O, hi (o)

Back from Ohio. We drove out for Alma's niece's christening. It's not that terrible a drive to the Cleveland area, about six hours each way. Not too much to say about it, I guess. It was a nice ceremony and I liked getting a little break from routine (too much routine being the main reason so little has appeared here recently). It's a strange feeling to take a trip like that, though - I feel like I've been gone for a week, in part because each travel day really feels like two days.

We did get one pretty good story out of this, though. There was a bunch of stuff in the car when we drove out on Friday because Alma's parents sent a number of things with us (as they were flying out the next day), and when I went to carry several of them inside, I accidentally left my keys on the seat... and then closed the door. It's hard to lock the keys in my car because you can't push the driver's door lock down when it's open, but I closed and locked it first, and then still had my keys in my hand when I went to get stuff out of the back. Ugh. Pretty sure that's the first time I ever locked my keys in the car; at least it certainly was the first time I locked them in the Civic.

The upshot is that I was this close to letting my AAA membership lapse a few weeks ago, and now I've used it twice in less than a month (first when a tire blew out on the highway, and then with the keys). But the best part of this story is coming. So I call AAA at 8:30 and they say they're going to send someone over. It gets to be close to 10:00 and suddenly my phone lets me know that a call has gone straight to voicemail. When I check it, it's the dispatcher saying that the truck is looking for me. Argh. I run downstairs and call them back, and the dispatcher asks if I see the truck. I don't, so he checks with the garage and then comes back to me.

Dispatcher: "Can you check and see if your door is unlocked?"
Me: [checking] "No, still locked."
Dispatcher: "Okay, let me check with the garage again."
[thirty seconds later]
Dispatcher: "Are you parked by the pool?"
Me: "No."
Dispatcher: "...okay, we'll have him come back by."

So... they unlocked someone else's car door and then just left? Awesome.