Oh I know it's an overly dramatic way to describe my morning, but hey, I'm the baby of the family and as such, I must do my duty and over-exaggerate things!
It was a bit nerve-wracking I suppose...
Last month, Katherine's little friend from school, Jasmine, asked if Katherine could attend a tennis camp sort of thing. I guess Jasmine goes every year and loves it, so she wanted a buddy to go along with her. Janet (Jasmine's mom) signed the two girls up - and paid for them by her credit card.
Last night after worship team practice, I was going to stop at the ATM in town to get cash. What should happen? About two or three fire-trucks were in front of the building! This is an apartment building which houses the bank. The last time I saw fire trucks there, it turned out to be someone forgetting that they were boiling eggs on the stove. I don't think it was anything major, because there wasn't billows of smoke pouring out the windows. Nor were there any elderly plummeting to their death trying to escape. Obviously, I couldn't just pull up and run in....so I just said, I'll run up in the morning before Jasmine arrived.
This morning rolled around and Katherine was up and dawdling as usual. I told the kids that I was just going to run uptown to the bank and get the money. This is normally a 3 minute task. All of the spaces in front of the bank block were taken, so I parked on a side-street....hit the ATM & got back to the car. When I got into the car, I tried starting it... it gave me this weak attempt at starting, then farted out on me! I tried again...nothing. I was doing everything except breaking into burlesque in the middle of the street! Dang...I should have tried it!
I called Katherine & told her what was happening - she was calm. I told her to hurry up and get dressed because Jasmine was planning to be at our house by 9:15 (It was 9:05)
I was really taking my life into my own hands, but I decided to do it anyway; I called my mother-in-law. Thankfully, she was home and was able to get me and give me a ride across town. I thought for sure that she was going to just give me the third degree, but she didn't say a word about the kids being by themselves. You know what? She may have not known. She may have assumed that Craig was home watching them.....
Well, what she doesn't know....
This afternoon we needed to drive to the post office & to my insurance office...because we had to drive right by it, I decided to stop real quick to see if the car would start...Did it? 'CHA! Figures right?!
I had a lot of errands (including grocery shopping) that I needed to do - but whatevs!! Life goes on.
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