Sunday, January 29, 2006
Love Seeing You!
A visit yesterday from Wes, Deb and Jazz. It was a catch up on things, do you need anything done, and bring the clown things home. The clowning things have been in Deb’s front room since December 6, 2005. She is getting tired of tripping over them. Sadly to say she will still be tripping because they left them home yesterday.
Jay called the visit a sanity check. You know --is the house in order, are we all in one piece, do we look like we are eating well, and are our brains still working? (Not to belittle the visit because I know they mean only the best and I do love seeing them.)
So of course I have to add to their concern by telling them a little story as follows:
Friday Jay and I were out shopping and on the way home we needed to stop at the grocery store. We decided on hot dogs and mac and cheese for lunch Saturday seeing the grandkids were coming too. It had been quite a long time away from home and when I parked at the grocery store Jay jumped out and said he’d be right back. I thought that maybe he had to use the rest room and that was why he hurried off. Not being familiar with this particular store I went in and found a stock person to ask for the locations of the items I needed. The mac & cheese was in aisle 4 and the hot dog buns in aisle 12 on the other side of the store. So first to 4 and then over to 12. When I arrived at aisle 12 I saw lots of bread. Bread--I don’t need bread! A slap to the forehead and a DUH! Hot dog buns dummy! I paid for my purchases and started out to the truck. I could see Jay standing, head down, leaning against the truck. Oh shit I had my keys in my pocket and his keys in my hand. He had started the truck at the last store while waiting for me and when I got out I naturally took the keys in the ignition with me.
I was greeted with “ Where have you been?”
I replied, “getting the buns and mac.& cheese”.
“ I got buns,” he said.
“ So did I”, I replied. “ I thought you were going to the rest room”..
We ended up with two packages of buns for lunch and two for the freezer.
(You should have seen the faces--that Oh my God look! Just kinda made me smile!)
Then to make the visit more interesting I had to tell them about a few days ago when the garbage can sitting on one side of the driveway. I had swung wide to miss it while turning in. I put the left front tire off the edge of the drive and the running board snagged the culvert. We worked together and got the truck back on the driveway but the running board was loose. (More wide eyed looks of concern so I couldn’t stop there.)
I then told them about driving up to Ramsey’s Body shop In Millington to have the running board reattached securely. I got out of the truck, stepped down on the ice and started to fall. So I grabbed the door arm rest to catch myself and accidentally locked the doors. Of course I had left the keys in the ignition so they could move the truck into the garage. I slammed thedoorrelieved that I hadn’t fallen and went inside. A few minutes later someone came in to ask for the keys to move my truck. I felt like a mental retard and looked to him like the biggest dits that had ever drew a breath.
I refuse to think what my children thought of me. But I did feel I had given them enough ammunition for more visits with shorter intervals. Sure do love seeing you guys!!!
