Keep thinking on it.
If alchohol is powerful enough to make you miss entire evenings of memory, then I'm sure it's possible for you yourself to have had a lapse of conciousness long enough for his disappearance to have occured.

Perhaps it was such a traumatic event, being abandoned, that you at the time were perfectly aware of watching him leave the building, but since then you have blacked out that memory and it's left you with it seeming he disappeared. Considering how traumatising the event was, as you've described, this seems possible.

The human brain is an odd thing. I'd be more inclined to believe that your father had a funny turn and blocked out the memory of it, and you were traumatised by watching your father leaving without you and blocked out that memory, leaving you both with lost time, than I am to believe that magic is at work or that time is messing up.
(Musuko, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 21:40, Reply)