Will the driver of the maroon Sienna please come to the front desk? Your lights are on, and there's nobody home.

Dorky things I did today, in order of appearance, all on a single car-repair errand.

(1) Gave the dealership cashier my expired proof-of-insurance card (I do not know why the old one and not the new one was in my glove compartment) when I went to pick up the loaner car, necessitating a telephone call to the insurance company while my children rolled on the floor and asked, "Will it be much longer?" 

(2) Miscalculated the one-to-one correspondence between children and child restraints when unloading my van, so that when I came back to retrieve my belongings from the pile on the floor in the corner of the service bay to put them in the loaner vehicle, I realized I didn't have the baby's car seat.  Had to send the cashier to get a technician to retrieve my van from the service lot so I could pull the baby's car seat out and put it in the loaner car.

(3) Drove all the way home, put loaner car in garage (because I remembered the garage door opener), turned off the ignition, prepared to ask Oscar to take the keys and unlock the house so I could carry sleeping baby inside ... and realized that my house key was back at the dealership, attached to the van ignition key.

(4) Called husband and left idiotic-sounding appeal for help on his voicemail before realizing that the easiest solution was to drive back to the dealership and retrieve my key, thus unnecessarily incrementing by one the number of people who think I'm an idiot today.

Comments

[Christy P]

How ironic, I visited the Toyota dealership today also. I will be back on Thursday because they didn't have the part they needed for fixing the non-safety-related, but annoying noise coming from my brakes. But fortunately, I could do the dropping and picking and not worry about kids or carseats. Just shuttle vehicles and the city bus.