Wednesday, July 24, 2013

parking lot madness

today I was borrowing my dad’s SUV because he’s out of town and I’m in town without my car.  my mom asked me to run to Home Depot to grab 2 big bags of top soil so she could finish transplanting a palm tree.

had I known what near heart-attack inducing chaos this would cause, I would have not have agreed to do the favor.

I go to the ol’ HD.  buy the top soil.  toss the heavy bags in the back of my dad’s SUV on top of miscellaneous tools he had sitting in a crate.  no big deal.  helpin’ my mom out.  like a boss.

I start pulling out of the parking lot and turn a corner and suddenly…

POOF!  and then what sounded like a  “hoooooooooooooonk” and something letting pressure out.

now, anyone who knows me knows how much I love sudden loud noises.  this was loud enough to freak anyone out, I swear. 

so I’m ducking and still driving and quick pull back down another aisle in the parking lot and park all caddy-whompus across like 3 parking spaces.  I turn the truck off and jump out – safety first, people.  there was no way I was going to be caught in that thing if it exploded.

I call my brother-in-law because my dad’s out of the country and I can’t instantly get a hold of him.  the conversation went something like this:

me: ANDY!  something just like…I don’t even know, it sounded like it was some sort of gas explosion in the back of dad’s sequoia!!!!
Andy:  haha, aunt jen – is this some kind of joke, like YOU were the one who let out a massive gas explosion?

(…touche, touche)

me:  NO!  I’m being serious!  I don’t know what happened, it sounded like a “POOF!” and then something letting air out but it was like…super loud, like an air horn!

Andy went thru a number of scenarios that he thought it could have been – air in the gas tank, something with the brakes – but I kept telling him it was super loud, like a horn. thoroughly confused but knowing I was serious because of the sound of panic in my voice, he told me he’d run it by the guys he was with and he’d call me back.

I get off the phone and it’s been like, over 5 minutes since this started.  I figured since the Sequoia hadn’t exploded yet, maybe it was safe to open up the back and just gently look around for what may have caused this fiasco.  so I pull out the top soil bags and…

…there’s an air horn sitting under them.

I kid you not.  apparently I had put the bags right on top of it and when I turned in the parking lot, they shifted just enough to land on the horn.

which begs the question – why would someone have an air horn hanging out with the tools in their truck?!?!  that’s what I want to know.

this concludes my story.  I don’t have a grand spiritual analogy for it.  I’m sure someone could think of one.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Airports

Sitting in the Atlanta airport, waiting to fly home to good ol' SoFla for a couple weeks. This will be the last leg of my 7 weeks living out of a suitcase!  Excited to see family and lots of friends the next couple weeks, then get back out West and stay put for a little while. 

I can't believe the summer God has let me have - I love my life!! He has taught me mucho, especially the last couple weeks.  

That's all for now. :)