So I got my car back on Thursday evening. My sister pulls it into the driveway and presents me with a new key and new ignition switch. So I'm totally geeked. I hop in and grab the girlfriend to go do the grocery shopping for the camping weekend. I put the key in the ignition and turn the switch and waaalaaa my car runs! Yippe!!! Before I pull out I reach over to fasten my seat belt. (Safety first!) and my seat belt won't click... what's up with that? So I say to my sister, "My seat belt won't click." Her reply..."Shut up, you're kidding me" or something a little less family friendly. And I say... "No really... it won't click... what am I doing wrong?" And sure enough the seat belt won't click and she messes with it... and it won't click. So she tells me to cope and deal, she'll take it back to work on Monday. So I say... ok... and I'm off to grocery shop.
I pull into the first store parking lot and shut the car off. I go to pull the key out of the ignition and.... it's stuck. Kid you not, the stinking thing is stuck... yet again. So I fiddle with it for a minute, but I've learned my lesson so I don't push it, or force it. I leave it, and go shopping, come out and attempt to remove the key again... to no avail. So having learned my lesson I drive around all weekend with the key in the ignition, and lock my car with my little key fob.
I'm cool, I'm not sweating it. It's all good. I mean... baby steps... I filed for unemployment, I did the FIA thing, I did the school thing... so now... I just have to baby step my way through this minor rough patch. I mean a car issue is MINOR compared to loosing a job, a home, and getting a divorce, right? Riiiiight.
Anywho... I get the car down to the shop on Monday evening, only to pull in and have the tech guy come take a look. He sits in the car and says "Hey... where's the key?"
Yup... it was in my hand. I drove all that way to have them look at the key that was stuck in the ignition only to drive there and pull it out without thinking when I stopped the car in the garage. I looked like a damn fool... and I felt like one too. lol
Oh well... at least they got the seat belt fixed. Now I'll be safe when I drive into a ditch in my feeble attempt to end my suffering.
With my luck it would be a ditch that had airbags.
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lololololol someone as crazy as me!!!!! couldn't start the car at the bank one day, so I called my brother-in-law to give me a jump. he got there, but it wouldn't work. I got in the car to keep trying to ignition, happened to look down, and the car was in DRIVE. I had taken the key out and left it in drive. I hurried up and threw it in PARK and told him the jump worked (hey, it was 20 degrees outside...he would have killed me). lololololol
NICE COVER! lol
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