I was at a Young Women event the other night. One of the girls had just asked me for a ride home (since her cool family just lives across the street from us). I told her sure - but, she'd have to put up with Layne's truck (for the whole 1/2 mile). She had no worries about that...so, we finished a conversation and headed out. I did the usual - went to grab my keys from the place I attach them to my purse. (I'm almost compulsive about this - I don't leave the house without feeling for my keys, looking at them and knowing that I have them in my hand. It's a similar routine when turning off the engine and getting out of the vehicle.) I checked again in the place I had been sitting. Nope - the keys were not in the home we were meeting in - nor were they anywhere to be found in my purse. It finally occurred to me to check in the ignition of the truck. The thought took awhile in coming because - well, I'm just not one to lose my keys...and certainly not one to LOCK them in the car! Sure enough - there were my keys - locked inside a vehicle - in the ignition and ready to go...if only someone could actually reach them so they could be used appropriately. I went in the house and called Layne (good thing we finally got a cell phone). His first reaction was laughter. I think mostly due to the fact that I had brought him my key a few days earlier in order to unlock the truck so he could extract his keys from the the ignition. (I believe that's a first too.) What are the odds that two different people would lock their keys in a truck (within the same week) that probably wouldn't get stolen even if someone did notice the keys in the ignition and the doors were unlocked. (Yep...it's that old!)
Anyway...the point is that Layne came and saved the day. He brought me some keys and even drove the truck home while I drove the van back home with the patient young woman that just wanted a ride back to her home.
When I saw Layne coming up the stairs to the front door when he brought the keys - the thought popped into my head, "Ah, my knight in shining armor!". So, I just had to share.
Funny that we both made the same mistake in the same week. (Hopefully we're done with that one for the next couple of decades.) Nice we laughed through it and moved forward. Wonderful we 'have each other's backs'. Glad I have someone to help me out when I'm lame.:}
