Good Saturday Morning, Neighbors!
Whether I need to bawl and vent or laugh and sing out, I call you. Thanks–you fit my every mood. ~From the Every Day Thoughts “Friends” calendar for October 21.
How embarrassing… It wasn’t even my idea… sorry neighbors!
My story started at about 4 a.m. A coworker asked me what I think of our new used vehicle–a Subaru Outback. I told him I haven’t had a chance to drive it yet.
“What?” he said. “Why not?”
“I haven’t had time,” was my response.
So as I was driving home at 6:15 this morning, I thought, “Hmmmm… everyone’s sleeping, I’ll just take the Subaru out for a spin.”
You see, I’m a bit nervous about driving it. It’s a 5-speed manual transmission. I know how to drive a standard shift car, but it’s been several years. I really don’t want witnesses to me sputtering up the street.
Taking it out for a spin on at dawn on a Saturday morning would be perfect!
I got home, brought my lunch bag into the house and snuck back outside.
“Hee hee,” I thought. “Gerry will never know I took the car out for a drive. I’m so clever!”
The car was locked–something Gerry’s always done even when the car is sitting in our driveway.
I put my key in the lock and turned it.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Lights started flashing, the horn kept honking. I tried to lock and unlock the door again but still the alarm continued.
I ran back to the house (which of course I had locked behind me), forced my key into the door and ran into the kitchen to retrieve Gerry’s set of keys. Just as I plucked his ring of keys off the table the morning went silent.
“What happened?” Gerry asked from behind me.
Well, I wasn’t quite ready to laugh about this yet, so I grumbled a response about the spare key that he had made up for the car and how it apparently doesn’t disable the alarm. Then I sarcastically wished him and our neighbors a Happy Saturday morning.
UGH! I felt/feel so bad for setting off our car’s alarm. I didn’t even know it had one! Oops!
Oh well… it’s a beautiful Saturday morning here in Maine. They’ll appreciate getting an early start to their day. Right?
