October 12, 2004

• life is always an adventure. 

  
  

  so my mom called me an hour or 2 ago and asked me to mow the front yard.  i wasn't really in the mood so i procrastinated for a while then finally went out to get the chore done with so i wouldn't have to hear her nag.  rolled the stupid machine out into the front...i was almost finished when it ran out of gas.. i walked up the driveway and what should i find but that the gate had somehow slammed shut.  our gate only opens from the inside and it used to be that it practically took one of those guys from the power team to get the lock in place but today--apparently not the case. 

  
  

  went across the street to kat's house to ask joni (her mom) if they had a key to our house.  well, yah..they have a key to our house and just about everyone else's on this street as well as for relatives and other friends..and none of them are labeled.. tried these 2 that were on a summa key chain--logical...my mom works for summa.  neither of them worked on the front or the side door.. so i took it back and told joni that i'd just try to get the gate open somehow.  she said she'd keep looking for another summa key chain cuz she thought she remembed it being on one...

  
  

  well, i came back to my house and only God knows why there was a snow shovel leaning against the side of the house at the beginning of autumn, perhaps only for today's adventure..i took it back, put it over the side of the gate, which is about 7 feet tall prolly, and was standing there tryin to see thru the fraction-of-a-centimeter-wide cracks between the fence/gate wooden planks..or whatever the friggen name of those things is..the whole time i was just imagining a cop coming down the street, seeing me tryin to break into the back yard, all of my neighbors mysteriously gone so as no one around to ID me..and having to try to explain to the cop y i was holding a snow shovel over the fence.. 

  
  

  so i was standing there just messing with the gate.. went to pull on it and via some sort of miracle it finally opened.  i got all excited.. went and got the gas for the lawn mower, finished the last strip of grass and came inside.  joni came over not long after i'd made my grand break-in to check out her collection of keys.  when she figured out which key opens my door, i made a mental note for the next time i get locked out. haha...

  
  

  fun fun times.. i'm so glad i can laugh about it all 

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