I'm still not released to drive yet after my knee surgery, so today my college friend Kim D took me on my errands and appointments. Monday's are errand and appointment rich. They are beyond full. Last week when Linda and I finished we were both pooped out. I was hoping Kim would not be equally as tired today.
We finished the errands in record time, added a short trip to the UMHB bookstore (our alma mater). Since football season is about to start, I wanted to check out the new t-shirts and bumper stickers to see what was available prior to our opening game this Saturday.
We bought a few small items, but no t-shirts. The National Championship shirts and bumper stickers were not on display. Yet. I guess they are saving them for the opening game.
It's probably just as well, I have a National Championship t-shirt I bought after we won--but this time I didn't go crazy like I have after our previous wins.
Nope, this time I only bought one t-shirt. And because I wanted to wear it right away, and the game was won in the middle of the winter, I bought a long sleeve t-shirt.
It's now Summer/Fall/Hellfire Hot in central Texas and still in the 100s (okay, I am embellishing--I think we've had a cool front move in this week and it's only been in the high 90s).
So I'll be sweating this game--at least it's an evening game--the afternoon games won't start for a couple weeks. Boy howdy is the start of football season hot! Last year I started out in the shade under the Stadium overhang, and went up to claim my season seat only after halftime--before someone else thought it was a free seat. While I will miss the friends I made in the shade last year, I now have at least one good knee for the stairs leading to my seat. I will still be moving slow and chanting my reminder mantra "up with the good, down with the bad." (My fellow knee replacement recipients will understand.😉) But I will be viewing the game and cheering in my Crusaders from my seat. #GoCru!
Finally, after all my errands were ticked off todays list, Kim and I enjoyed a leisurely lunch at Freddy's before my torture. I mean PT appointment. PT went well and steady progress is being made.
But the BEST part of the day?
It was when I broke into a total strangers car!
Yep, on one of my earlier errands when I "ran" into the Post Office to grab my mail, my box only gave up three envelopes. I knew that was wrong.
I went to the counter to request the investigative assistance of the Postal Staff. They know me and just smiled--seems I missed the yellow slip saying I had an "overflow" box of mail as well.
Since I have not been to the mailbox since before my knee surgery, overflow mail is what I was expecting.
After retrieving my overflow mail I went to Kim's SUV and tried the hatch.
It started to go up, then closed and locked.
Opps. I must not have pressed hard enough on the button. So I tried it again.
Nothing this time. Nada. Humph.
I tapped on the back windshield to alert Kim to open it from inside. She was probably afraid to do so because I had scolded her for closing the hatch on me before I was out from under it at our previous stop. I had asked her to let me be in charge of the hatch. She reluctantly agreed. It's rough when you have two control freaks in the same vicinity.
Now, here I was, just one stop later requesting that she open the hatch. She must have been thinking, Will that crazy girl make up her mind?!
While I waited for Kim to open the hatch, I noticed the parking lot had a huge hole that I had not noticed earlier when I retrieved my walker from her cargo hold. I marveled at my ability to miss that fall trap--even as I acknowledged I was totally blind to it. I'm usually more attuned to fall hazards and my general surroundings.
Then the little lady I was behind in the line inside the Post Office hopped out of Kim's SUV. How sweet! Kim got to visit with one of her friends while I was inside. Kim must have been distracted. That's why it was taking her so long to open the hatch.
And Kim hopped out of her SUV.
That's when I started cracking up laughing.
Then, and only then, did I put it all together.
Kim's SUV was two parking spaces down!
Thankfully the little lady whose SUV I was breaking into was also laughing and not pointing her Smith & Wesson or Ruger at me.
Yep...You can dress me up, but you can't take me anywhere--especially if you park sort of next to a vehicle that looks sort of like yours!