They predicted snow, so I thought I’d be proactive and left earlier than the rush-hour commute.
Took 1-1/2 hours to drive home.
Took 5 minutes to answer a call from The Dude asking if I had inadvertently picked up his keys.
Took 30 seconds to stare at the unfamiliar ring of keys that were in my left pocket.
Took 2 seconds to say “Oh… shit.”
Took 2 hours to drive back to work.
Along the way, the check engine light came on and oil pressure dropped to 20psi.
Took 1-1/2 hours to drive home again.
I should have just stayed at work. I drove in show † snow for five hours today.
† My editor caught a boo-boo speling errer. Whupski.
You drove in “snow” not “show”….
Get it together, man!!!
hmmm is a show storm when a bunch of displaced/unemployed members of a Bob Fossey show congregate in one place to vent?
I would love to answer the question GuyS, but I don’t know who Bob Fossey is…
Condolences! But why did The Dude leave his keys laying around for someone else to pick up? You should have mailed them to him.
Well, I was in his office and when I came in to work today I sat down and started talking with another co-worker about a project we are on.
His keychain and mine look way too similar.
So when I got up I unthinkingly glanced and must’ve thought “Grab those, put in pocket” and not realized that I had his keys.
So, seeing as how he couldn’t get home w/o them, I felt kind of obligated to bring them in. Reviews are coming up otherwise I mightn’t have bothered.
(he reads this stuff, btw)
Not to add to your grief….but “errer” is supposed to be spelled “error”.
LK – go back to bed. This has not been your day!
As a matter of fact, this was someone elses day entirely – probably that jack-crevice that damned near hit me skidding on the gravel road down by the … um….other gravel road.
I purposely put “errer” and “speling” in there just to tweak Aggie’s nose ‘Goo.
The day is not yet over since I’m making up lost work-time here at home. Yah-hoo.
Well don’t I feel like an ass. But that’s OK – its a familiar feeling!
Well, I’m an assh*le, so if you take a quiz I’m pretty darned sure most people would prefer an ass to an assh*le.
How could you know that I was deliberately engaging in a little Aggie-nose-tweakery? Other than knowing me for years now, that is.
If it makes you feel better, I couldn’t go to work one day last week because I lost my car keys in my own house. Had to get the dealership to make another key for me (my back-up key was lost as well). And had to have the lock on my storage unit drilled. Thankfully, those were the only two keys on the ring.
Yup, that sucks, all right.
It doesn’t make me feel better, per se. But others’ pain causes me to smile.
(toldya all that I was an assh*le)
Wait – you LOST-LOST your keys in your house? As in “I never found them again”? Why have the storage unit drilled if not?
They’re still lost, 9 days later. I genuinely don’t know how that’s physically possible. My house may be a bit messy, but there just aren’t that many places for them to hide.
I let “speling” and “errer” slide because they aren’t real words.
“Show”, however, is a real word and thus would have confused the masses of LK lemmings that follow your every dictate.
That, and I know you were trying to tweak me again.
You’re welcome 😛
Does *nothing* escape your notice?
You have skewered my entertainment on the rapier of your critique.
(sigh)
Masses of LK lemmings? I must have blinked.
Just so you know, I do feel bad that you had to spend 5 hrs on the road.
BTW, I have something hot and red for you tomorrow.
Don’t feel bad. You didn’t pick up your keys, I did.
“Hot and red.”
I hope to hell you mean chilies.
If not, I’m outta there.
Hey just because it was YOUR fault, that doesn’t mean that I can’t feel bad about you having to drive all afternoon in shitty conditions.
Oh, it might be.