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laramie at 03:59pm on 17/10/2018It was past 10p.m. It was dark and cold and I was tired. I did not want to spend more time at work, hunting for places where the keys might have fallen out of my pocket. (In one of several different bathrooms?) But maybe I'd left them locked in the car? What would I do? How would I get home? Oh, yeah. I could call AAA...
I kept walking toward the car, hoping I'd be able to see in the dark whether the keys were still in the ignition. As I neared the corner I noted a car's lights; it was parked near mine. I reached the corner. It was my car, waiting there with all lights ablaze.
OMG! It was a miracle the battery hadn't run down. I tried the door. The f***ing car was unlocked! What's more, the heat was on... the engine was running!! Oh My God. I'd left the keys in the ignition, the car running, the door unlocked on a high traffic street ALL DAY. Eight+ hours while I worked my shift. And it was still there. God is real.
But how irresponsible could I be? I must have wasted a whole tank of gas. It was a miracle if there was enough gas left to get me home. Nope; the tank was only down by an eighth. I got in, enjoying the fact that I didn't have to wait for my hands to adjust to an icy cold steering wheel, and drove home.
Oh, I failed to mention how horrified I was that I could have been so absent minded as to have walked away from the car in the first place, leaving it unlocked with keys in the ignition and engine running. Talk about senior moments. (After 5 days without my asthma meds, fighting a cold, dosed with cold medicine, stressed out about job hunting, etc.) I choose to think this good luck was a testement to the effectiveness of the Security Presence we have created in the neighborhood.