By Anonymous - 16/11/2009 20:10 - United States
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The rest of the story: I had my cellphone on me (I always do). I called a friend who lived close by who keeps a set of keys for us. She drove over while we sat in the garage (the car trunk was unlocked and I crawled through to get to the inside of the car, and I could get access to the garage door opener, but my husband had locked the inner door to the house - which is why I tried the garage door in the first place) waiting and listening to the monitor. I had grabbed a beer for solidarity, but wasn't really drinking it. I honestly don't like to drink very much since having the kids (obviously didn't drink while pregnant, either), but my husband is awesome and deserved some time off. So I grabbed beers for both of us so he would have one. Usually he just finishes my beer or it ends up getting poured out. The friend got there rather quickly (about 15 minutes) while my husband sat, drank his beer and wondered aloud which of his power tools he would use to cut through the garage wall into the house if the kids started crying (they never woke up). We got in, we laughed. I carry my keys in my pocket at all times now, and my husband doesn't think I'm weird for always having my cellphone on me anymore. It wasn't a crisis, but it sure did freak us out. We're pretty attentive parents, and these are the only kids we're ever going to have (I got my tubes tied after delivery - we figured that two kids would be one for each of us, 0 growth population and really all the kids we could ever take care of anyway), so sometimes the whole first parent thing can make one kind of dumb. Sleep is in short supply, but the kids are worth it.
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Oh lawdeh lawdeh did you break a door down?
If you live in a trailer like I imagine you do, just borrow a can opener from one of your neighbors and cut your wall open.
got brick?
Leaving your children alone to drink....you should be reported for child abuse/neglect/endangerment and sheer and utter stupidity
nice one that made me laugh
wtf is with all the people saying your bad parents or hill billies kinda references. they have two kids which I would imagine keep them busy, they have some quite time go out back on the deck (she also mentioned one beer they weren't getting drunk) to relax for once with out having little ones around, to just listen to the quite. my parents did that when I was a kid or when they were done with yard work and they are good parents. that's like saying any one that has one beer is automatically a bad person.
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My son thought he'd be cute and lock the car doors from the inside while I was pumping gas. Which would have been OK but I had set the keys on the dash. I was hysterical, I mean, it was July, and hot as hell. By the time the cops got there and let him out I was sure he was going to die from heat exposure. (He didn't, but I know how you feel.)
just cause it's happened or will happen to someone else doesn't mean it's not an FML