AAA

Mimi likes to be a big girl.

Driving is of particular interest to her, so our newest ritual is unbuckling her from the car seat and pulling her up in the front seat with me and allowing her to push buttons and steer the wheel.

I generally am just patient enough to allow this exercise to last for a few minutes and then we move on to real life.

Today, real life consisted of a nap and lunch and not returning to the car for a few hours.

When I did, I heard a nice..twink..twink..and my heart kind of sank as I turned the key with hope and heard a not quite metal not quite anything sound...which also consisted of a lack of engine noise.

My thoughts went immediately to trying to figure out when my husband would be home so he could save me by allowing me to hand my mess to him..but that would be not nice..and I have work in the morning..so real life began consisting of a few frantic..now what moments...

We joined AAA last month. When we joined, I laughed at my better half and joked about being officially old..and how much of a worthless endeavor this would prove to be.

Thank you AAA for not being a crappy worthless service after all.

Thank you for taking less than 30 minutes to dispatch someone to my garage to start my battery at no cost to me.

Thank you for not asking details about the situation as to spare me from feeling any more like an idiot than I did at the moment when I realized the car had to have been shooting a loud warning at me when I extracted us originally....