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Friday, August 14, 2009

Car Escapades!

Having difficulty with cars is not fun for the pocket book or for your inconvience, but especially when it involves vandalism and robbery! Yesterday we were going to watch our daughter's children so she and her hubby could go out to dinner and celebrate 10 wonderful years of marriage! Well, he never showed up at our house...finally she gets a phone call. She is to go the car repair shop! Someone had entered hubby's work parking lot and totally cut off and stole his catelitic converter (sp?) (this is the 2nd one now!!!) again off his vehicle! So to figure out how to borrow another car for hubby to get to work today (Friday) so his vehicle can be repaired. So daughter and I figured out this elaborate stragedy. See if you can follow this: Last night when daughter and hubby came back from dinner they picked up our garage opener and left me a key for their mini-van as I was at Roundtable with my car. This morning at 5:15 am daughter's hubby uses our garage opener to get my vehicle & key so he can get to work leaving mini-van here for me. At 7:20 am I then drive the mini-van back to daughter's house and together we take all 4 kids with us ... we drop of daughter and my granddaughter off at school. The other 3 kids go with me out to Rainbow Valley to pick up a most important package that was delivered yesterday. Back to daughter's house to play with 3 little ones until lunch time. We all load back up in mini-van and go get daughter. Daughter then drives me home where I will be the rest of the day. So...that is how we got daughter's husband to work and me to daughter's house to babysit so daughter could go to her child's class at school. If we would have lived a long time ago, no one would have gotten all of these things done!!! Modern times bring on the modern thinking of strategy. Now let's hope daugther's hubby's vehicle can be repaired by Monday. If not then...more strategy will be in play!

2 comments:

Sharron said...

LOL I know it isn't funny, but I can so identify with your day! Mariah and her family live 3 blocks away and sometimes it is sure handy for them and for us!

Sarah has been driving her dad's SUV until she can save up the money for a major repair on her car. One day it wouldn't start, the truck had a flat and the van's battery gave out. Jon never even got a chance to kiss his paycheck good-bye that week. It was gone before he got back into town ;-)

Good luck with all of your adventures!

Lauren said...

I see you have adopted a new way of writing....

I hope all goes well with the car swap and the car gets fixed!