say ‘This is the famous point where the family got lost.’”
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A sure fire way to get out of any maze is to hold your left hand against the wall and keep walking and never take your hand off the wall to the left. Eventually you will get out, maybe not the most direct route but it always works.
Posted by: david | October 12, 2011, 12:25 pm 12:25 pm
and LyClare what the hell do u know – how many times u been stuck in a maze to figure that out?
plus there aint no walls in a corn field
Posted by: the REAL god | October 12, 2011, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm
I’ve never done a corn maze, but my family did the maze at the Dole pineapple plantation in Hawaii a couple of years back, and that was amazing (no pun intended).
Posted by: lomita Momcat | October 12, 2011, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm
Brilliant let’s take our 5 year old and the freaking 3 week old baby into a 7 acre corn maze that should be fun for them. Nothing scary about dragging a newborn and a 5 yr old into 9ft hall maze of corn where we are too thick to figure out the way out with all the maps and the setting sun.
Posted by: Bill | October 12, 2011, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
Please turn in your Man Card!!! Now..
Posted by: Doc Nord | October 12, 2011, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
The left and righthand rule almost always work. It is possible to design a maze to foil this “rule”. However, I seriously doubt you will find a corn maze with this level of creativity. So, yes, David’s post almost always will work for you.
Posted by: Eric | October 12, 2011, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm
These people should be charged for the cost of “rescuing” them. How absolutely ridiculous. You can WALK ithrough corn stalks for God’s sake. And what about calling the maze owners instead of 911? I bet these people expect 911 operators to give them movie listings too!!!
Posted by: Shaking Head | October 12, 2011, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Not the sharpest tools in the shed, that’s for sure…
Posted by: Alan | October 12, 2011, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Agreed “shaking head.” In a corn maze, if you had to, you can just pick a direction, ignore the maze, and just hoof it through the corn. If I was the police, I’d consider charging them money for wasting everyone’s time.
Posted by: Hmmm | October 12, 2011, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
OK this shows a total lack of common sense. If you’re lost in the corn just follow the rows to the end then walk around the edge to you car. I say backcharge the idiot for the “Rescue call”
Posted by: JT | October 12, 2011, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
I dunno, they probably coulve walked through the corn maybe. The husband needs to turn in his man card now.
Posted by: giggity | October 12, 2011, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
Based on the fact they had to call 911 and that the maze “features maps and signs along the way to help people find their way”, these parents should immediately be prohibited from having any more children or being allowed to move free through society.
Posted by: chipper | October 12, 2011, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Honestly, I can see being scared with the setting sun and a three year old. HOWEVER, Man is always stronger than corn. The ‘Left Hand’ rule is the way to follow any maze out. Information lost I guess. The next person mentioned following the rows. Again, common sense if you know what a Farmer does, however in this day and age, people think produce comes from warehouses.
The last way is to walk straight through the corn until you bust your way out. Now I know this sounds dirty and messes up the maze. HOWEVER, you did call 911 for an EMERGENCY.
Posted by: kazlab67 | October 12, 2011, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
^ I meant 3 week old.
Posted by: kazlab67 | October 12, 2011, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
“HAAHAH When you believe in SCIENCE, you don’t have to get stuck in a corn maze to know how to get out”
Priceless! Yeah, go play in a 3 yr old’s maze book and try to get lost. Maybe drop pieces of diaper along the trail so you know when you have backtracked.
Posted by: kazlab67 | October 12, 2011, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
Seriously? Are you kidding? What a sissified world we have become. Having worked in several national parks I realize people will call 911 for anything, even when it’s nothing but THIS really takes the cake. It wasn’t an emergency. They should get cited.
Posted by: Jenn | October 12, 2011, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
A little preparation please. Always have a compass in unfamilar places, certainly in a maze. On a long hike, take water especially if you have children. In this case the compass would have saved them a lot of problems. Pick a direction and walk through the field. Not that complicated.
I also keep a first aid kit in my pickup, maps, a spare tire and extra cash, extra key in my billfold, small knife in my pocket and if possible a gun on my side. At least they were smart enough to have a cell phone.
The proprietor should keep a list of who is in them maze and when they went in. then check the list as they come out. The other day a pair of divers were left to hang on a marker buoy in shark infested waters because the people who ran the excursion boat thought they were on board. They evidently failed to check.
Incompetence seems rampant.
Posted by: cloud | October 12, 2011, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
An afterthought….these people reproduced? Yikes.
Posted by: Jenn | October 12, 2011, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm
Hello, 911? It’s getting dark and the temperatures are in the 50′s. I think I just stepped in some mud. Send a helicopter. We have a BABY!!!
Talk about stupid people. These are corn stalks, not brick walls. Pick a direction (any direction) and keep walking. You’ll be out of the corn field in no time. Or find some competent people to follow. Has it dawned on you yet that you’re the only people who weren’t capable of finding their way out?
Posted by: eric | October 12, 2011, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm
A little compassion, please. They have a 3-week old. I would guess lack of sleep contributed to this situation.
Posted by: Burnt | October 12, 2011, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
3 week old baby!!! Heck I was still hanging out at my house when my child was 3 weeks old. Why would you drag a newborn out to a corn maze? That mother must be very tough to hike through a corn maze 3 weeks post-partum. Either that or very stupid. You decide.
Posted by: Bonny | October 12, 2011, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm
WHY would you take a 3-week-old to a corn maze? That is ridiculous. Most corn mazes have a system for help if you can’t find your way out (a raised platform you can walk towards; flags you can hold up, etc.) They apparently didn’t listen to the instructions that are given before you start.
Posted by: wryview | October 12, 2011, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
Burnt – Compassion for two people who were stupid enough to take a 3 week old to a corn maze? Really?
Posted by: wryview | October 12, 2011, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
How do you spell STUPID?
Posted by: Kathy | October 12, 2011, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
The only time I’ve gone through a corn maze they gave my group a flag on a long pole to wave if we needed help. They had people stationed in deer hunting stands to watch for anyone needing help. Sounds like the people running this maze need to try that approach next year!
Posted by: Natasha | October 12, 2011, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Couldn’t the man in the house – and stuck in the maze – take charge of the situation and just plow a path through the maze? Not like it was a cement\brick etc type of maze.
Posted by: fudge | October 12, 2011, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
Seriously — IT’S MADE OF CORN! Corn grows in rows. You can walk out between the rows!! These idiots would have been out in about 3 minutes in any direction they walked in. Stupidity in its highest form.
Posted by: Una Clamcake | October 12, 2011, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
this is such hogwash. these mazes have watch towers. they have bridges. you have 6-8 foot tall poles with flags on them. folks know where you are at all times. you are not just left to wander around ‘on your own’. they could have simply called out for help, that they were ‘lost’ inside the maze. if they were where they were reported to be, then anyone could have found them. the maze people are familiarized with the layout.
Posted by: rancid meatworm | October 12, 2011, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
Bringing a 3 week old into a corn maze at dusk? Call child services and get that kid taken away now. These people are complete idiots and have no business raising kids. You need a license for a car, but not for a baby. Totally agree they should pay for the police call.
Posted by: Chris | October 12, 2011, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
While I’d agree the family is ignorant I see nothing evil about taking a 3 week old baby. They used to give birth in rice patties in Asia and go back to work.
Posted by: Secondlook | October 12, 2011, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
OK the left hand process I will give you, call the owners I will give you, but the plow through the corn, or follow the rows, not so much. Clearly you have never been in a corn field of this type of corn. While corn may be planted in rows, once it is fully grown those stalks are extremely tough, the plants grow so that they are all overlapped and interwoven so even following a specific row is very difficult. Plowing “striaght through” is nearly impossible because you cannot walk a straight line. In the case of this maze it is hard to tell from the photo provided but in real life large corn fileds like this, rows do not go straight through to the end of the field, the, last dozen or so rows are planted perpendicular to the rest of the field.
Posted by: Ell | October 12, 2011, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
They are from Mass…. All brain but not an ounce of common sense….
Posted by: uisignorant | October 12, 2011, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
They need to stay indoors. Forever. Let’s pray they NEVER go to Yosemite National Park. That’s a SAR waiting to happen
Posted by: Jenn | October 12, 2011, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
…can someone explain to me how it is such a big deal to take an infant into a harmless corn maze? Should the oldest child not be allotted any fun because he has a younger sibling? They were in a strange place after dark and they got scared…no reason for so much spite.
Posted by: Saith | October 12, 2011, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
Saith, they called 911 for a non emergency. They’re idiots. And I’d tell em so to their faces.
Posted by: Jenn | October 12, 2011, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
lololol ok ok SO WHY DIDN’T ” Daddy Moron” tell Mommy moron and the offsprings Moron( one of which is too young to be OUT let alone in a cornfield) to sit tight while “he WENT FOR HELP’( BWAHAHAHA sorry too funny) …. being it took the police less than 5 min to FIND THEM I assume it wouldn’t have taken Daddy Moron long to get out and get Wise Old Farmer or Other PAtron of the MAze ( not hindered by stupidity) to help him find his intelligence challenged wife and offspring????… Good GRAVY … they weren’t in the remote icy mountains trapped with the DONNER PARTY … they were in MASS on a WARM NIGHT with CELL PHONES on a POPULATED FARM.. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..
Posted by: mar | October 12, 2011, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm
And the rest of you people.. there is nothing wrong with having a child that young out in the big wide world if the parents are not so dumb as to be outwitted by a stalk of corn. There are plenty of parents who are more than capable of caring for a child that young in the great outdoors, because that is their natural element and they are competent in it… there is nothing wrong with taking a baby to a corn maze, as humans have been raising their offspring in and about the natural world for millennia… its just when it comes to a pair this helpless, well, refer to my previous comment.
Posted by: sigh | October 12, 2011, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm
PS for Jenn… most mothers know you DON’t take the infant into dangerous places (watch wild kingdom eh eh??? read DArwin eh eh??) so Mommy and infant sit and watch the scarecrows etc etc and DADDY and 5 year old go get lost in maze… simple…. for the rest see my comment above LOLOLOL
Posted by: mar | October 12, 2011, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Remember, this happened in Massachusetts where it is expected that the government save you from yourself.
Posted by: Terry | October 12, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Wow did not realize how many people were forced into seclusion after having a baby. All of you saying how awful it was to take the 3 wk old into the maze..Really? I agree the 911 call was not needed…but to call them a moron for bringing their baby. Most of you posters are the same people who raise your children in a plastic bubble…sadly they will grow into pansy adults, take a tour through a corn maze and end up calling 911
Posted by: berton1929 | October 12, 2011, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm
Watch the family take out a lawsuit against the farm, due to their mental pain and suffering.
Posted by: smukers | October 12, 2011, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
If you’re too stupid to get out of a corn maze without calling in the POLICE??? you shouldn’t be taking your kids anywhere … someone should be holding YOUR HAND to cross the street… and 3 weeks is WAY too early to expose your baby to all those other ( possible un vaccinated ) kids and people
Posted by: mar | October 12, 2011, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
Family, if you are reading this, you are what’s wrong with this country. Complete idiots, I feel bad for your kids. You shouldn’t reproduce. I hope they make you pay for the cost of finding two knuckle heads and their children.
Posted by: bri | October 12, 2011, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
These people should have been billed for wasting city resources. One of them should have stayed with the baby while the other walked straight through the maze (not like it was made of brick) for help and then brought help back with him or her. Welcome to the MA the land of liberals can’t find your way out call 911 and have the tax payers pay for it.
Posted by: Plato Junor | October 12, 2011, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Well folks this goes to show, “Common sense, aint so common.”
Posted by: Shei | October 12, 2011, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm
Berton1929, I wasn’t forced into seclusion after I had my child. I just simply didn’t FEEL like hiking through a corn maze 3 weeks post-partum. As another poster said, my child wasn’t vaccinated yet and didn’t want to take him out much to be exposed to everyone’s germs. Yes I do think they were idiots.
Posted by: Bonny | October 12, 2011, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
It’s only corn. Pick a star and walk towards it. How hard can it be??? And this is news?
Posted by: redone | October 12, 2011, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm
Thank you for not visiting again.
Posted by: MoneyDomme | October 12, 2011, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
Just how soft have some Americans become? You couldn’t just walk through the corn? 911??
It’s a good thing a thoughtful news editor didn’t release the names of the adults because they’d be the laughingstock of the country. Like another commenter said, “turn in your man card” – and never ask for it back…
Posted by: BJ21 | October 12, 2011, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
I’m guessing the mom started panicking. The 5 year old picked up the vibe and started panicking. And the vicious cycle starts. Eventually mom, 5 year old, and baby are all in a complete tizzy and screaming at the husband to call 911, the police, the national guard, and the army to rescue them.
I guess he realized there was no reasoning with these idiots and called 911 for them.
I don’t know how green that corn is right now. But consider that this family and the farm were lucky that these idiots didn’t burn down the field in a misguided attempt to get out, or signal their location. If they were smokers, it might have turned out very badly.
Posted by: Ronski | October 12, 2011, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm
Why didn’t they just yell for help? Someone would have heard them. They needed 911 to tell them to yell for help? Either there is more to this story, or these people are really dumb.
Posted by: Jim | October 12, 2011, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
Who takes a 3 wk old into a corn maze anyway??? DUH, not too smart!
Posted by: Wonderin | October 12, 2011, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Walk through the corn, its not a wall of solid rock! Too bad natural selection didn’t get ahold of them before they bred…..
Posted by: greg | October 12, 2011, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
While I agree with the people who say that this family certainly could have just parted the corn stalks and walked out of the maze, I want to raise one point: in some individuals, when you walk through corn stalks, the contact of the stalks with bare skin can trigger itching and a rash like you would not believe. This happened to me when i was a kid and we went to visit relatives in Nebraska who had a farm and were growing corn. That was more than 40 years ago, and I can still vividly remember itching like my skin was on fire. I don’t remember how we treated the condition, except that I had to go to the doctor and got a shot (probably steroid) and had to take meds, and had to have calamine lotion applied several times a day. Try googling “corn rash” if you want to learn more.
Posted by: lomita Momcat | October 12, 2011, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm
It tried but natural selection couldn’t win because we interfered with it’s attempts to fix the problem yet again.
Posted by: Andrew | October 12, 2011, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm
blah blah blah…complain about article…blah blah blah…complain about someones comment…blah blah blah…complain complain complain
Posted by: Jason | October 12, 2011, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
The maps and signs in the maze should have a number to call for those who can’t find their way out on their own.
Posted by: Greggw | October 12, 2011, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
My thoughts on this:
There is NOTHING WRONG w/ taking a 3 week old out of the house.
This was NOT a dangerous situation.
There is always a TIME that the last person is allowed in so they can be out BEFORE DARK.
There isn’t ALWAYS watchtowers and flags and telephones to call for help in corn mazes.
If you try the “Left Hand Rule” in this maze it will NOT work. You will end up going in circles. Try it. Looking at the map (use Ctrl-+ to make the screen bigger), start at the TOP of the bridge. You’ll start out immediately to the left. Then you’ll turn left (obviously) and make almost a complete turn back the other way. Then you’ll go UNDER the bridge. You’ll walk a bit, make a left, and travel the horse’s tail it looks like. At the end you’ll make another almost 360* turn. Continue walking and you’ll end up right back at the bridge where you started. So, in this maze, the left hand on the “wall” thing wouldn’t work.
On a side note there are actually TWO mazes here. If you go right when you get into the maze, there is no connection between the right and the left.
Posted by: FallenAnjel | October 12, 2011, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
These parents take a baby just days old there are they totally insane of what?
Posted by: Carol | October 12, 2011, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
FallenAnjel
“If you try the “Left Hand Rule” in this maze it will NOT work. You will end up going in circles. Try it. Looking at the map (use Ctrl-+ to make the screen bigger), start at the TOP of the bridge. You’ll start out immediately to the left. Then you’ll turn left (obviously) and make almost a complete turn back the other way. Then you’ll go UNDER the bridge. You’ll walk a bit, make a left, and travel the horse’s tail it looks like. At the end you’ll make another almost 360* turn. Continue walking and you’ll end up right back at the bridge where you started. So, in this maze, the left hand on the “wall” thing wouldn’t work.”
However, continue across the bridge still sticking to the left wall and you will now cross the bridge in the opposite direction and heading into the riders foot and on your way out…heh…left hand rule rules!
Posted by: kazlab67 | October 12, 2011, 8:32 pm 8:32 pm
Anyone call child services? These people are too stupid to have kids.
Posted by: Jackson | October 12, 2011, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
to the man who said there’s nothing wrong with taking an un vaccinated 3 week old newborn out of the house???? would you take your un vaccinated (as of yet DUE TO AGE) 3 week old to a place where:: corn rash/late season west nile mosquitoes , ticks, fleas etc etc , kids in the 5-12 age range running around from school after being exposed to chicken pox and strep etc etc, and adults with cold flu or any number of nasty virus carried on their persons , and of couse MUD and FERTILIZER ( read cow poop) will be copiously around and about??? if so please let us at DYFUS know when you plan on doing that so we can stop by to pick up your child.
Posted by: mar | October 12, 2011, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm
@ MAR and the others protesting taking a 3 week old out of the house. Kids are not that fragile, especially if mom was breastfeeding. My husband is a physician and I was taking our daughter to his medical office daily from the age of 2 days (yes, days). Aside from a hospital, there aren’t too many other places filled with such a volume of sick people and germs. I don’t see an issue in taking a 3 week old on a family outing to just about anywhere. What I do have a problem with is the unnecessary calling of 911 and taking resources away from those that may truly be in need of them. There were so many options available to these people, they just chose poorly how to handle their situation.
Posted by: Jam | October 13, 2011, 12:17 am 12:17 am
What is with the can’t take a 3 week old out paranoia? It was outdoors. The odds of getting some illness were minute here. Fresh air. Obviously that maze wasn’t highly populated or the idiots would not have phoned the police to get out.
Posted by: Secondlook | October 13, 2011, 1:58 am 1:58 am
Wait a minute the farmer is going to put up a sign to show where the family got lost. Anyone else think that the family are in cahoots with the farmer? He is getting plenty of publicity and I am sure he will get a lot more visitors over the coming weeks.
Posted by: Mike | October 13, 2011, 6:47 am 6:47 am
It’s corn………..walk through it……It’s not like it was a brick wall keeping you trapped inside. These people are 100% pathetic…..
Posted by: Matt | October 13, 2011, 8:19 am 8:19 am
My kids doctors recommended keeping infants away from the public until they were 6 weeks old and their immune system is up and running better.
I think Dad and 5 year old should have gotten together with friends for the maze and left Mom and baby at home. There are years ahead to do fun stuff together, new infants should be kept away from crowds and mosquitos.
Posted by: Lydia | October 13, 2011, 8:52 am 8:52 am
Knew someone would turn this into a conspiracy…right Mike?
Posted by: ekim | October 13, 2011, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
Reassuring to know that two people that freaking dumb are raising children.
Posted by: KGG | October 13, 2011, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
The stupidity here is the call to 911. You guys all seem to know the Connors 7 acre Corn Maze. Have you been through this one? Or just a piddly tiny one in your hometown? I really am interested to hear from folks who have waked this maze. Doesn’t take much to call the management unless they couldn’t remember the name of the farm or owner? Wouldn’t realize surprise me, given they called 911.
Posted by: Lee | October 13, 2011, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
FAIL! Worst parents EVAR! They should have their children put up for adoption, should be sterilized, and put to work in a factory or mill, performing mindless repetitive tasks while the rest of the people with actual brain cells go out and enjoy things like corn mazes. Why the heck did emergency people even waste their time with that while some REAL emergency is going on. The Idiocracy is on its way people!!!
Posted by: sg | October 13, 2011, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
The left-hand rule won’t work in all mazes. Look at the island under the word “Vill.” Put your left hand on that and walk counter-clockwise, and you could still be there next week.
Posted by: TychaBrahe | October 13, 2011, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
i think that was a dumn reason to call…yea u have a children w/u bt if yr husband is there he couldve just broke the branches (duh)
Posted by: ashala | October 13, 2011, 8:04 pm 8:04 pm
this made me laugh so hard …. I feel for them really but just after dusk is not pitch black, as others have pointed out you can walk THROUGH it (hello be the man?!), you have maps, 911? Seriously? Sounds like they need to put the 5 year old in SCOUTS ASAP ….
Posted by: Holly | October 14, 2011, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm
Somebody ! Call Darwin !!!! XD
Posted by: BOob | October 16, 2011, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
I hope they aren’t looking to ‘home skule’ their kidlings. Just sayin’…
Posted by: Greg C | October 20, 2011, 8:00 am 8:00 am
Why does everyone have to be *so* mean? What is gained by being mean? Does someone win a prize if s/he’s the meanest? Does it somehow make a person feel better about him/herself? I would have imagined it would have the opposite effect. The public nature of this target makes it so easy to hit, it seems like it would be degrading–even for a mean person–to take a shot.
Posted by: srsa | November 3, 2011, 1:35 pm 1:35 pm