My DH lol?

[angie r]

Yesterday morning on his way to work my dh called and asked if I had seen his ATM card. I hadn't, and we traced it back to seeing it last when he got money out the morning before. So he went to the bank and they had his card. He had apparently driven off while it was sticking out of the machine and beeping. The machine retracts them after so long. Good thing no one drove up behind him though!

THEN! At 4pm he calls and says he needs me to come downtown and unlock his car. He had left his keys in his car in the parking garage and his car was RUNNING!! It had been running since he got there at 9am. He must have gotten out locked it and walked away. Someone at the garage called him at his office at 3:30 to ask him if he knew his car was running.

Is this alzheimer's at 30??? I think I am in real trouble!

[KathyT]

My MIL would call those "senior moments" but at thirty maybe they should be called "junior moments"??? lol! Hope he has a better day today!

[RCT]

Oh Angie, how funny, I have heard of senior moments, but the leaving you car running just killed me.....don't be too hard on him....LOL...

[Diane]

LOL... it doesn't sound like he was having too good of a day. Too funny! I've never heard of "senior moments" before... I've been having quite a few of those myself lately but I've been calling them "brain farts". LOL I like the way senior moments sounds better so I think I'll use that one from now on. :) I sure hope he's having a better day today. LOL

[AnnW]

The ONLY time in my whole life that I ever locked my keys in the car, I left it running! LOL Not too bad, but I was taking out the wife of my dh's biggest client for a day of shopping! LOL

Poor guy...I call it mommy brain! LOL

[kat]

I've been having quite a few of those myself lately but I've been calling them "brain farts".

Oh how funny. I call it "sometimers".

[angie r]

Dh had a much better day. I kept thinking to call him and ask if he remembered to turn off his car. LOL Best I didn't I guess!!

[KarlaB]

ROFL! My bil always jokingly tells me when we have babies they take part of OUR brains, therefore accounting for us becoming more forgetful, etc. I am thinking if this is the case I should stop at two! ROFL! At least we have an "excuse" for memory loss, what's theirs? :)

kat - I like your term "sometimers"! :)

[Leigh]

His day sounds like mine not too long ago, but I didn't leave the car running. That made me crack up. Poor guy I am glad that it got better the next day.

[Ryleigh]

All this talk of locking keys in the car bring back a bad memory from about six years ago.
On the way to work one winter morning I had just buckled dd into her car seat and started up the car and was ready to back out when she yelled. "Wait Mommy, we forgot Sammy" (her teddy bear, that was a BIG security blanket at that time) I tried to explain that Sammy was in her backpack in the trunk of the car but that wouldn't please her so out I got to retrieve Sammy. I soon realized that I must have also hit the lock on the door on my hurry to get out and now my poor baby was locked inside the running car. I hated to leave her but had to get in the house to call dh. It took him almost a half hour to get home. I felt guilty for days. dd got over it quick enough. She had a great time when we finally got to the day-care, telling all my co-workers that her Mommy was a 'silly girl'.
I never close my car door now without checking the lock.

[Diane]

I remember a few years ago when one of my day care parents did this. She had kept the car running in the driveway while she ran in the house real quick to grab dd. She belted dd into her car seat when she suddenly remembered she had forgotten to tell me something, so ran back in. When she got back out she realized that she must have hit the lock button on the door, because it was locked and she couldn't get back in. We called the police, who came out right away because of the chld being locked in a running car, and they got it open within minutes. That night she went out and had a few extra keys made up... one for her purse and one for me to keep, just in case she locked her purse/key in the car. LOL I remember her (mommy) being frantic while dd just sat there smiling and waving at us. LOL She didn't seem to care. :)

[Edited by Diane P. on 03-17-2001 at 08:57 PM]