oh blue Chevy Aveo hatchbacks
so gas friendly and compact and cute
you all look the same
Heading to my OB appointment this morning, I figured it would make the most sense to drive my husband’s little car, the one we bought used recently, so as to not use gas unnecessarily by driving our family car. Admittedly hesitant at first, as that car has issues and the battery has gone dead on us a handful of times already, I hopped in anyway.
On the way to my appointment, which was about 45 minutes away, I stopped by the bank. The teller complimented me on my pink shirt and then asked if I was “going fishing today?”
“Nope,” I giggled, glancing at the fishing gear that rather filled the car, “All these rods and reels are my husband’s. I took his car today.”
I don’t often drive the Aveo. In fact, until this afternoon, I don’t know that I even knew exactly what kind of car it was. Just the used run around car we got recently, before attempting (unsuccessfully so far) to sell my husband’s truck to downsize our automobile situation. It’s a fine car, though. An automatic, royal blue hatchback. It kind of looks like this, but older:
My OB appointment went smashingly. MckFlurry’s heartrate was 155 bpm, everything on his ultrasound looked good and I did my one hour glucose screen. I’m sure I failed. I always do, although I won’t find out until tomorrow. After my appointment, I hopped back into my husband’s car and zipped home. On the way, I stopped at Target. I had a prescription to fill and a few things for my trip to Texas to buy. I also got toothbrushes while I was there, because I realized we were overdue for fresh ones.
I wheeled the red cart out to the parking lot, texted my husband to let him know I would be home in about a half hour, hit the unlock key on the key fob for the Aveo, loaded my stuff into the hatchback trunk area and into the backseat. After wheeling the shopping cart to the corral, I eased myself into the low seat, shut the driver’s door and stuck the key into the ignition.
But it wouldn’t budge.
I don’t mean that the key turned but the car wouldn’t start. That has happened with the Aveo plenty of times. I mean, it was like the ignition was locked. Stuck. Wouldn’t budge. Well, I’m no car expert, but I have already had reason to learn that when that happens, sometimes all it takes is a jiggle of the steering wheel for the key to turn.
Jiggle. Nothing. Jiggle, jiggle. Nothing. Jiggle, jiggle, turn, crank. Nothing. And at this point, the steering wheel itself became locked in the turning right position.
I was hot. It had been a long morning. I just wanted to get home. But I was determined to figure it out. I tried everything I could think of. More jiggling, more trying to turn the key, pressing and releasing the emergency brake, attempting to lock and unlock the car doors. Oddly enough, the buttons on the key fob would no longer lock or unlock the doors, although the little red light on the fob lit up. I was out of options. I called my husband, hoping maybe this was a common experience for him with his car and that he might have a tip for me.
He didn’t.
Sigh. He was about to put Stellan down for his nap, so I hung up and tried more things, including more jiggling, praying and then finding two different men in the parking lot and asking them for help. They were both very willing, but only had ideas about things I’d already tried. Clearly the security system must have frozen or something.
So I did what any other rational woman stranded at Target with no idea what to do next would do: I Tweeted. In snippets of 140 characters, I sent out to those who follow me a complete description of what was happening, listed things I’d tried and gave the make and model of my husband’s car. Surely someone would have an idea for me, as my readers are a wealth of knowledge. And, indeed, lots of great ideas came floating back to me through cyberspace.
Push the brake while wiggling the steering wheel. Look for a security reset button under the steering wheel. Wait a while and try again. Check to make sure you have the right key. Is it in park?
I poured over the Twitter responses, but after trying all the suggestions, still had an ignition that wouldn’t budge. I called my husband again and asked if he wanted me to call someone or if he’d come. He said he would forgo Stellan’s nap, pack up the kids and head my way, but to call if I got anything figured out. Finally, a message came through Twitter that I hadn’t tried: Check the owner’s manual and see if there is a troubleshooting section or some information about the security system. I’ll admit to having a great lack of optimism as I opened the glove box. My husband is, ahem, not the most organized person. But lo and behold, the manual was there, atop a surprisingly neat pile of papers.
With the driver’s door open, because I was getting so hot, I sat with one leg out of the car, looking through the manual. It had easily been 30 minutes since I’d gotten in the car by this point and I was frustrated. As I was searching the manual, a lady carrying Target shopping bags started to approach my car. My first thought was, Oh, joy! She’s coming to help me! Shortly thereafter, I dismissed that thought, because how on earth would she know I needed help? And, besides, that wasn’t exactly looking like a helpful expression on her face.
In fact, as she came nearer, I made eye contact with her, waiting to see what she wanted, and her expression turned quite sour. I would almost describe it as a dirty look and I was honestly thinking to myself, what on earth could she be so crabby about?
The lady was almost to me where I sat in the open driver’s side, when she asked loudly, “What are you doing!?”
Yikes! I have never been so befuddled in my entire life. Why did she care if I was sitting in the Target parking lot in my car with the door open? I had no inkling where this was going. “Well, I’m having car trouble.” I mean, seriously, what was her deal?
“Car trouble!?” She retorted. “This is my car!!!”
For a split second, I thought she was crazy. I turned my head to the back seat, to see the fishing gear and such that would affirm that this was, indeed, our royal blue Chevy Aveo hatchback. My eyes fell upon my Target bags and nothing else. No fishing poles.
I was in this lady’s car, not ours.
The range of emotions I had went from horrid embarrassment to utter thankfulness that I was not actually stranded to great worry about what this lady was going to say and do. She was not happy. I hopped out of her car and started to profusely apologize. Out of my mouth gushed words about this all making sense now and how my husband’s car looked the same and I didn’t normally drive it and how I’d been to an OB appointment and was leaving on a trip this weekend and how sorry I was. She was not impressed with my explanation at first and brushed past me to get into her car, seemingly to check to see if I’d done damage or taken anything.
It wasn’t long thereafter when she got out of the car, her mood totally changed, and she said she believed me. She actually apologized for her demeanor at first and I told her it was fine, I am sure I would have reacted the same way! We ended up giggling about the silly mistake, comparing keys to make sure they weren’t really that similar and talking about exactly how this had happened. She had left her car unlocked. Her Aveo doesn’t even have power locks. So when I hit the button on our key fob, I thought it unlocked the car, but clearly it didn’t. Her car was already unlocked, so I had no reason to think it wasn’t our car.
Well, except for the fact that nothing in the car was similar to what was in our car. Namely, hers was neat and tidy and my husband’s was not. “Didn’t you notice once you were in the car that the stuff wasn’t yours?”
“I didn’t,” I honestly replied. “It didn’t occur to me once. I am so very sorry.”
I rang my husband next, to tell him he didn’t have to come after all, and the first thing he asked was, “Didn’t you notice once you were in the car that the stuff wasn’t yours?”
Sigh. “No, I didn’t.”
He was already almost there and had thought of something he needed at Target anyway, so he said he’d just still come and meet up with me. The lady and I, now jovial and friendly with each other, shook hands and parted ways. No harm, no foul.
Or so we thought.
After I took my recent purchases out of her backseat and her trunk, I made my way about three rows over to our Aveo. I unlocked our doors and loaded my Target purchases into our car. Before I could do anything else, the lady was making her way towards me, calling out, “My car won’t start with my key, either!”
Oh, dear.
All my efforts to get my key to start her car had indeed locked things up for her. I went back and tried to help the lady figure it out. She was understandably not in a good mood again. She had a function to attend and she was already late. I kept apologizing, we tried more jiggling and steer wheel turning and I began to feel so awful again. “Of course, I’ll pay to get things fixed. Oh, I’m so sorry!” She got on the phone with some Chevy people to get advice and my husband arrived. No one could get anything figured out and tensions were rising. He took our MSC into Target to get what he needed and some cool drinks for me and the lady.
I made the suggestion to call the police and the owner of the jammed Chevy Aveo thought it was a good idea. I called, a very kind sheriff arrived, we talked it all over with him, and with a smile he hopped into the Aveo with the lady’s key and said he’d at least give it a try.
With a whir and a rumble, her car started right up, the proud policeman got out of the car and said he was pleased to help, and the lady hugged him and then me. She asked if I needed water or was going to faint. I said I was fine and we exchanged pleasantries and names and phone numbers.
And then my pregnancy brain and I walked away.
That is so nice of you to give a lesson to a stranger on the rules of locking your vehicle. LOL. I bet she doesn’t forget to lock her car again.
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That is SO funny! I once had my sister’s car and went somewhere sketchy at night and hung out with some friends…(the area was sketchy…but we were safe in our friend’s dorm room….
) and when i left i unlocked the car, got in, started it, started driving away and realized that i was NOT in my car! i freaked out and drove back…..parked it, etc…..i was so totally freaked out i left a note…because i was afraid somehow they would know and get my fingerprints! 
oh..i was so innocent! the car was the exact same car, color, etc….freaky! 
I will honestly admit that I rarely read any of your “reader comments”; so just in case what I say is repetative, I’M SORRY!
– Definitely glad Mcflurry is doing well; and I wanted to applaud you for being able to laugh at yourself! Especially in a situation such as this! I’m also very glad you were able to come out of this without a trip to jail, or a severe altercation! People, usually, are truly good, even in the worst of situations!
Have an awesome weekend!
No way! You got into someone else’s car? Hilarious
Dagmar
Dagmar’s momsense
So THAT’s how the remote got in the freezer!
One of the greatest stories ever – hands down!!!
Thanks for the laugh =)
hahaha I’m sorry girl, but I have tears in my eyes after reading that. I was laughing so hard my hubby came in to ask what I was doing! HAHAHA You crack me up.
That’s hilarious!!! I find it fascinating that you remembered that the kids toothbrushes needed refreshed, but didn’t notice that you were in the wrong car. Mothers brains are an amazing thing. We remember the important stuff! =)
Hah, good point!!!
ahahhaha!! That was sooo funny. I have to say, i had NO idea that is where the story was going, you being in the wrong car! LOVED it. Thanks for sharing. What a great story to tell!! You are awesome:)
OH.MY.WORD. I laughed SO hard about this. I’d seen your tweets on FB but not the end of the story. I felt so sorry for you and horrified when the lady was mean and then felt so relieved when it all turned out okay. Phew!! Those were some tense moments! So glad that you finally found your car!
Seriously, That was the funniest story I’ve read in a long time.
oh my!! that is too funny!!!! I laughed out loud, though I did feel very bad for you, especially hearing this other woman’s frustrations too!!! so sorry for your crazy experience!
ROFL w/Hubby..who is a mechanic..and is wondering why it finally started…Too too funny… as a 911 dispatcher I would have LOVED getting this call…! Much better then the 91 yom that drove his car into a raging river yester day! Oh, my..you know..I think this qualifys for a Erma Bombeck..award…If there was such a thing!!!
Ha!
So, so funny! I would have been horrified, as I’m sure you were, but still SO funny.
I did that once- I hopped into an Impala after leaving a restaurant, but luckily I noticed immediately because there were things on the passengers seat that were.not.mine. It’s such an odd feeling, though- the moment you realize what you’ve done and your stomach about drops out of your body.
Thanks for sharing!
Oh my word! I’m cracking up and my husband keeps asking what I’m laughing at! I’m so paranoid of this happening to me! We got a silver town and country recently and now it seems like they are everywhere!
This is something I would totally do at some point, this is hilarious!!!! Thanks for making me laugh!!!
This reminds me of the time I went to Walmart with our youngest…I came out, couldn’t find our van. I was convinced it’d been stolen. Couldn’t believe anyone would want our 10 year old van, with 110,000 miles on it. After going back inside, crying, talking to store management, they called the police, we went outside to try and locate it again, and lo and behold, I’d parked on the OTHER SIDE of the store, over by “Food.” Embarassed is not enough to describe how I felt. And..I was NOT pregnant, so I can’t even use that as an excuse.
Now that I’ve confessed…I feel better.
Hehe:)
I almost went through that in highschool, I went to the mall (driving my dad’s car) during lunch to grab something and when I came out it took me 15 minutes to find the car. I was so upset, freaking out, but I just couldn’t believe that someone would steal the piece of crap (that rarely ever started anyway). Finally I found it, but I was seriously considering calling the cops.
Me and my “pregnancy brain” once went to a dentist appointment (on the wrong date and time of course!) I insisted that it was my appointment time. I was in the middle of my “nesting” and wanting to get things taken care of ….cause I “had to get my teeth cleaning off my to-do list because clearly after the baby I wouldn’t have time”!! The hygienists, seeing there was no way to convince me that I didn’t have an appointment….decided to calm me by taking me to a back office and reclining my pregnant self in a chair with out any intentions of having me have an actual appointment~LOL! They probably just wanted the nutty hormonal pregnant lady out of the waiting room! It makes for a good story later..;)~Chris Ann
So you really didn’t get your teeth cleaned that day? Ugh!
I drive a 2003 Nissan Altima, one of probably 20,000 red Nissa Altimas in Houston. Or more…I don’t know.
I have, upon more than one occasion, tried to unlock the door or trunk of someone else’s red Nissan Altima. My kids always crack up when I finally figure out that I’m trying to get into someone else’s car. (I’ve never been successful, though.
Penny
Oh my goodness…just the funniest story I have heard in a long time. I figured it out pretty early on, but I sat here and laughed and giggled. My kids kept checking on me because I was laughing so hard. THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
Why do you have the “Continue to Keep Reading” at the bottom of this post….there is nothing more to read. I am starting to agree with some of your followers that say you are doing that to get more money for yourself from advertising. This disappoints me!
I’ve explained a few times how to know when there is nothing more to read and you don’t need to bother clicking:) But if you’re going to comment anyway, you have to refresh regardless. Anywhoo, the more we make off our blog, the more we give away, so it’s all a good thing, right?
Oh my goodness! This is tooo funny.
My mom has a red chevy blazer and sometimes the only way we can distinguish that it is hers is by the “Alabama Mom” sticker on the back haha
Oh and another story, my friends were leaving the mall once and my friend driving has a white nissan maxima, well my other friend who was a passenger was walking out of the mall ahead of everyone and got to my friends car, opened the door, and then was stopped by my driver friend who told her that that was not her car! haha the first hint was the car seat in the back…none of us have kids. It was very funny!
I hope all goes well with your pregnancy check-up. Maybe you will pass your sugar test this time.
Love your blog! I enjoy it every time!
Jess
Loved the story about getting the wrong car. It’s awful trying to concentrate when you are pregnant isn’t it?
Enjoyed reading.
LOL that is classic and one all your MSC will love hearing in the future!! Brilliant!! You made me chuckle so loud i had to read it to the whole family!
Something similar happened to me in college. Went to get in my gold Camry and saw the back driver’s side door smashed in. “Someone backed into my car, and drove off!” I checked for a note on the windshield. Nothing. Stormed into a dorm and called the police. Then called my parents, crying because I was so mad. Went outside next to my car and waited on the police to arrive. After I calmed down, I took a closer look at the damage and inspected the rest of the outside. That’s when I noticed the sorority license plate cover. “Wait a second, I’m not in a sorority! This isn’t my car!!” My car was five parking spaces down. Then the police arrived. I explained the situation. You know what they said: “Ma’am, have you been drinking?” Absolutely not! But it might be a better excuse than not paying attention and jumping to conclusions:)
Oh my gosh!!! Soooo funny!
too funny, that pregnancy brain can really get to you, and even after multiple pregnancies it never seems to cut us any slack
wow! how funny/embarrassing!
at least you didn’t do what my MIL did…she got in another car she thought was her’s to BF my youngest brother-in-law!!! she was “caught” by her own mother tho, thank goodness & not the actual owner of the car!
How hysterical/embarrassing/traumatic and a great laugh to my Friday
very funny!
i was waiting for my mom to come out of a store when a strange woman opened the hatch to my white durango and started putting her bags in…when she realized, she screamed. her husband was laughing hysterically from their white LEXUS three spaces away. how she mistook my old car for her new nice one is still a mystery!
My husband read this, chuckled and said “that sounds exactly like something you would do”. Can you still have pregnancy brain when your youngest child is seven? Really funny story. I’m glad everything worked out well.
I’m sure you can!!
I’m sorry to laugh, but it is rather funny. I was hoping the real owner hadn’t caught up with you. Otherwise you may have been there for a while! I had to tell my hubby about this last night and we both got a goo laugh out of it. He just kept asking how you couldn’t have notice that it wasn’t your car.
OH MY goodness!!! I CAN’T stop laughing!
I’m still laughing about this!
I drive a dark silver Ford Taurus. There are enough cars that look JUST LIKE it that I have started a Facebook photo album titled “That’s Not My Car.”
I am 26 weeks pregnant and all I have to say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU for making the stuff I’ve been doing look “normal”. My husband just gave me a hard time for leaving our front door open with the keys in the front door. Luckily we live in the country and it was the door leading to the garage so no one noticed. I also left it wide open (without the keys) once while I was gone! He doesn’t think it’s very funny but all I could do was laugh and shrug at that point. I promised to try not to let it happen again
That was hilarious! Thanks, I needed it!!
This is Helarious! To bad pregnancy brain never leaves. Atleast for me. I once got into my car after being in a store (without locking it) to find my seat, steering wheel and mirrors all adjusted differently. No doubt someone got in the wrong car but figured it out before I got there. Thank goodness, I don’t think I would have approached them like this lady did. I would have kept walking and called security.
O.M.G.!!!!!!! That is the funniest thing I have heard in a VERY long time!!!!!! I’m so glad you kept your sense of humor about it
that is so funny!! i bet you felt a little crazy too! i did the same thing last week at the ballfield but didn’t get in..just tried too! ha. thanks for the good laugh! much love and blessings~ erin
You sure your not MY SISTER from another mother!!!LOL!!! This has happen to me before, but this was a DOG!!!!Our family dog who was KNOWN for burrowing under a fence, or jumping the fence, would sometimes escape and we would have to wrestle him back to the yard. This particular day “our dog” SO I THOUGHT had gotten out. I spied “our dog” several blocks from the house as I was on my way to work! We live near a very busy intersection and i did not want the poor dog to get hit nor kids to come home and find “butterscotch” ran over by a car.
I yelled out the window to get the dog’s attention and he just kept trotting!! Getting a little TEED OFF, I put the car in park, and yelled at “butterscotch” to stop! again! The dog looked at me momentarily and kept it’s steady pace. I jumped out and screamed at it again and it “quickened it’s pace”! I also quickend mine and caught up to it, caught it by the collar and dragged the VERY RELENTING dog back to my awaiting car!! The whole time, I’m using some “choice words”, and wondering where “the dog had been to get THAT dirty and not to mention STINKING TO HIGH HEAVEN!! I wrangle the dog up and opened the backdoor and shoved it in the backseat! I in turn got in the car, turned back towards the house, VERY upset, VERY sweaty, and smelling like a stinking dog! Meanwhle, the dog is whining and trying desperately to get out ! I’m steady fussing and cussing at the poor dog and just as I get a block away from our house, here comes the REAL BUTTERSCOTCH trotting back to the house and promptly snuggles under the fence back to our yard! I stop instantly and say outloud…well if that is butterscotch…than WHO THE HECK (for a lack of a better word) dog I have in the backseat!! I turn around slowly and the poor dog is panting, stanking and with his head cocked to one side (envision the RCA dog) looking back at me like “TOLD YA”!!!! I open the door and that dog bolted out the backseat like he was on fire!!! LOL!!!! I was teased for months about this!! The dog was the same breed, color and even had a collar similar to my dog!! Thank goodness the poor dog was not vicious!!!
I claim the phrase: Sister from a different Mister.
That is funny! BUT, yesterday when you Twittering, someone did reply, “Are you sure its your car?” I remember reading that! Sorry it took so long, darn. Thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh!
Haha…we had a tan trailblazer and that happened to me twice! Once I ran out of a store needing about 26 cents for a purchase, ran up to “my ” car and unlocked it, got the money from the console and started running back inside. The fob was not locking the door so I had to go back and see why….not my car! The second time we were at Target, coincidentally, and I opened the hatch and put my stuff in there opened the back door and no baby seat! It took a few more seconds to realize it wasn’t mine either! Morale of these stories….lock your car!
That is hysterical! I would have been so embarrassed too.
Oh my goodness!! this is the funniest story i have read in a long time! pregnacy brain, that is hilarious! Love your blog….
I know it probably wasn’t funny at the time, but that is the funniest thing I have heard all week
Totally made me laugh. Glad it all turned out okay!
When you were tweeting this yesterday, I totally asked myself, “I wonder if the car owner saw her?” So funny. I hope the ‘real’ owner will be able to laugh about this. I mean, it’s so funny. Did you tell the police officer you’d spent 30 minutes trying to start a strangers car?
Haha! Too funny, but you knew that…:-)
I have a friend who seems to always have a story like this to tell. She has the strangest “luck” of anyone I’ve ever met, seriously, something like this happens to this woman almost every day. She should write a book.
I can’t imagine the feeling the moment you realized why that woman was looking so sour… oh, my… so glad it all worked out in the end!
My husband and our then 5 year old took a trip to a local home improvment store bought hundreds of dollars worth of wood and proceeded to load it into the back of what he thought was his truck… right up until he tried to unlock the doors and get in. He then had to unload all of the wood back onto the cart and into the back of HIS truck. He said all he kept thinking was “please don’t let the person who owns this truck come out while I’m doing this”. Our daughter loves this story…almost as much as the story about the time Daddy got a speeding ticket with her in the car.
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That. Is. HILARIOUS.
That is the best pregnancy moment I have ever read!!! Thanks for that…I mean..sorry you had to go through that, but still a giggle and a memory you’ll never forget!!
that’s crazy! glad all worked out.
And then there was last fall at work, they were putting a new roof on our building and so there were lots of men on the roof, I went out to get in “my” car, that was in “my” space and stood there punching the unlock button on my keys over and over again, nothing happened…..about that time I hear “Hey lady, that’s not your car” when I looked up there were about 30 construction workers lined up at the edge of the building dying of laughter…..then I remembered that when I got to work that morning some fool had been parked in my usual slot….and I had to park up the hill……wouldn’ t you think I would have noticed it was a vehicle just like mine….obviously not….and I was not pregnant nor had small children….maybe age does that too…or wait…maybe I just had my head someplace it didn’t belong…..ha
Just a couple weeks ago I followed a lady out of Wal-Mart that had a big red wagon in her cart, I followed her all the way to “my” car and thought, “she’s going to have a hard time putting that in there”….but no, she puched her key and opened the back right up….it was NOT my car, thank goodness she was in front of me…..
Oh my! I just giggled and giggled. I did almost the same thing…only I had a cart full of children. I stopped at my car put my key in the door – and my oldest says (he’s 6 years old) “Mom, why are you trying to unlock a strangers car?” The car wouldn’t unlock and after I glanced in the back seat and no car seats, I calmly walked away embarrassed and red.
Sitting here grinning and shaking my head…
I have no words…hehehehe…well except that !
Kim
That was too funny! Thanks for sharing!!
This is too FUNNY!! I could not quite laughing! You are such a great story teller.
My husband has an uncle who lives in a very small town in NC. So small they actually all leave the keys in their ignitions. Needless to say he came out of the bank one day and drove off in an identical car…oops! He realized it and returned quickly, but the other driver was furious. LOL.
Hilarous! And all on one page— I love it!
This is so funny and brought back lots of memories!!! My dads ex girlfriend and I did the same thing once at Target in Fargo. Nothing locked up on us though thank god and the persons whos car it was never saw us in it. Then a couple of years ago I went to bring my kids to bball camp and got into this girls car and I went to put the key in and thought I didnt have these things hanging in my car. I looked around the parking lot, while still in her car, and saw my car a few spots away. I quickly got out and made sure no one saw me! Too funny!!!
best. story. ever. You totally made my day yesterday on Twitter.
Thanks for the morning laugh!! That’s a great story that you all will be telling and laughing about for a long time to come!!
Thanks for the wonderful laugh! On this gray gloomy day I really needed something to brighten my morning.
Hahaha, that is priceless! If it makes you feel any better, I think we have all had moments similar to that one! (:
That’s even more hilarious than following you via Twitter yesterday!!
Last night after my 7th graders band concert, we got in our van and my husband couldn’t get his key to budge. Thankfully it did after about 2 minutes, but as we sat there, I couldn’t help but think of you and this story!!
LOL!!
That is the best story I have heard in a long time!!
Priceless! Pregnancy Brain???? Not sure if that is completely the issue, more like mothers/wifes/woman’s brain! We have so much going on in our lives its hard to be focused on any one thing anymore. I sometimes am so distracted that I can’t even remember how I got to work. Scary……… but I got there! Paying attention is getting harder and harder the older I get! Funny, funny story, tho!
That’s hilarious!!
Ok, no joke, this happened to my friend yesterday except she was driving my car. She kept telling me that she was at the correct car because her purse was in it, which it was, but only because after unsuccessfully starting “my car” she locked the doors and went back inside to ask for help. So once she actually found my car, her purse was locked in a complete stranger’s car at a downtown office building. She left a note on the car saying “My purse is in your car, please call me and I will explain.” Too funny!! Stranger did call and she got her purse back last night.
No way!!!!!!!!! That is SO funny!!!
thank you for such a delightful story.
I laughed so hard I cried. Thanks so much for keeping it real. Something similar happened to me years ago while pregnant with my first. When I remember that day I can’t help, but laugh. Its a funny memory now, but at the time I was so embarrassed!
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Now that’s funny AND SOOOOOOO something I would do!!!! I can’t believe you are going to be in Dallas…2 hours from me and I don’t get to have a you take our photos! Have fun!!!!!
OMGosh..I was on an email list where we only emailed in haikus. It was hysterical at times and difficult at others. oohh…maybe a contest for Not Me Monday – do your submission in the form of a haiku.
Anyway – so sorry that happened to you but, man, I got a heck of a laugh out of it. The worst I ever did when I was pregnant was eat someone else’s lunch in the work fridge.
When I was 14 my Aunt drove us to the store in her 1977 orange colored Chevy Malibu and same thing happened couldn’t get the key to start after 20 minutes of trying we figured since it was 12 years old it was just dead and we’d walk home until we realized someone else had the same crappy rusted out car with a broken door handle, we all quickly ran out of the car before the owner arrived and laughed all the way home.
Gosh I needed that laugh. I’m sorry you had to go through all that at the time. BUT, Man on man what a GREAT HIlARIOUS STORY!!!
I have done that same thing … gotten into someone else’s car. But it wouldn’t start. And then I realized my husband was listening to some really funky CDs, and then I realized they were not our CDs and I was not in my car. My car was next to that one. But I would swear (only I don’t) that MY key opened that one up.
Oh, and I was NOT pregnant at the time. So rest easy. You are in very good company if I do say so myself.
My good friend just had something similar, but kind of opposite, happen. She was in her OWN car, getting her baby out of the car seat, and a woman ran up them screaming “OMG! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? GET OUT OF MY CAR!!!!” lol
And I was going to ask that about the comments, MckMama. Sometimes they don’t have reply buttons, and sometimes even when they do the comment doesn’t show up under the one you replied too. And why don’t we get email notifications anymore when someone responds to out comments? … Also, why did everyone not like disquis? What made it a hassle? I just came on the blog and was able to comment, just like here.
Way to funny. At least you can laugh about it now. I have done the exact same thing and unfortunately it was a very hot day, so sitting there trying to figure out why the car wouldn’t start, was very unpleasant. Funny how we don’t even notice that nothing in the car is remotely similar to anything in our own car.
Oh no! That totally bites! I did that once…I drove a ’91 Honda Civic and I was vaguely aware that there was an identical one that showed up from time to time in the parking lot I parked in at work (at a mall). One snowy winter’s ever I came out to about six inches of snow on the cars. I started trudging down the aisle where I knew I had parked my car and was surprised when I came across it sooner than I expected. I used my arm to brush off all the snow from the back, the sides, the front, the bumpers, the windshield, even the roof as much as I could manage. I even noted with amusement that I had a rear windshield wiper that I hadn’t known about (REALLY should have been my first clue) and resolved to figure out how to use it, chastising myself for being thick enough to have not noticed it before (I’d owned the car for at least a year at that point). Then I got in, tried to start it, it wouldn’t start. I started to panic, looked around, realized that the car was a LOT cleaner than normal…and it suddenly occured to me that it wasn’t my car. Horribly embarrassed, I jumped out and scurried away, constantly glancing over my shoulder in fear that the owner of the car would see me.
Oh my goodness that is too funny. I completely understand this though! The other day I walked out of Lowe’s and tried to get in the wrong car. (Same make model and color as mine) and luckily my unlock button didn’t work. I’ve never done anything like that before and totally make fun of my mom for always going to the wrong car in a parking lot. I totally blamed it on pregnancy brain. I always thought pregnancy brain was kind of a joke, but seriously I can’t tell you how many ridiculous things I have done. The extra embarassing ones are the ones at work since I’m known to normally have a level head. Craziness! Thanks for sharing your ordeal and know that you are not alone!!
This is soooooo funny!! And not at the same time, you poor thing, I would’ve been freakin!! lol
Thanks for the giggle!
Oh man, that’s funny and sad at the same time!
Glad it all worked out okay!!! And you know with 4 small
children and being pregnant, of course you wouldn’t be paying
attention to anything inside the car except the ignition to get it started!
You poor girl!
tara
What a hoot!!! Your blog is Fantastic, love it!!
Oh my word. That’s the best pregnancy brain story I’ve ever heard! And here lately, all the men I know have been trying to tell me that pregnancy brain is not real! Pshaw! They’ve never been pregnant so of course they would think that!
Glad you got it all worked out and didn’t get taken to jail.
oh no poor you
that must have been so stressful for both of you! YIKES!
Kinda like thinking someone is waving at you, you wave back, to find that they are waving at someone else…or worse.
Ha ha, thanks for the funny story! Though I’m not sure you thought it was so funny when it was happening…It’s a good one to laugh with now!
this embarrassing story tops almost all of my embarrassing stories! so glad i’m not the only one!
OMG!! I was laughing out loud at that one!!! So funny!!!
That is pretty bad. We have a Honda Odyssey, very common car. Just this week, I got to it at the same time as another lady and she wanted to argue with me that it was hers. I guess I won the car war this time!
oh my word… I have pregnancy brain right now too, but I would be MORTIFIED if something like this happened to me. And I wouldn’t have the wherewithall to actually explain what happened in a way that would make that lady believe I was serious. I’m so glad she was atleast patient enough to hear you out! Talk about a day!
I have a similar story..several years ago I had a Chrysler Town and Country minivan..It was parked in my work parking lot..the local car wash/ oil change store was to pick it up and clean it and change the oil..they picked up my key but when I checked later it was still in the parking lot..it seems while I was wondering when they were going to pick up my car another employee in a different part of the hospital was calling the police to report her car stolen..as it turns out my key and clicker opened the doors to her car and also worked in the ignition..her car was the same make and color..the car wash/oil change place had taken her car by mistake..cleaned it and changed her oil leaving my car in the parking lot..can you imagine having two cars keyed alike both bought new and both working in the same hospital!!!!!!!
Oh my GOSH, you had me in stitches. I have to admit I have done that but, got just as far opening the door to the car that didn’t belong to me before realizing something was wrong. What a funny story and unique way to meet new people.
Sherri
Sadly, a very similar thing happened to me. And I was much younger. And not pregnant. I? Am just an idiot. In my case, it was freezing outside and I figured it out before the owner actually showed up, but still. Embarrasing.
Way too funny! Thanks for sharing this… it started my day with a laugh!!!
Yet another reason to always lock your car doors when you park it somewhere…haha
If anyone got in my little car, the crap piled everywhere would clue them in right away!
That is TOO FUNNY! I thought once you said “at least I remembered which house was ours” that you had gotten into the wrong car! I know it wasn’t funny to you at all during the whole ordeal but I have been laughing ever since your tweet about the house! I do crazy silly things like that ALL THE TIME and I am not pregnant! Therefore when other people do them it is such a relief to me and I find it so very funny! Plus, if we can’t laugh at ourselves then who can we laugh at??
I’ve actually done the same thing! I was at Costco and I opened up the back of a ladies van, which was the same make and model as my van, to load my groceries and there sat a lady in the driver seat horrified. I felt so stupid. I remember being confused when I saw a cooler in the back seat but it didn’t all come together until she asked me what in the — I thought I was doing! Don’t sweat it, it happens to the best of us…
Ha-Ha!