Wow! Does this story get better. I planned to leave for my parents house on Thursday morning. I got up early and got everything ready to leave. Jason told me to go out and put the jumper box on the van about an hour before I was going to leave. I put it on an hour and a half early. So, I'm all ready to go and I go out to start and van and....nothing! It wouldn't even turn over. Okay, I'm upset. I have arranged to meet with a friend from high school and my sister, etc, and now my plans were getting botched. I e-mail Jason at work and tell him to come home on his prep. Meanwhile, I call and leave a message with my brother and talk to my dad. My dad seemed to think it was either the battery, the starter, or the connection in between. So I start taking the battery out to go get it tested. Well, long story short(er), it was fine. Jason came home and he decided I would take the car and he would walk to wherever he needed to go (in the freezing cold weather, I might add). So, I take him back to school and forgot to give him his keys. My brother called me on the way home and said he would come and help me. When I got home Jason said he didn't have his keys so I said I would either bring them to him or leave the house unlocked. My brother got here from Logan and figured out that the van was not all the way in park. KICK ME NOW! THAT WAS IT! Well, it's a Ford and they have a safety system so even though it looked like it was in park, it wasn't completely in the slot. Yeah! So I decide that I'm still taking the car and asked my brother to help me take the van to the school so Jason won't have to walk. I take the keys to Jason tell him how to get the van started if it won't go, give him the keys, and leave. About 8:00 that night I get a call from him at home and this is how the conversation went:
Him: "Where's the van?"
Me: "Um...at the school."
Him: "Well, that would have been nice to know because I just walked all the way home."
Replaying our conversation from earlier and I never said, "By the way, the van is in the parking lot." My bringing the keys did not register to him that I was also bringing him a car because I told him earlier that I would bring his keys. So, he walked all the way back to school in the freezing weather to get the van. I felt so bad so I hope I learned my lesson in fully communicating. But, hey, the van is fixed now!
Lagoon
7 years ago
4 comments:
Oh no! I am glad you figured it out. I had a car that did the same thing, and more than once, it caused grief. I hope Jason ran, so he could get warm.
Thats so horrible!! What a great story to tell the grandkids tho right??
Hilarious!!! I'm dying here...
Ha...laughing...owch...that was funny. Interesting how little communication differences can totally change the outcome.
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