Yesterday was my turn to drive to dance for Lucy's class. During the class, Esther, Isaac and I hung out in the car listening to music and reading. (Isaac gets a little to wild to go wait where all the other moms wait so I keep him contained in the car). Anyway, after dance class we get loaded into my van and it wouldn't start. Dead battery. I found a nice dance mom to help me jump the van and we followed the directions but couldn't seem to get it working. It was raining lightly the whole time we were making this attempt. I called a friend to come pick us up since we couldn't get it to work. In the mean time I called John who gave me a couple other tips to try to jump it. Yay! It finally started!!! (John later asked why I didn't call him in the first place--my answer--I thought we could handle it but I guess I was WAY off). We were all excited but then realized the nice mom who helped us now had her window stuck in the down position. It's still raining and we spend the next thirty minutes (along with my nice friend who came to pick me up) trying to get this window back up so she can drive around in the pouring rain without getting soaked. We finally got it closed except for a tiny sliver on one side. I felt so bad that he window was broken due to helping us. I was feeling pretty accomplished and also pretty cold, and pretty guilty that this nice mom's window was broken. A lot of "pretties". I was so grateful for nice friends and strangers who were willing to help even though it took a long time.
I got in the car and immediately Esther has a boat load to say.
"That took FOREVER!!!"
"My hands are like ICE!!!" (Let me add that she sat in the car the whole time and insisted on leaving the door open so she could see us working on the window. I was the one out in the rain and cold but apparently her hands got quite cold.)
"Why wouldn't the car start?"
"Why did it take so long?"
And lastly, my favorite, as we walked in the house she said, "That was the WORST day of my LIFE!!!"
Wow. I just laughed at that point and thought, "Sweety... this will definitely be a fond memory compared to some days you will have to go through in this journey of life."
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