HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROSE!!!!!

First, I want to say--"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" to my WONDERFUL Mother-in-Law!!!!!--What a BLESSING she's been to us--MANY TIMES OVER!!!!!

And, then I want to tell you WHAT happened to us last Friday--I now call it our 'Retracing Our Steps' Day, because we ended up doing that TWICE!!! And, for those of you who don't know me that well, yet--I don't even like to go PAST a place & come back--calling that 'backtracking' & feeling like it's a WASTE of my time!!!

The first one/thing happened in the afternoon--Larry was off work that day and in a 'borrowed' car from the BMW place, while his 750 was getting fixed. It was a 325/smaller, but nice & new. We decided to go to Sam's & buy some things we were running short on, like toilet paper, etc. And, then we brought it all home, first, before he went to get HIS car.

Well, since it was RAINING & COLD, he decided to BACK the smaller car into our garage & I 'got out FAST'--remember that part--to help him back it up 'right'--then, we UNloaded it all & he left to go get HIS car. Traffic was really bad. which surprised us being the Friday before Easter, but there was a wreck on his way, so it took him OVER 30 minutes just to get there--then, on his way home, there was another wreck & it took him OVER 30 minutes, again, to get home!!!!! So, what SHOULD have only taken about 30 minutes total, took an hour!!!

We had already planned to eat out at our favorite Mexican place & then go to a movie later that night, so it was when we were leaving to go eat that I realized that I HAD LEFT my wallet in the FLOOR BOARD of that 'borrowed' BMW--which was NOW back at the Dealership!!!!!!!!! SO, we HAD to drive BACK there to get it!!!!! I had our 'cash' for the weekend in it, plus all the other important things that are in a woman's wallet.

But, the 2nd time he drove up there & back, it ONLY took him/us about 35 minutes, total, so that was good.
Our supper went by uneventfully, and it was at the movies that we/he had our 2nd RETRACING time--he always drops me off & I buy our tickets & have them & sometimes our food/drink by the time he gets inside. He also visited the restroom, and then we headed for our theater & THAT'S WHEN he realized that he had ACCIDENTALLY dropped his car keys OUT of his jeans pocket that had a HOLE in them!!!!!!!!!

So, he walked all the way back out to our car, from inside the Mall, and didn't/couldn't find them UNTIL he went BACK into the restroom & THERE THEY WERE, on the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, since we're NOT USED to needing/having to RETRACE our steps & ended up doing it TWICE in one afternoon--just hours apart--we're HOPING that this will TAKE CARE of that for a LONG TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This may not come across FUNNY, but believe me, AS we were doing the 'lost wallet' one, it WAS FUN!!!!!!!! Of course, the 'lost car keys' one was MORE disturbing, but we knew, for sure, they were 'close', so we weren't TOO worried!!!!!

So, I guess the moral to this TRUE story is--when you end up having to RE-do something, just 'GO WITH THE FLOW' & "ENJOY YOURSELF"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's what we did & IT WAS FUNNY, at the time, TO US!!!!! Love Ya HONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!