My mother-in-law is out of town and she left us with her car. This had been nice because we have been a one car and one bike family since The Mister decided to sell his truck months before deployment and has been riding his bike to work every day.
The car has this little quirk where the driver's door doesn't lock/unlock with the electric locks or the key fab. My guess is the actuator, but what do I know? Anyway, you basically have to unlock the doors from the passenger side and climb over to the driver's side to lock the driver's door and visa versa for locking it. Only, if you press the driver's door lock down manually, all of the other doors lock in the car.
Wednesday morning, The Mister left out of here to drive to Louisiana to pick up our oldest daughter, Sandra. Naturally, he took our car. It's a lot of miles from North Florida to almost New Orleans, we know that our car is dependable, and then there's the whole thing about insurance or whatever.
The Sophster and I needed to make a quick run to Target, so we got dressed and jumped in Oma's car. When we got to Target, I went through my usual run down for what we needed to take into the store with us. Into my purse went keys, phone, water bottle. Then, I opened the door and thought "Hmm...I wonder if this door will lock from the door switch?" I flipped the switch up and down a couple of times. Nothing. "Oh well", I thought, and shoved the lock down. Jumped out of the car, closed the door....and immediately realized that I had locked all of the doors...with The Sophster inside the car.
So I locked my kid in the car, in a parking lot. I mean, who cares about the parking lot, really?! I LOCKED MY KID IN THE CAR!
I immediately started shaking like a leaf. What was I going to do??? My purse, phone, keys, and CHILD were locked in this car!!
Thankfully, there was a nice gentleman across the parking lane from me and I very nervously asked for help. He was very gracious and called the Sheriff's office for me and they were out within just a couple of minutes.
He asked if there was another key and I had no good answer...."No sir, there's not. This is my mother-in-law's car, she's out of town. My husband has our one car and is on his way to Louisiana to pick up my step daughter"
....I felt like puking.
I stood by Sophi's window making funny faces at her, praying she wouldn't start wigging out. She did fine right until probably the last few seconds she was in there. The officers were able to get into the car quickly and we got her out. She was a little freaked out by all the policemen standing around and you know, from being locked in the car, so she wouldn't speak to the officers that just rescued her, but she did manage to give them each a high five and they gave her a Sheriff's Office bracelet for being so tough!
Also, that very same night, as The Mister was on his way home, our kitchen sink backed up. The garbage disposal was clogged and I had a sink full of dishes to wash. So, there they sat until the next morning when The Mister could fix it....and give me lessons on how to fix it, in case it happened again in the next 8 months.
These are the things that are supposed to happen during deployment! Maybe they are just getting themselves out of the way before he leaves? Oh that would be wonderful! I hope it's not a sign that the worst is yet to come.
Stupid Deployment. We really can never be friends.
Have you ever locked your kid{s} in the car? What are some things that you have checked off of the "hope that never happens" list? How did you handle it? If you are a military family, what have been some of your toughest deployment/pre-deployment challenges to tackle?
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