Curses

So today on my lunch break I run to a store to pick up a few things. It includes a cheap pair of jeans, a coupla bottles of wine (it's the weekend and one was only 5$, plus today is payday!) and some 75% off Christmas candy that might as well just call itself 'Peppermint Bark' (it calls itself peppermint squares, btw). I get out to the car, punch the button on my fob for the trunk, toss everything in, slam the trunk lid, and realize - just as the trunk lid closes - that my keys were also one of the things that got tossed in the trunk.

Arrghhhhh!

Call the cousin, who fortunately has his cell phone turned on, and who also fortunately has nothing else going on. He grabs my spare set of keys and drives to where I am to bring me the keys so I can open the trunk and retrieve my main keys. (Thank you, Gary!) Do I feel stupid?? Duh! I have never done this before - well, once about 20 years ago I locked the keys in my old station wagon, but fortunately I hadn't locked the rear door, so just crawled in and got the keys. No such luck with this car. Walked around the parking lot for a while, but Cuz showed up with spare keys about 20 minutes later. Not a total loss - handed off the wine I'd just purchased and he took it home to put in the fridge so it was chilled by the time I got home after work.

The funniest thing is - tried to call work about six times and let them know what happened, but couldn't get through. When I finally got back to work (30 minutes late) no one had even noticed. When you work in a cube, are you ever really missed???

And now totally off the subject - here's a picture of some trees that were decorated for Christmas by a large company I refuse to name. The trees are still adorned and I was finally able to get pictures of them last night. May it brighten your night!