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WORTH EVERY PENNY
If you haven’t heard this story then pull up a square and take listen (read whatever)…
On Monday evening in between returning from the zoo and dropping off our Mazda at the mechanics (getting it ready to sell) I toiled at finishing an amazing yoga sequence for my FIRST yoga class Tuesday morning. Come Tuesday morning I was ready to go a whole 35 mins before go time. So I wandered about the house, washed some dishes and played with Pierson (now 8 months old). Finally it was time to head down to the park for a nice relaxing yoga session, right! WRONG!! I couldn’t find my keys to the Toyota (new car), ALL my yoga stuff was packed in there, along with Pierson’s stroller, toys, etc…CRAP, panic creeps near, I called Jason (husband) asked if he’d seen my keys. We retraced my steps NOTHING! Mind you I’ve NEVER lost my keys before!! Lost my keys!! So I called Sara, she was coming to the class so I’d hoped she could give me a ride, VOICEMAIL!! Dang! Pacing, pacing, Sara called back, she’s on her way. PHEW!! Yoga was great aside from the time I took to center and calm myself. Wow what a crazy morning, at least I remembered to grab my cell phone charger as we ran down to meet Sara…
OH WAIT I’M NOT DONE!! I’d planned to get together with some moms on the Lippert Farm for lunch, so being resourceful I had Sara drop me off at the mechanics to pick up the Mazda. YEAH I have a car for the day. I raced home showered, dashed to Von’s grabbed a few salads and cruised over to the Lippert Farm for a nice relaxing lunch. I had a great time aside from my cell phone dieing in the middle of an important phone call with my husband, phone charger was broken so I borrowed Tracy’s cell. GEEZ this day couldn’t get any worse, these were my last words to my husband from Tracy’s cell phone.
So I’m getting ready to leave Tracy’s some of the kids were helping Pierson and I into the car, I noticed the car keys in the basket of our spare stroller as I lifted it into the trunk. I left the trunk open as I went to help on of the girls with Pierson’s car seat. As I finished and closed his door someone closed the trunk. I FELT MY BLOOD LEAVE MY BODY AS I REALIZED MY BABY WAS LOCKED IN A HOT CAR!!
I had Tracy call AAA; her farm is in the middle of NO WHERE! After 10mins in the car smiling at the girls through the window Pierson was beginning to cry. AAA was having issues finding the farm, I had Tracy call the fire dept. hoping they could get there sooner. The Fire Dept couldn’t even find her street on their grid, CRAZY!! I asked Tracy’s son to find me a hammer to break my car window. He was back in a flash, it had been 20 mins, and Pierson was crying and covered with sweat. I hit the back window hoping the tint would keep the glass from flying, the window didn’t budge. I freaked I couldn’t even break a window…I tried again this time on the front driver side window…CRASH! THE GLASS WENT EVERYWHERE! I dove into the car; Pierson was purplish red and whining. Everyone ran into the house, wet towels, water and bits of apple for the little guy. The paramedics showed up it was quite a scene. Pierson was red faced for an hour but fine, I was exhausted and a wreck!!
Breaking the window cost me $165, worth every penny!!
Posted by linuxgrl 
September 2007
5 Responses to “WORTH EVERY PENNY”
JaredB Says:
September 3rd, 2007at
10:29 am
Wow, that is crazy!
glad you had the mental wherewithal to break a window. inexcusable that the fire department didn’t know where a house in their district is.
fyi: always break the side window. front and rear have a sheet of plastic in them so they just crack, but don’t break. unfortunately, if you smash them good enough, the glass on the inside will shatter and spray everywhere. side windows are made to shatter completely into non-sharp bits for rescue purposes.
further FYI; don’t break the little side window (triangle shaped) this one costs double cause it’s a bitch to install. Luckily I knew the side windows were tempered (says it right on the window) I was worried about my $500 deductible through my car insurance. I was VERY relieved to find it affordable to fix without help from insurance.
um…so I’ve locked the boy in the car 2 times. Once at the dmv…in the summer…but there was aaa guy driving by…and i screamed for help…and 10 mins later…he was out. i was hysterical…he was like 4 months old.
the second….pouring rain…late for family thing…locked him in the car at parking lot…but he was asleep….it took 20 mins for AAA to responded…due to rain. but i was then soaked…because my umbrella was in there too!
aaa told me one time during all this…that if you call saying your kid is locked in…every drive is alerted and someone must respond in like 10 mins or the police/fire is called to break the window….
Tracy was a champ; she was pushing the AAA dispatch pretty hard. AAA knew there was a baby in the car but alas living in the middle of nowhere has it’s draw backs, like SLOW ER response!!
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