Well, I got a new car last weekend...or a new SUV. I simply LOVE my new car. I am so proud of it, but kinda the Nazi mom right now with my kids. To Tripp (my 9 year old) I say things like, "if you spill that slushie in my car, I will kill you" I say in all LOVE!
Well, tonight, after football practice, I am anxious to get the kids home...Tripp has to eat, shower, and be in bed in 30 minutes. Lily has to do the same...but since she is older, she does get to watch America's got talent before bed.....but EVERYONE HAS TO BE IN BED BY 8:45 CUZ MOMMA'S GOT A 9:00 CONFERENCE CALL..... Funny how their prayers go a little extra long on this night, and how they want me to scratch their backs a little extra long too...and give a little more hugs and kisses. Well so what if I am on the call a few minutes late...my kids come first.
Anyway, back to the story. So I am anxious to get home and begin to crank up the engine, turn the key in the ignition...and .....Nothing! The car won't start....CRAP! They gave me a bum battery! I am thinkin....I mean, I did buy a used car afterall. I get out of the car to go try to get some help from a coach and no sooner have I gotten about 10 feet away, I hear Lily screamin, "momma! momma!" I turn to find the car rolling backwards on a downward sloping hill and she is in the front seat.....I sprint to the door...and as I am scramblin to get to the emergency brake before the car hits the wire fence....she is clawing all over me to get out of the car! I mean, I feel like I am wrestling a bear! Now what I yell at her isn't very nice while I am slammin on the break...it starts with a dammit and ends with a Lily exclamation point! I know, it was wrong...she was devestated that I said that to her...and I was sad too...I just reacted....since she was clawing her way out of the car for her life while I am clawing my way into the car to put on the break! I had to apologize and ask for forgiveness on that one.
So the story doesn't end here.....Once we regain our composure, say our sorries and I forgives, I start up the car....Cuz....you see, I figured out that battery hadn't died at all.....The car had been in neutral when I tried to start it! So it wouldn't start....Not sure how that happened.
Well we get going, but when I put on the gas.....I aint goin nowhere. Well the ground was soft from the rain that day! I'll be darned...I was stuck! So, I got out to go get Tripp's coaches...all three of em....two of them are behind my vehicle to push it while the other is in my vehicle to put on the gas. Guess what? I wasn't stuck at all....We realized that the emergency brake was still on...and my car is so new, I don't even know how to release it!!!!! Boy did I feel like a dumb blonde.
Its a great story...and one I can easily laugh at...but as I was telling my "funny" story to a friend on the phone driving home, Lily emphatically exclaims, "it isn't funny!" My poor girl is still shaking from thinking she was gonna die from the car rolling backwards. I guess it is time for me to teach her how to put on the emergency break....I need to teach her to laugh more too I think.
Life is full of these bumps and hiccups....these mishaps. The quicker we can shake off and laugh at ourselves and the less serious we take ourselves, I think the more we will enjoy life altogether. Stop being so serious.....geeeez!
I hope you enjoyed hearing this story. If you are a good friend from the past or present...you will especially appreciate it and get a great visual picture of the entire thing going down....
Love and Peace,
Shelli
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