A month or so ago, Susan and the kids were quite late coming home from work. I tried calling her cell phone multiple times and got no answer. Being who I am, I eventually got in the car and drove back to work, backtracking to make sure she wasn’t stranded on the side of the road somewhere. I was really pissed by the time she finally got home, and was told that I had over reacted, that she was a big girl and could take care of herself, and that I was out of line for getting so upset about the ordeal. Point taken. My only point was that we had just bought her a $500 cell phone, so it would be nice if she would use it if she was going to be an hour late (when I had seen her leaving work at the same time as myself). <\/p>\n

Fast forward to last night. Susan usually gets home around 5:30pm, same as me. At 5:45, was I worried when she wasn’t there? Nope, I just kept surfing the internet. Was I concerned at 6pm when they hadn’t shown up? Nope, I just flipped on the television. At 6:10pm, a strange car pulled into the driveway and I saw Susan and the kids getting out of it. She had run the car out of gas and had to get a ride home. And her $500 cell phone? At home, on the kitchen counter. <\/p>\n

After getting a hold of someone to come over and watch the kids (thanks Liz), we found a gas can, got a gallon of gas at 7-11, and went back to get the Rodeo. Now I don’t know if you remember this but one person in our family (me) has been hit by a car while standing on the side of the interstate, so as I was fueling up the car I kept flinching every time a car drove anywhere near where I was standing. So after putting the gallon of gas in … the car still wouldn’t start. So, we went back to get more gas to put in. After another 2 gallons (I think we were parked on a hill), the car started right up. We finally got home an hour or so later. <\/p>\n

Several people who drove by honked and flipped us off, as if we had planned the side of the road as a good place to refuel the car. Right. Tomorrow, we’re going to park in the median to wash our cars. Yeah, right. Ah well. All’s well that ends well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A month or so ago, Susan and the kids were quite late coming home from work. I tried calling her cell phone multiple times and got no answer. Being who I am, I eventually got in the car and drove back to work, backtracking to make sure she wasn’t stranded on the side of the road somewhere. I was really pissed by the time she finally got home, and was told that I had over reacted, that she was a big girl and could take care of herself, and that I was out of line for getting so upset about… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}