lost keys and sleep.
so today, i finally got my car in to get new tires and an alignment. it's pretty bad. i should have gone in a bit earlier. like february. since i'm sort of a hands-free driver at times, it was starting to get dangerous. my knees are excellent steerers, but not nearly as good as my hands are, which should be something you all already know. but sometimes i get tired of holding the wheel with my fingers. especially since it shakes so bad from the super old tires. my car was so badly aligned that if my knees or hands weren't touching the wheel (say, in the middle of a switch), the whole car would veer directly for the ditch/curb/cars in the right lane faster than you can say holy toledo. what this meant was that my left arm muscles, which have traditionally been the weaker limb due to my right-handedness, found themselves on a slightly more even playing field with the right arm muscles.anyway, i went to pick up the car today and when he brought out my key, there were two keys in the envelope. in my head, i screwed up my forehead and wondered where on earth they had found my key.
see, on sunday, i went with joel and kathy to halle's recital. i met them at their house beforehand, then we caravanned to adam and susie's to drop maggie off, i parked my car and we rode together downtown. somewhere between shutting off my car in their driveway and leaving their house for my car, i lost my key. because we were in a hurry when we left, i just dug out my spare key and drove off. assuming i had just left it on the floor next to where i had set my purse, i swung by on my way home to get it. and i couldn't find it. i looked high and low. no sign of it. since i was really tired from the wedding i shot on saturday, i really just wanted to go home and lay down, so i left them a note asking them to keep an eye out for it and went home. i looked through all my stuff later on, thinking it maybe got put in with my computer or fell between the seats in the car. no such luck. the dumb thing was gone.
and so i was extremely curious as to where they had found it.
he says, the guys found this one in your trunk. in my trunk? you know, he says, in the trunk lock.
so for two days, i drove around with my key hanging out the back of my car. i so need sleep.
posted by julie @ 8:42 PM
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LOL! You crack me up.
I recently lost the oil cap to my wife's car. I noticed when I got home from the gas station that oil was spewing in the engine compartment.
I drove my car back to the station...no oil cap. I drove to an auto parts place to buy a new one. Then I drove back home to get my wallet. Then I drove back to the auto parts place. Then I drove back home again.
At home, I popped the hood and there, between the battery and the windshield wiper fluid, was the oil cap.
Early onset Alzheimer's. That's my story.
oh my word! that's fantastic! i'm so glad it's okay for me to laugh out loud at work!
These things happen. I am just glad I am alive to tell the story of how I left my car in gear and almost got run over by it.
Okay, yes, I left it in gear another time and jumped out of it at a stop light. That was the same year.
For anyone who is wondering--I have survived two full decades since this incidents...and as I write this I realize how grateful I should be.
Liz
My first year of teaching, I was a walking zombie and left my keys in the front door of my apartment all the time. My neighbor got used to knocking on the door to hand them to me. I've gotten better about that, but this weekend I locked Ryan (my new roommates) keys in his car. I guess he'll have to keep a spare set on hand now that I'm around...
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