Comments on: Always wear clean underwear

By: MamaGeph

MamaGeph — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:17:13 +0000

Lol – Times like that always make me want to go home and polish my Mother of the Year award. And then have a good stiff drink.

I done tagged you over at my blog, Jodi. Have fun!

By: LammyAnn

LammyAnn — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:36:21 +0000

Yeah… it never fails when one’s at their worst that the worst will happen.
*sigh*
sorry pal.

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:30:39 +0000

Hi Jody,
You have a gift for telling a story that so many of us can relate to. I worked for years in an auto shop and could tell you plenty of similar stories about cars that behave “oh so nicely” once they are within sight of a mechanic . The standard line on the repair order was “check cause of intermittent no start” Not too comforting is it?
(Fuel pumps have sure gone up in price since I was working! Yikes!!)
xo

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:39:39 +0000

Perhaps the donuts dunked in rum may have been appropriate?

Glad it wasn’t an accident- whew. That was the first thought that crossed my mind when I read the title.

By: Pastormac's Ann

Pastormac's Ann — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:05:34 +0000

OK, I shouldn’t be laughing at your misfortune…so I’m just chuckling under my breath.

What a bummer for you. Cars/vans, etc. – are just pits to throw $$ into over and over again.

I once got stranded by a cruddy van and hand to hitch-hike home with four of my kids – it was either that or walk. I figured I’d take my chances and made it home alright.

We’ve been stuck by more cars than I care to count.

Did the donuts make it home OK?

Jody: Those donuts are HISTORY!!

By: Blaine @ 5McCKids

Blaine @ 5McCKids — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:16:38 +0000

That is SOOOO the kind of thing that would happen to me! Oh wait, it did. A few months back, while I was required to wear a boot for a VERY BAD high ankle sprain and had only been allowed to bear weight on it for about a week, my tire blew about a mile from my house. Do you think I had my cell phone with me? Hell no! I didn’t even have my purse. I was wearing pajamas and one slipper, Grace had only her PJ top and a diaper on (I got her out of bed about 30 seconds before we left, and she had wet through the bottoms), and Justin was wearing no shoes. We had to walk/limp/be carried the whole mile home. I would have been mortified if I wasn’t in such terrible pain by the time we got home. I called Will at work, 25 miles away, in tears. I didn’t care how, but her had to fix it; and it had to be done in time to get the big kids at 2:45pm. Being the saint that he is, he called AAA, arranged for them to pick the kids and I up from our house (after we had enough time to put appropriate clothes on) and take us back to the car so we could watch the nice man change our tire. Justin thought it was a great adventure. Me…not so much!

Jody says: Now that sounds very humbling. walking in jammies with your kids down the road for a mile beats our ordeal by a….mile.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:27:55 +0000

Is it bad that I am laughing? But I am only laughing because that has happened to me more times than I care to remember.

I am glad you all got home safely.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:10:07 +0000

Sounds like a good excuse to buy a new van! That kind of uncertainty in automobiles makes me nervous. Glad you can laugh about it. I can just see you holding the dog and the princess! Funny!!

By: Leeann

Leeann — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:45:29 +0000

You never fail to make me laugh, or smile, or bring tears to my eyes.
I love your blog.
I could picture every moment of today’s entry.

I raise my glass to you, cheers!

Leeann

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:16:38 +0000

nothing like that *ever* happens to us!

the day I went out to get the mail in slippers and jammies was the day I accidentally locked us all out of the house…

glad everyone got home safe!