All ended well....daughter turned the car around....arrived much later than she had planned...but...you know......
Remember when you were younger and things went sideways and it just added excitement to the outing?
I miss the carefreeness of my 20's. Had I been the one lost in the desert at 2:10 a.m. I would most certainly have been in tears thinking any moment something terrible would happen....a murderous truck driver like the one from the movie Dual with Dennis Weaver would stop on the dark empty desert road and nobody would ever know what happened.
That's the problem with aging...we've seen too many movies and paranoia takes over common sense.
And speaking of common sense I'm going to share with you the fact that today I was seriously lacking all forms of common sense....I'd like to say it was the heat
Today we went boating....
my job is to back the boat trailer into the water and then drive the truck and trailer to the parking area.
go into the trailer to get the dogs and bring them on the golf cart to the waiting boat and crew (who are baking and sweating)
so with this in mind I felt very rushed...grabbed the leashes, dogs eagerly jumped into their designated seats on the cart and off we go.....only we didn't go....we only rolled a few feet backwards.
Dead golf cart batteries....ugh....ugh...too hot for dealing with this....
with the dogs still sitting on the cart I pushed with all my might to move the golf cart back up off the asphalt and onto the concrete and off the road.
A lot of pushing, a bit of swearing..and the constant thought of those sitting waiting for me at the marina in the heat.
A good samaritan came to my rescue and pushed the cart forward.....the dogs greeted him with wagging tails expecting he would be joining us for a ride and were very happy with another addition to our pack.
Instead they were pulled from the dead buggy and forced to walk on hot shadeless asphalt down the road and hill to Man In Black who was standing at the end of the dock fulling expecting there was a problem or I would have arrived several minutes sooner.
After explaining my dilemma he said "we'll figure it out later" and into the boat everyone piled and off we went for the day.
Hours later....Man In Black dropped me off the boat closer to the trailer, said "go check the golf cart again".....I walked up the road, retrieved the keys off the kitchen table and went back to the cart...
this time...after I put the key in the ignition....I turned the key to the "on" position.
I had pushed and tugged on what I thought was a dead golf cart and walked poor Gina on asphalt because I didn't turn the key on.....I have no words...there are no words for how dumb that was.
So, if I had been lost in the desert in the middle of the night? I may have thought I SHOULD START WALKING...
There are reasons why I need a spouse....Man In Black knew...
that's why he told me to "go check the cart again"....
let's agree that it was the heat...that's what I'm going with...
...I'll see you tomorrow with a few snapshots of our day on the water.
3 comments:
so glad your daughter arrived safely.
If it's any comfort, I recently went to buy a non-existent part for my sewing machine. The nice lady told me that my machine model did not have such a part, but I insisted that it did and that I must have misplaced it because it wasn't there anymore and I can't use my machine. But of course you now the lady was right. I still can't believe that I had imagined that there was such a missing part. It seemed so real to me. I hope the lady doesn't remember me the next time I go back :)
No doubt about it... it was the heat :)
lol...can this blog get anymore entertaining?...I'm hooked....
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