Sunday, November 1, 2009

Panic Attack

Panic mode set in on Saturday morning.

We had been out to DQ for breakfast....yes, they have great biscuits and gravy. From there he took me back to where my car was parked since I had gone to Bloomington after him in the truck.

I got into my car with my grocery list and off to Walmart I go. As I got out of the car and started to clip my keys onto my purse handle like normal. I stopped dead in my tracks. Opened the car door again and searched.

There were to supposed to be 4 sets of keys on that key ring, and there were only two. Where were the other two sets? The truck keys and my office keys were missing.
WHERE OH WHERE WERE THEY?

Since he was still at the place he dropped me off at I ask him to go back to where I was parked and see if they were on the ground. He said calm down, it will all work out......I know my blood pressure was way up. I was in a huge panic mode.

Now if it had only been the truck keys it wouldn't have been so bad but I was missing my work keys.....

I did not want to go into the office and tell my boss that I had lost this whole set of keys.

Bud declared they were not at the place where my car was parked. And I remember reaching for them to open the side door of the truck when we left the DQ. So where oh where were they. I climbed back into the car and went toward the DQ ---retracing my steps. I even went inside and ask if someone had found a couple sets of keys. As I had two sets missing.

As I was leaving the DQ empty handed my phone rang and Bud wanted to know if there was a reward for some missing keys. He had looked at the wrong spot when he looked for them. (NOW this guy had just dropped me off to pick up my car less then 15 minutes before and he forgot where I had parked)? Yes, he had found them....Thank You Dear Jesus. Now calm my heart down and help me settle down.

So back to Walmart I go to do my grocery shopping. Only I added a couple more of these key chains to the list. They now all have their own clip on key chain holder and are clipped to the handle of my purse. I don't care what people think, I do not want to loose any of these keys again.

This will allow me to remove only the set that I need at the time I need them. And it also reminds me that I need to go get a set made of the house keys here and hide them in the furnace room or in my portion of the storeage in the laundry room.
You have to have keys to get into the building and into the apartment. I could always sit outside and wait for someone to come home to let me into the building.
Since there is a $25.00 fee if they have to come let us in if we lock ourselves out of the building.

2 comments:

Linda said...

Verna I know that feeling when you think you have lost your keys, or your cell phone, or your purse...Yikes, it is a panic attack of sorts.

Maybe people will think you are a janitor, (janitor-ess) ha! with that many keys dangling from your purse, but who cares right? ((smile)) At least you won't lose them as easily and you can say good-bye to the panic syndrome!

Love ya, Linda @ Truthful Tidbits

Vicky said...

Ugh! Its a horrible feeling and then all you can do is obsess over where they could be. Glad it turned out well! I used to worry the most about locking the kids in the car :)