Me, Behind the Wheel

Taite had piano adjudication on Friday at 8:30 A.M. in a new location for me! So, naturally I was up late Thursday night studying the google map to chart my course. I decided to play fast and loose and only allow myself twenty minutes to be lost.  Naturally on Friday morning at 8:15 A.M I was heading east when I should have been heading west, and sweating.  Yep, here I was again behind the wheel and lost.  Well, not entirely lost; I knew if we could just leap over the school and baseball field and reach the road on the other side we would be in the general area, but I just couldn’t find a street to take me there.

It just isn’t enough for poor Taite to have to be thinking about doing well on her piano pieces, she has to wonder if we’ll ever even get there!

I called Meghan, and if you know anything about Meghan and her ability to navigate, you will know it was a call of absolute desperation.  I had called Andrew but he had already left to go haul yard stuff to the dump at our other blessed house and because he feels that cell phones are  a ball and chain around his ear, refuses to own one, so there I was calling Meghan.

When I told her where I was, she exclaimed, “Oh no, mom, you can’t get there that way!  You have to go behind Safeway, do you see Safeway?”  She carefully meandered me there and we arrived a full seven minutes early.

After adjudication Taite and I went to get a different birthday present for Canon.  The day before, because I was going to be sooooo on top of things I had bought Canon a gift and when I walked into the house with the super sized Tonka truck, Matthias took one look and said, “Canon already has one of those.”  Taite later confirmed it when she walked in and saw it laying there, “Canon already has one of those.”  ”So I’ve heard.”  So, Friday morning after adjudication, we were going for something else.

Friday was going to be a full day.  Meghan and her four and Caitlin and her two would be spending Friday night at our house  Matthias had basketball practice, Taite had dance, Zac, Eric, and Matt B. would showing up to leave for Caitlin and Zac’s big move, making a grand total of thirteen for dinner.  So as soon as I got back from my little adjudication and gift exchange excursion, I changed the sheets on beds and made a plan for dinner.

As evening arrived I was feeling pretty much on top of the situation, Matthias ate early and ran off for basketball practice, the moving truck arrived and those guys were ready for dinner so they could get going to Seattle and Taite was finishing her dinner.  In the midst of all that shuffle, Taite and I left for her dance.

Now in the driver’s seat, I noticed the other garage door was open and pushed the ‘close’ button.  The door started down but soon started back up and the light above the opener started f-l-a-s-h-i-n-g.  That’s odd, but I continued to back out and then in a split second glancing over, I realized I had crunched Matthias’s scooter in the door and continued backing out and then, B-A-M! I  backed into Meghan and Eric’s car. DANG!  Pulling forward just a bit and turning left  I s-m-a-c-k hit a bike in front of me.

I continued down the road and then called Andrew to tell him of the havoc I had wrought and that I’d be back in an hour.