The Long Road .....

I have to say, my life has been a long road so far, with many twists and turns and diversions along the way (admittedly mostly self inflicted).

My theory, throughout all of my life, has been to laugh through most of it ..... laughter is the best medicine they say, and you know, I think whoever first said that was most certainly correct :D

Most things that happen in life have a humorous side.  For instance, after the usual stressed morning that happens on a daily basis in my household, I started the school run, after many "are you sure you have everything?" 's, I dropped my son off to get his school bus, in remarkably good time, and glanced at my petrol gauge, noticing with horror that the orange light was very much on, and that petrol level was at the lower part of the reserve tank!

After a quick mind flip of working out if I had enough money in the bank, and realising that I wouldn't have much at all until later in the day, I quickly rummaged through my purse and produced £7!!!  I giggled ... I felt like a school-kid who's pocket money was running out for some weird reason ... and then hot-pedalled the accelerator off to the petrol station so that I would have a chance of making it to my daughter's pick-up point for her school run.

At this point, a joke came to mind, which I couldn't remember in its entirety, but involved an Irishman with not much petrol who drove very fast to the petrol station so he could get there before his petrol ran out (think about it) :P

Once at the petrol station, I jumped out of the car (literally), and grabbed the unleaded hose, and was about to start to run the pump, when I realised I had the "super" unleaded hose :-s  ... very lucky escape, and semi-annoying that the hoses look exactly the same for the "super" and "regular" types, but hey-ho and off we go, and I very carefully inserted the pump and let it flow, trying very hard to keep to the £7 only, which in this day and age of ever increasing petrol prices, is a VERY HARD thing to do :P  But yay, I managed not to go over even by 1p :P

So, off I go to the kiosk to pay, which I did with not too much hassle other than a 3 person long queue, and then skipped jauntily back to my car and proceeded to open the door and get in......

It was at this point that I realised the car was minus my daughter!!!!  (shock ... horror!!!)

After a two second panic, I realised that my car was super clean!!!!  Wow, what had happened?

I stepped back a pace or two, and took in the whole picture .... shiny, red, clean, minus daughter ..... and at this point I dissolved into fits of hysterical giggling ..... WAS NOT MY CAR!!! :P  It was the one at the pump in front of mine hehehe.

I giggled my way to my own car, and opened the door, and heard some guffaws of laughter behind me .... The owner of the other car had noticed me trying to steal his car!!!   He said "you wouldn't have got far!"  as he dangled his keys from his hand :P  

I made some sort of muffled, embarrassed response while still giggling hysterically, jumped into my car, started up and drove out of the petrol station with a very, very red face!

I made it safely to my daughter's pick-up point without further mishap, but I can guarantee that there will be many of what my boyfriend calls "Chiggy Moments" to come throughout this day.  (Chiggy being my nickname - more on that later).

It was at this point, once home, that I thought I would start a blog to record all of the Chiggy moments in my life ..... hope you enjoy my many mishaps and manage to giggle along with me sometime :P