It’s one of those things that I promised I’d have to write down. I’ve slowly been trying to get back into blogging so might as well, right?
For once, Henry woke up before I did and called me to let me know he was coming over. Ooooppssss, it was already almost 1PM and I was definitely still dazed. I had to finish up Nancy’s present, which kept me up until 3AM the night before (whoop-dee-doo for procrastination)! After Henry came over, I finally finished around 3ish.
There were a lot of little errands to run:
- Pick up something at Henry’s place
- Drop off Nancy’s present
- Drop off something at Ryan’s
- Pick up my present at the UPS before 5:30
- Go to the mall to pick up a few more small items
- Make it back in time for dinner at the So’s before 7:30
Everything was going well. I saved some time by writing Nancy’s card in the car, we picked up the thing we needed to pick up Hanry’s, and I called Nancy to find out that she wasn’t home yet. That’s fine, we’ll just go to Ry’s first, which we did.
This is definitely one of those times that being “too safe” and too “just-in-case” bit me in the ass. While Henry was on the phone with Ry outside of his house, he wasn’t home so Henry dropped something off in his mailbox, while I sat in the car that was still running, I just have a habit of locking the doors, okay? You just never know, right? And I even closed Henry’s window, “just in case.” Oh, I should put Nancy’s present in the trunk now if we’re going to the mall later. So, I manually unlocked just the passenger side door and stepped outta the car.
*click* The door half-closed.
…
shit.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhh babe? We can still open the door even though it’s half way open right?”
You see, Henry’s passenger side door doesn’t open from the outside. It only opens if someone opens from the inside. So here we were, standing outside of Ry’s house, Henry’s car running in the middle of the residential street (thank god we weren’t blocking the road too much), keys in the car running the engine, and all the doors locked except for the only door that isn’t open-able from the outside–which was half-way open, like a tease.
Of course, we tried tugging the door open. The trunk was open so we tried climbing through the back. No luck. Thank goodness Henry’s quick to act, calling AAA immediately. I woulda kept trying to get in somehow. And so we stood outside. Too bad Ry wasn’t home. We could have at least, you know… sat. Or something.
We had a good time talking and stuff (“You better remember this the next time you want to get mad at me! You better remember this!” -_____-; ) and Ry’s bro came back and kept us company while we waited an hour or so for AAA to get there.
Moral of the story: Roll down windows? Buy a wedge to get enough of your door open to get a long pipe/stick in there to press your unlock button, which you should also get? (Good thing there were blankets in the trunk! and water!)
Consequently, UPS closed before we could pick up the present Henry got for me (I have no one to blame but myself!), and when we stepped into the mall, we found out we only had 10 minutes left before the whole mall was shutting down. We made it back to his place for a deeeliiiicciouuuussss dinner with his parents, E-jeh, V-dawg, and AJ. Elaine is a BOMB-ass cook! Omigosh potatoes…
Irregardless of the locked door situation, I had a great time Christmas Eve! “You know that if the situation was reversed you would nooottt be happy right now.” So true. =XXX Thanks for being x10 patient with me all the time. I gots a long ways to go.
<3
