Tiny Bubbles
When I told this story to my son, his response was “only you Mom”. I don’t know, maybe he is right, I do tend to get myself into to some odd, sometimes funny predicaments. I assure you this predicament was not funny to me at the time.
Everyone knows how it works, you fill up the gas tank and get a car wash. Use to be a “free” carwash, but I guess that was back in the day so to speak. So I pay for my discounted car wash and proceed to enter my code. Everything is suds and bubbles, just fine, by the way I did take note of the big sign on the exit of the carwash that says “Blow Horn if Door Does Not Open”. I think wow, I feel sorry for the poor schmuck who has that happen!
Well meet the poor schmuck. It happened to me! I was stuck in the car wash. Ok, when you finish laughing, I will finish my story. So the wash cycle was complete and the light to pull forward comes on and you guessed it, the door is not opening. Water is spraying for the final rinse and the dryers are on and I can’t pull forward. In blind faith, I blow the horn. I wait, almost laughing at myself for this happening to me, but there is no response from the gas attendant. I blow the horn again, a little longer this time, thinking they must not hear me. Waiting again. No response. Ok, it has been 5 minutes. I blow the horn even longer and I wait. My best friend calls, we laugh because I am stuck in the car wash, and I tell her I will call her back. I am a bit flustered now, I blow the horn once more–loud and long–no response.
So I am weighing my options. If I get out, I am sure it will be bad. I just know I will initiate a wash cycle and get soaked, and although that could be a funny sight, at this point, I am not laughing. If I get out and try and lift the door I could initiate the drying cycle again, and that could be worse than getting soaked. Beyond that, I am not too keen on leaving my car in there to go for help. What is a girl to do? Well this girl is married and so I called my husband (thank goodness I had my cell phone). When he stopped laughing he searched the computer for the phone number of the gas station. I am sure he got a good laugh, but he was concerned for me and made me promise to call him as soon as I got out of the car wash. So I called the station and the attendant came right away and opened the door. She apologized over and over, by this time it had been 15 minutes I was stuck, and gave me free passes to the car wash for my trouble. Okay, not sure that I will be using those but I could always give them to somone I don’t like (not really).
After the ordeal, I called my hubby to let him know that I was safe and yes, we had a good laugh. I asked him what else could I have done? He suggested that if I had been unable to reach him on the phone that I could have called 911. Yeah, after giving me a lecture on uneccesary emergency calls, I am sure those guys would have had a good laugh as well. Only me…