An experiment examined the possibilities that: (1) repeated deviations in a routine event become fused into the general event representation (GER) for that event; and (2) when deviations go unreported, it is because they have been forgotten. Preschool children were interviewed to get their script reports before and after repeated deviations in the lunch routine. During the second interview, they were asked questions about the changes. Although children's original scripts were not altered, they developed a new script that included the changes in the lunch routine. Children responded correctly to the positive change questions significantly more often than they were able to report change when asked for scripts. These results suggest that GERs are not easily altered, and when repeated deviations are not reported by preschoolers, it is not due to forgetting. Appended are five references and a table of quantitative data. (Author/GLR)