Being Stephanie
I wrote this comment to a blog buddy to make them feel better about a lock-out incident she blogged about. Then decided to make it a post of my own - strange things like this happen to me ALL THE TIME. It's part of being Stephanie.
The other winter I returned home from a
late work meeting, hubby was at work like usual. I pulled up and got
out to unlock out gate like usual. Because it was VERY cold out, like a
negative 10 degrees out, I had all the windows rolled up with my car still purringlike usual.
The
strange part was when I went to get back in my car, i touched the door
handle of my Ford Focus and I heard the doors LOCK themselves! It was
sooo weird (I later found out Ford Focus's are famous for doing this).
Well the car keys WITH my house keys where in the locked car that was
running. 
Luckily I had my cell phone in my coat pocket - but
it was going dead, I had just enough juice to call AAA and give them
rough directions to my place, a good 40 minutes outside of town, just
before my phone goes dead.
Since I wasn't exactly dressed for
the weather in my skirt and dress coat and nylons and dress shoes, I
immediately tried to find some shelter. I tried the horse trailer which
would have had blankets and a heater - but is was LOCKED! I never lock
it!! I later found out hubby was trying to do me a favor by locking it
up for the winter. Tried walking around to the back of the house
through 3 feet of snow, and all that earned me was a locked back door
and numb feet.
My neighbors were strangely gone and the one
that was home is deaf and asleep and could not hear my knocking even if
I tried. There is a fire station a quarter mile from my house but I
literally wouldn't have had any feet left by the time I got there.
I
decided to check the propane in the BBQ on the deck. THANK GOD there
was some. I lit the BBQ and cranked it up on high, grabbed a chair I
never put away for the winter and put my feet directly on the BBQ and
then when they finally got hot I switched to my hands which had also
gone numb.
About the time my eyes started to water and that
lump started to build in my throat 
, a AAA truck show up to unlock my
car - still running. The driver immediately sat me in the truck with
the heater cranked and even offered to drive me to the hospital - I
politely declined and limped back into my warm house.
I ended
up with frostbite on 3 of my toes on one foot and 2 on the other. But
it could've been much worse - so i am thankful of how things turned
out, but it is a prime example of the type of things that happen to me
all the time.
Welcome to my world. 