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At the ripe old age of 30, I’m still learning new things; to wit:
- My car will not start if I don’t have the transmission in park.
- It is embarrassing when the AAA guy makes this discovery after you’ve been sitting in a parking lot for 45 minutes.
- Parking in the Campus Drive lot is impossible at 11 a.m.
- Trying to wet erase a purple marker from a whiteboard is not a good idea if you want your hand to stay flesh-colored.
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3 comments:
Nice. Extra points for the public humiliation factor!
Maybe hearing about my Sunday will cheer you up: after church, Robin and the girls head to Charlotte for Robin’s sister’s birthday. I decide to take advantage of the sunlight to go paddling. However, I had taken the kayak rack off the car for the drive to the SPSA in Atlanta. So I have to get it back on the roof (not a minor feat). Then I lug the kayak around and get it strapped in…it took quite a while to do all of this.
I go in and struggle into the wetsuit I wear under my clothes when I paddle in the winter. There is no possible way to stuff a very large man into a wetsuit quickly. I pack up all my gear…let the dog out to do his business….then FINALLY load up in the car after I let the dog back in.
When I start the car, I realize I had forgotten my cell phone. I go back into the house to get it…less than 20 seconds after I had just walked out…and the dog had crapped all over the den floor. By the time I finished peeling myself out of the wetsuit, cleaning the carpets, etc. the sun was setting.
No paddling for me.
Thank God for scotch.
Re the “car won’t start unless in ‘park’”:
I learned early on in my career that RTFM applies to cars, too.
:-)
Well, in my defense, I might have figured it out except I didn’t realize the car wasn’t actually in park when I was trying to start it. My shifter is on the center console, so unless I look down next to the cup holder it’s not exactly obvious.