Manic Monday

What a morning!!!!!. Up at 6:30 to get ready to go to FaBoom Dance Studio and clean for 2 hours before Zumba class at 10 a.m. While driving there, my hubby calls me on my cell & tells me a Sig alert he heard on the radio that the exit I was going to get off of was close and 3 lanes on the 15 freeway also closed due to a over turned truck. Of all the morning for this to happen.

So I get off a couple exits before the one I was suppose to get off and call my friend who lives in that area & asked if she knows a way to get where I am now over to the studio. She really didn't so I decided to wing it and follow the traffic that got off the same exit as me to avoid the stopped traffic on the freeway. I ended up a little lost and called Shell who is the owner of Faboom and ask her to help me find my way.

She didn't know where I was exactly and lead me back to the freeway and from that on ramp I had only the next exit to get to studio. As I got back on the freeway it was a dead stop. So I see everyone is getting out of their vehicles while waiting and so I turn off my truck and waited patiently along with the others. About 15 minutes go by and I see the cops moving the traffic along in one lane but at least we're moving. I start up my truck and go to put it in drive and it won't move out of park. I make sure my truck is on and try and try again but it's stuck in park. Cars behind now start honking at me and I don't know what to do. I am trying as hard as I can to get it to move and nothing.

So I wave down a guy and ask him to please help me. As the cars are passing me they are yelling at me and flipping me off because now the traffic is starting to move but me in the slow lane and everyone behind me is stuck there. Like I'm doing this on purpose!!!!!. This guy finally finds a button by my gear stick and gets it into drive and then puts it in neutral and tells me to take the brake off and put in drive and go. I ask him what about when I get to where I'm going, how am I going to get it to go in drive again?. He shows me this button that I knew nothing about and if I push it down with a pen or key it will release my gear to go into drive. I was praying he was correct on this and thanked him as cars are going around me, and now won't let me move over so I can drive by this accident and get to the studio.

I finally just get my truck over to the next lane and get to the studio and put it in park and then tried it again at that time to get it in drive and nothing. I find the button he showed me and push a key into it and it worked. Thank God I won't have to call tow to bring my truck home.

I do my studio cleaning and do my Zumba class and have to get out of there to get home to feed my fur kids. Had to use the button to get it in gear and it worked and so I take off and get on the freeway. I'm going under the speed limit due to traffic and the next thing I see when I look up into my rear view mirror is a cop on a motorcycle with his lights on.

Your pulling over me I'm thinking WTF is now going on. I didn't want to have an attitude with him so I was nice and polite and ask him what I was doing wrong. He asks me if I knew I didn't have any brake lights. I was shocked and said no. He asks for my I.D etc. and runs a check on me and I am sitting there thinking "Great now a ticket for no brake lights". He returns to my truck and I tell him about my gear shift not working etc. and then he says it is probably a sensor for my brakes and that stops the gear from shifting so I guess you can't drive. I tell the cop I am on my way to auto repair and beg this cop to please not give me a ticket or even a warning notice because it is such a hassle to get those written off.

Very surprisingly he let me go on my word that I was going to auto repair now. I just wanted to kiss that cop because I am not usually lucky with cops.

I get to my auto repair guy and sure enough it was a brake light sensor and he had to order it and it costs about 50.00 he says. He said it was on it's way and that it should be there in about 20 minutes. I tell him I will drive home real quick and feed my fur kids and come back.

I get home feed the fur kids and my potbelly and thought I better call first to make sure its in and I won't have to sit there and wait for it. It's been an hour in a half now and still no part. I am hoping it will hurry up and get there so they can replace it.

I figure I would take the fur kids with me and stop at CVS before going to repair. I get the fur kids in the truck and realize I don't have my keys. Oh crap!!!. Sure enough, I locked my front door and my keys to the truck & house were in the house. Man what is going on today!!!. So I am beginning to stress out and then I remember something I did years ago and a big smile grew on my face.

I had gotten a copy of all our keys to house and vehicles and got a big pill bottle with a lid and put all the keys inside it, wrapped duct tape around the lid so water wouldn't get inside of it and buried it in our yard for moments like this. I go to the spot where I buried it, started digging and it's not there. I'm thinking I know I buried it there and dig a little deeper and still no bottle. Now I'm really stressing again thinking I might have to break into my own house but then again my brain went into high gear and I remembered I had to use these keys another time about 4 months ago and re buried it else where because some one was here when I dug it up before. I go to the spot where I think I re buried it and sure enough, there is the bottle. I open it and get my truck key out of it and go to repair shop and the part is there waiting for me and they put it in and did a oil change and filled my tires and now I am done. YAY!!!

What a morning.!!!!! I hate days like this. So hopefully nothing else happens today and I can relax and finish grooming my golden Ally before her vet appointment on Wednesday.

So if you all have an automatic, check your manuals or ask someone for that release button and to show you where it is. If it wasn't for that guy who helped me on the freeway, I probably would be still there trying to figure out what is wrong until someone came along and showed me that button. Also I would recommend putting extra keys to your vehicles and home in a pill bottle and burying it in your yard. It sure came in handy and was a life saver for me and my screened window.

Now I feel better getting all that off my chest. Have a great Monday. I know I will cause it can't get any worse then what it was already. (Knock on wood).