Health,  Marriage Confessions

Get Your Motor Runnin.

March 7, 2012 /

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I’m going on three weeks of this terrible sinus infection (with a side of double ear infections). It has just been slow going’s getting better. As soon as I’d start to feel better, someone in my family would start to get sick, too, and I’d get worse all over again. Finally, everyone was back to school and work today and everyone came home feeling better and happier than they had in weeks.

Except me. Naturally.

I still hurt here…

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…and here…

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…and here…

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…and here.

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So, I headed back to the doctor for the second time to see about different medications. I waited dutifully for TWO HOURS to be seen at the last minute, finally saw the doc, was told that I still had a sinus infection and two ear infections, got my three new prescriptions, and headed over in a haze of sinus pressure to the drug store to get my prescriptions filled. As I waited in the store for my order, I poked around the Easter candy aisle and picked out a few of Chris’s favorite candy goodies as a thank you for taking care of me these past few weeks. Then, I wandered over to the magazine aisle and read about beautiful people in beautiful clothes who were living happily without sinus pressure and headaches. (Jerks…) By the time my prescriptions were ready, I’d been at the store for about 20 minutes.

So, I get my medicine, check out, and head to my car. Only, as I’m walking out to my car, I couldn’t find my keys anywhere. I dug in my purse and my pockets, but couldn’t find them. As I got closer to the car, I put my bags down on the hood of my car and dug and dug and dug. But, no keys.

“Shoot!” I mumbled as I fumbled.

“Lose something?” asked a nice young guy as he walked by.

“My keys,” I said. “I must have left them inside.”

And he kind of laughed at me. Then he stopped laughing.

“You do know that your car is running, right?” he asked.

Sure enough, I’d apparently pulled into my parking spot, and just headed into the store without even turning my car off. And then I shopped around for 20 MINUTES while my empty, unlocked, running car sat out in the parking lot.

And now, I will go back to bed and hide until work tomorrow morning before I do something even dumber.

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29 Comments

  • Sarah@Crazy Love Gamble-Style

    March 7, 2012 at 9:41 pm Reply

    Sorry for laughing at your pain but that’s pretty damn funny!!

    Would it make you feel better if I told you that one time when I was running into the liquor store (of all places) I came out to find my car GONE!!! I had only been inside for 2 seconds, how could anyone steal it that fast??? I looked up and saw it across the street IN A BUSH!!! It had rolled away!!! Apparently I had not pulled the emergency brake and not put it in gear either.

    There. Do you feel better now?? lol

  • Catherine

    March 7, 2012 at 10:17 pm Reply

    True story: one evening before we had our daughter, my husband met a friend at a sports bar after work to watch a basketball game. He stayed for about an hour and when he got up to leave, he realized he couldn’t find his keys. He and his friend walked next door to the Dollar Store to buy wire hangers to break into his car. They walked to his car, an hour and a half later, to find that his car had been running the whole time. And he wasn’t even sick!

  • Jen @ Caved In

    March 7, 2012 at 10:54 pm Reply

    Oh Katie, I really hope you feel better soon (as I laugh at this post). Mike has pretty much the same thing and yesterday forgot to drop Sullivan off at daycare. Yup, he just drove to work and only remembered when the kid threw his lovey at him.

  • Lisa

    March 8, 2012 at 12:58 am Reply

    Thanks for the laugh at your expense…hope you have a good night’s sleep and feel much better tomorrow. I left my keys in my car’s ignition once when I was in a hurry to get inside a yarn shop. I felt quite silly but thankful that the car was still there!

  • Lydia

    March 8, 2012 at 6:37 am Reply

    I have done the same exact thing! lol Don’t feel bad. I did it when I was pregnant. Thank God you didn’t have more than an audience of one. I had all my students moving stuff from my classroom to the car and when we got there… it was turned on. My co-teacher, who was also helping, couldn’t stop laughing at me. They will never let me live that one down. hahaha!

  • Sandy

    March 8, 2012 at 8:04 am Reply

    my car has one of those push button starts (no key/only fob) and you lock it by pushing a button on the handle…which you can’t do if the car is running or if the fob is inside the car. me and my husband were christmas shopping and at the 638 stop, we got out of the car and i couldn’t get the door to lock. i tried and tried and we couldn’t figure out what was wrong. 5 minutes in we figured out that the car was still running! (and no, it isn’t a prius)

  • Susan R

    March 8, 2012 at 8:34 am Reply

    At least it was unlocked. In high school I left my car running with the door locked and did not realize it until lunch. I had to call my Mom to bring me my keys and went through a lot of gas since it had been running all day…. I wish I could say that I was sick. Feel better Katie!

  • Amy

    March 8, 2012 at 8:46 am Reply

    At least your car was unlocked! Thankfully, it was still sitting there when you got out of the store.

    One time, I jumped out of my car to get the mail once at my apartment, and out of habit locked the car door. While it was running. And didn’t realize it until I got back from the mailbox. My landlord was out of town, so I had to call my now husband who lived across town to come let me into my place with his spare key, so I could get my spare car keys to unlock my running car. I sat outside with my girlfriends who’d followed me home from dinner for a good 30-40 minutes before Josh came to the rescue!

    Hopefully this new round of meds will help clear up the yuck that’s still hanging around!

  • Emily

    March 8, 2012 at 8:50 am Reply

    I really don’t mean to laugh, but I did…out loud..for a solid minute. Not at you, but because I’ve done the same thing in a migraine-induced stupor. I hope the meds work this time!! 🙂

  • SarahPLiz

    March 8, 2012 at 12:10 pm Reply

    That’s ok. It happens to all of us. The other day I ran in the store while pumping gas, came out, and drove away with the spigot still in my gas tank. Then I had to go into the store, with tons of people in it, and tell the manager I had broken his pump. He just chuckled and told me not to feel bad. I was the second person to do it that day, and it was just 8am.

  • Courtney

    March 8, 2012 at 2:20 pm Reply

    I did the same kind of thing back in college…..I was rushing to go buy my books one semester because I had a boy coming over later that night. In my frenzy, I left my car on and running BUT ALSO LOCKED MY DOORS. I had to call Pop-A-Lock to rescue me (and my roommate). Good times.

  • Kristin

    March 8, 2012 at 5:04 pm Reply

    I’m sorry you’re not feeling well, but this post really made my day. At least you didn’t lock the doors when you got out. Also, maybe you should consider seeing and allergist. I wish I had seen one sooner than I did, has made all the difference in the world.

  • Nancy

    March 8, 2012 at 7:54 pm Reply

    Ha ha. Don’t feel bad! During EACH of my pregnancies, I not only left my car running but LOCKED THE DOOR as I got out of the car. Thankfully, finding good samaritans to help you is much easier when you are hugely pregnant…

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