So yesterday afternoon I’m pulling out of the grocery store parking lot when my car alarm starts going off. I have no idea what I’ve done to trigger it, but I cannot figure out how to silence the blasted thing.
I finally pull over, turn the engine off, unlock the doors, and lock them again in a desperate attempt to stop the blaring horns. It works, and I breathe a sigh of relief and feel the heat disappearing from my flushed face.
I’ve almost completely recovered when I hear my preschooler say, “Mommy, everybody was looking at you like you were a weirdo.”
And I thought I had at least another decade or so of coolness before my daughter saw me for the nerd that I am.
My mother-in-law had the very same thing happen to her! She had to drive all the way home with her alarm blaring, people looking at her, even giving her the finger! She was mortified. Pulled into the driveway, and it suddenly stopped. She turned the car off, got out, and it started AGAIN!! I think that’s when she kicked it. That car was possessed!
OH my goodness…I hate it when that happens. Glad I am not the only one…thanks for the chuckle.
You may have fallen in rank, but at least your daughter saw a calm, controlled handling of an embarrassing situation! Way to go, even if you were red in the face!
That happened to me once! I didn’t know that there was an alarm on the car I drove during college. I had no choice but to drive it all the way home–four miles in the city–and a cop finally started following me about two blocks from home. By the time he pulled up behind me in front of my apartment, I had the hood open and had lifted the alarm box slightly, which silenced it. I told him that my papers were in the glove box but that I didn’t want to let go because the deafening alarm would start again. He laughed at me, got a pair of wire cutters out of the trunk, and snipped the power. I didn’t have a problem after that!
lol thanks for the laugh.
I haven’t had an alarm go off but my teenage children always tell me what an embarrassment I am.
You’re still cool to us! By the way, I made your tropical smoothie last night, and it was the first time ever that my hubby and I ate tofu! It was delicious :)