a squirrelly story

[elionwyr]

Monday morning, I had my first "accident" - on the positive side, it was merely a tapping of fenders in a parking lot that resulted in no damage to people or cars.. On the negative side, I hit a car that held a man feeding his infant child! :\

In the upset of the moment, I locked my keys in the car. With the engine running. :\

Fortunately, there was a police station right across the street, so I walked over to get help.

Along the way, I saw a young squirrel - furred but in that stoopid baby stage - hiding under his mommy, who took one look at me coming and ran away.

The baby did not.

This created a weird wildlife rehabber/Dr Doolittle moment.

Me: "Hey...are you ok?"
Him: "Hey..are you a squirrel?"
Me: "I'm not going to hurt you...but I want to make sure you're ok. Why aren't you running away?"
Him: "I'm not running because I'm not sure I should. Mom? What should I do?"
Me: "I could just pick you right up, couldn't I?" (hand nearly reaches out)
Him: "Yes, you could...but saaaaaaaay, I don't think you're a squirrel after all, are you?!?!"
Me: "Well, no. No I'm not. And you might bite me, huh?"
Him: "I could! So I think I'll just run up this tree instead." *zoooom*

Very weird. Very blonde of me.

A cop comes over to help me with the car. "Why are you parked like this?"
*sigh* "Because..." I stopped. Damn. There was just no good way to say this. So I quickly explained I'd tapped someone's car, he had left, and I'd locked my keys in the car.

The cop nodded. "You realize that your lock or window could be broken when I pop the lock?"

I waved my hand. "Like I'd notice. Go ahead."

He slipped a metal took between the window and the door.
*click*
He looked at me. "Or...not."
I shrugged. "I already knew the car was easy to break into. So. Do you want to see proof that it's my car?"
"Oh. Sure. May I see your license?"

Very strange morning.
And yeah. I should have just gone back to bed after that..

Comments

in your own words?

[irisl.livejournal.com]

In the world of misery loves company - I once pulled up to access the bank MAC across form city hall and inmy rush - yep - I locked the car with the keys in the ignition and the engine running. Mind you - a lot of cops drive by there.

I went across the street to a jewerly store and begged a coat hanger from the shop keeper. Here I am in the middle of the day quite obvuiously breaking into a car with a coat hanger - and NO ONE stopped to see if it was my car or if I needed help (no big surprise there). At least a few cops just drove by and didn't even give me a second glance.

I am still not sure if I am more glad that no one tried to arrest me or bothered by the fact that it never even triggered a questioning. Maybe because I am female the figured I could get into the car anyway - I fooled them though!

apple - tree. tree - apple.

:-)
mom

[foxyshadis.livejournal.com]

That's what I did. Woke up late and groggy, morning didn't get much better, so I just said whatever and fell back asleep. Did wonders, even though I still didn't get quite enough sleep. Bother.

Nothing like sleeping through a day to wait out the next, though.

[vyoma.livejournal.com]

If you'd have tried to pick up the cop, he probably would have run up a tree.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

*snortle*

That might have been worth the reaction..

[gandryyne.livejournal.com]

OHhhhh, ick, honey! :(

Been there this past spring with my car in the driveway motor running in a rainstorm and on my way to work. AAA took 45 minutes to get to me. Grr!!! The operator didn't tell them my motor was running. How do you call in such a stupid thing to worK?

Glad that there was no real damage tho, here's hoping that's the worst it ever gets!