We can't leave home without it. Now, I can be a real complete and total airhead alot of the time. It's nothing new. So I put all my stuff in the car, and head to work. Stopped at Burger King on the way, since it was almost lunchtime anyway. Then proceeded to head to work. Well about two hours later, I realized the blanket was GONE! Nowhere. Vanished into thin air. I totally panicked.
1) because it's Makayla's favorite blanket, and
2) it's my favorite blanket
and 3)my good friend Cara made it and spent alot of time on it.
I cried.
Then thought...I bet it just fell off the roof of the car in our parking lot at home. So I drove ALL the way back, the way I came, looking all along Main Street the entire way, in case it blew off somewhere. No blanket. I drove down Main Street THREE times. And cried again.
Crying over a little blanket you might ask?
Yes. I did.
Then I thought...wait a second. I didn't check Burger King. So I drove into BK, looked all around and in the drive through...nothing. So I decided to just go in and check to see if it had by any chance been turned in. The odds of it making it to BK from our house are astronomical. It's like 8 blocks. But sure enough...I asked, and they said..is it kinda small, and has rounded edges? YAY!! That's it!! Then they warned me that it was quite dirty...it had been run over. I didn't even care. I just wanted it back.
So i went home and scrubbed the heck out of it forever with some Oxi-Clean, and it is now soaking. Any tips on what else I can do to get out parking lot/tire crap would be appreciated.
But we have the precious blanket back. And all is well in the world.
5 comments:
Wow! I'm so glad you found it!!! That's amazing.
Oxy-Clean gets everything clean, in my experience. Sometimes I have to soak stuff for a day and a half but it always works! I hope it works on road junk.
All that for a little blanket - you are amazing! I hope Makayla appreciates what you go through for her - haha!
This is something I would totally do. I feel like a lost a LOT of my short term memory during pregnancy and it hasn't returned... It wasn't until about 4months pregnant that I started doing some of the retarded things I do now.... trying to mail things w/out stamps, or addresses for that matter, leaving things on the roof of my car, leaving things burning on the stove... What will we do with ourselves?
P.S. Hadn't been to the BK in like 6 years plus before John and I stumbled in to their on our way back from Moab last month... Well I had chicken fries in buffalo sauce and I've had them about 2 more times since then... mmmm... there's ANOTHER thing to add to the list of things I wish I didn't like!
You all have no idea how often i leave stuff on the roof of my car. MOST of the time i remember just before driving off. But obviously not all the time.
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