Hi All –
OK, I have to tell on myself. Yesterday, a friend and I went hiking at Rancho San Antonio
followed by a delicious lunch at Islands on Steven’s Creek Blvd. Islands serves a number of different hamburgers
and so my friend and I had a couple of those, onion rings, sweet potato fries
and a vanilla milkshake; all foods which receive top billing by the Acadamy of
Nutrition and Dietetics. Now don’t
give me that look, there was a maraschino cherry in the milkshake on top of the
whipped cream and that counts as a vegetable, right? Admit it, you would have had one too if you had been there!
So anyway, we finish our lunch and exit Islands, carrying
our leftovers, to get into my car which is a white Toyota Camry, still in deep
conversation. ( By this I mean
that my friend and I are in deep conversation, not the Toyota Camry.)
We come to the white Camry and I use the electronic key
thingie to unlock the driver’s door and the passenger door. I then open the driver’s door but
notice that my friend is still locked out. So I use the control on the inside of the driver’s door to
unlock the passenger side door. I get
in and she gets in. I then reach
around to put my leftovers on the back seat, put the key into the ignition and
try to start the car.
The key won’t turn.
I check to
ensure that I’m in park and have my foot on the brake. Still the key won’t turn. Also the seat feels funny somehow.
At this point, I realize that there is a brown jacket on the
dashboard which I don’t recognize.
How did that get there? I
look around to the back seat and there is stuff on it that isn’t mine. Finally the nickel drops and I realize
that we’re in the wrong car!
If there was a gold Olympic medal for exiting a car in the
shortest amount of time, we would have earned it. I was feeling mortified that I had been so unaware of my
surroundings as to not notice my mistake for so long. My friend also was thinking along the lines of “Didn’t we
park somewhere else? I don’t remember
this jacket being here.”
Now I wonder if the owner of that vehicle will somehow know
that somebody had been in their vehicle.
But in my defense, I HAD pushed the button to unlock the car and the
driver’s door WAS indeed unlocked!
Of course it wasn’t MY doing which unlocked it, the driver had merely
neglected to lock the door when exiting.
From now on, I’ll try to pay better attention to my
surroundings. I think that would
be a wise thing, don’t you?
Have a great week!
Kevin
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