What a day and it’s not even half over!
This morning Squidge and I went to Head over Heels again. We were supposed to meet Victoria and Byrney. Unfortunately V had some sort of fender bender so she couldn’t make it. We bumped into loads of people we knew. Squidge had a great time.
I on the other hand have aged 10 years. I thought I lost her. One minute she was by the giant slide in the big kids section and the next she was gone. I looked and looked and looked for her and I couldn’t find her. I crawled and shimmied all over the damn place looking for her and I couldn’t find her. I then went to the place where we usually play and still couldn’t find her so I turned to Byrney and Andrea and burst into tears. They knew I had been looking for her and when I said I still couldn’t find her and started crying they jumped into action (cue action music) Byrney who apparently knows my child better than I do made a bee-line for the cafe and in about 2 minutes had found her. Quietly, calmly sitting at someones table. What was she doing? Nothing, apparently. Just sitting there. OH.MY.GOD.Y’ALL!! That was the worst feeling ever. We played for a bit longer then decided that mama needed some food and we all headed out to McD’s.
When I got home do you know what I found?? Come one any guesses?? Ooh I know that you know what I found. I’ll wait while you think.……
dooo doo
deeee deee doooo
duuum deeedy duuuum
ditty ditty
so did you guess correctly??
Can you freaking believe it?!!?! It’s like some sort of sick joke. Are they reading this blog and just f&%king with me? I called the traffic police again and I also called the council. AAaargh! I know nothing is going to happen but I just want them to have a record of this on file. I’m thinking they don’t know it’s a problem because no one ever calls. Well I’M calling!! Grrr!! So an old couple got in the car before the police got there. I opened the door and said ‘I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t park there in the future as you’re blocking my drive’. to which the old lady apologized. I was too pissed off to be nice and just told her I was sure she was sorry and just closed the door. I didn’t shout. I didn’t slam the door. I didn’t do all the hugely violent things I wanted to do. So I’m getting really tired of posting about this but I do want to put out a challenge. “You Know Who” and Vic got me thinking… I should put a letter on their windshield/screen. Soo kindly people of blogoshere help me write this letter. I’d like to be sarcastic and cutting without sounding rude and I don’t want to stoop to their level. I want to rip them a new a$$hole while sounding ooooh sooo very sweet. SO go forth and submit these letters. A prize will be given for the one used. you can send it to me at lindylala[at]gmail[dot]com
Oh Lindy! I’m sorry you lost Squidge. I feel your pain. We lost Oscar at the music festival for 5 mins. I was distraught.
My friend found him about 100m away, at the other side of about 4 marquees(all empty thank goodness). V V scary.
Gutted I missed out on the day. Car is now being fixed, and hire car didn’t arrive until 11.30… and it was the wrong one, so didn’t get the right one until 3.30. Oh joy.
I scraped the car while reversing at IC last Tuesday. £1K damage, apparently… OUCHY!
V x
I have to ask when the deadline is. This is the best contest EVER but I have to finish my novel. Just under 9,000 words to go and I want to finish by tomorrow.
Sorry you lost Squidge, glad you found her quickly… I know how terrifying that can be.
I only found her because I was able to think a bit calmly!! I certainly wouldn’t have been able to do that if it was Caitlin lost..you’d have been doing the finding! Plus you were caught up in looking where you’d last seen her. Just glad we found her.
Grrr at the parked car. No good at sarcastic letters! B
Glad you found her in the end. I would have been completely besides myself! Damned frightening!
Wow — talk about terrifying. I thought I lost Youngest Daughter once, and I’ll never forget the feeling. Glad everything turned out okay.
About the parked car, an insurance adjuster friend of mine suggested once how tragic it is when cars parked illegally have someone else’s keys “accidentally” scraped against their car door. It’s especially tragic when the scrape is on the car door only, because a body shop can easily remove and repaint the door (they of course won’t repaint the whole car).
The consequence is that:
a) repainting a car door is often the same cost or less than the cost of a person’s insurance deductible, meaning the person essentially pays for the damage himself, and:
b) insurance companies generally won’t repaint the whole car if the door is the only thing damaged. And after the door is painted, it usually sticks out like a sore thumb afterward, because a freshly painted car door rarely matches the rest of the car perfectly, especially on a dark coloured car.
Just sayin’. Of course, I’m a person who has little or no conscience when it comes to that sort of thing.
You need to get some cheap greasy lipstick and learn to write backwards on the windshield:
Stop blocking my driveway, you senseless idiot!
Oh my! That is a scare. Squidge looks so big and adorable. I love that little face. I didn’t get my dose of her this a.m. and it threw my day off =( Miss you guys!
She looks like she owns the place!!
Can’t imainge how scary it was to lose her. Well, I can but it feels like throwing up frightening.. Blah! So glad she wa s all right. I often wonder what they are thinking and why they choose THAT spot to go to.. hhmm. Hope you were calm with her when you found her. My mom used to go balistic when she’d find me!! Always scary to be found as you can imagine.
The play area looks like FUN, Sorry you lost her, been there done that and its SCARY
We love Head Over Heels and its right in my ‘hood’
I say put cones in front of your driveway, or a chair, or better yet, sit in your driveway with a cone on your head in a morris dancing suit and scare people away.
I can not get over the fact that people just don’t notice that they are parking over a driveway. Its shocking.
Also, didn’t you know the first rule of HoH??? Always look for a lost child in the cafe. Children make a beeline for food. I am glad you found her, I always lose my Noah when we are there…but no one ever wants to take him home!
ok, total nightmare on the losing thing, major happiness she is ok, and was just wandering.
And I’m so going to think about a letter, I’m REALLY good at that stuff… give me the weekend.
I would be a raging bitch if that kept happening to me.
What an awful day. I’m so sorry!