March 24, 2009

(A call at 10:36pm last night to my friend's husband)

ALAINA: “OK, John, I need your help! You’re my go-to car guy.”

JOHN: “Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay….”

ALAINA: “You see, what happened was…well, I was In this car accident the day after Valentine’s Day and they’re taking forever to fix my car, so they finally said they’d pay for a rental car for me, so I’m in this rental car and I was just on my way home from play practice and as I was parking, that Byonce’ song came on that’s like “all the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh,” you know, and, of course I had to listen to it. So, after I parked, I just turned the car off a little so the radio would still play and I was rocking out and then after the song ended I went to take my key out, BUT IT’S STUCK!. It totally won’t come out! It’s LOCKED in there! And I tried turning the steering wheel, and I tried turning the car back on, but it won’t turn over. So, I tried to call the car rental place but it’s closed, I guess. And, I’m still sitting in the car, and the key is just STUCK and I don’t know what to do.”

JOHN: "Alaina…is the car in park?”

ALAINA: ”$%@#!.....Now I wish I hadn’t told you the Byonce part.”

Kind of reminds me of the time I was churning at work and came home one evening pretty tired. Not only did I forget to turn the car off when I was getting out of the car, but I forgot to put it in park. The car rolled forward and crushed my bicycle against the back wall of my parking garage. Yup, I had to go bike shopping a week later.

- Pat

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