you know you are overtired when… August 19, 2008
…you aggressively, angrily even, struggle with your car door after leaving a restaurant and returning to the parking lot. As you stab at the remote control button on your keys over and over, and yank on the stubbornly un-budging car door door to no avail, you suddenly realize, this isn’t my car door….and this isn’t my car.
And tonight, I am going to bed earlier.
My husband is red/green color-blind and I used to drive a red car. We were in a parking lot walking towards my car and I was walking a little ahead of him. Therefore, I didn’t notice him walk over to a car just like mine only green. He was so wrapped out in cussing out the offending car and his keys that he didn’t notice me about 4 cars down wondering why he was yelling at that green car.
Oh, I’ve tried to get into cars that aren’t mine before also… so embarrassing!
I did that once while driving my Aunt’s car. Except I was actually able to unlock and open the car door. My cousin pointed out we were at the wrong vehicle… I got it locked back and was walking away when the owner walked up.
Did that one afternoon. After trying and trying I realized that van was way to clean to belong to me!
My sister once actually opened the wrong car and DROVE IT HOME! Somehow the key actually fit. She did not notice her mistake until the next morning. I think the car had been unlocked the night before, and though her ignition key had worked she could not unlock it so that she could return it! I forget how we were able to figure out whose car it was. My husband, who is an attorney, called the guy on my sister’s behalf and explained. Luckily, he had not noticed his loss and we were able to straighten everything out!