of course it did.
so for the past five days, every time the ladies and i have needed to leave or return home in air so cold it makes your nostrils snap shut and freeze when you breath in, here's what i've had to do:
- strap two wiggly girls into their car seats without benefit of any sensation in my fingers
- gently place a double-thick polar fleece lap robe over each little principessa ("i'm coooold! i'm coooold!")
- back the minivan (sexy) out of the garage
- get out of the minivan
- yank on the (old, rotted, ripped) cord on the inside of the garage door
- when garage door fails to move, get up on stool (did i mention i'm 5'2"? i'm 5'2"), grab the emergency release cable dangling from ceiling, and yank over and over again until my arm gives out
- eventually get the door released and slide it closed
- get back in the minivan
- curse silently and prolifically in my head
today, when i was clambering back into the van (hard to walk when you can't feel your feet), josie said, "why were you dancing around like a little monkey?"
and inside my head, i made a whole fleet of sailors blush.
1 comment:
I can so empathize with you. Apparently, my garage door doesn't like the cold. It works FINE when it's 45 (and which of us doesn't?) but, let it dip below 32 & it will only drop 3 inches, stop, and head back up. Instead of mimicing your dancing monkey moves, I sit there hitting the dang button 32 times until it gets w/in 2" of the ground. I figure if the 17lb cat can shimmy thru that, he deserves to get out & freeze his, aw let's just say legs, off!!!!
BTW, my "toddlers" are now 13 & 11. You'd think they could help their poor aged momma. No! They have no concept of a world w/o a garage door opener.
I love your blog & read it daily. You are a fantastic writer!!!
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