Friday, December 7, 2007

The Night I Locked Myself Out of My Own Car

I was searching for my shoes one night, in my car,parked in the basement. (Yes, I am a lady, so collecting shoes is not a sin, neither leaving some beutiful high heels and stilettos in the car for the just-in-case-i-want-to-feel-how-its-like-to-break-my-heels moments ).

So I was searching, frantically, and I switched on the engine to switch on the light of the inside of the car, and after 10 minutes..

There I found it!

So I was so happy to hold it in one hand and hold my phone and keys in the other, swiftly I shut close the door of my car with my butt altogether with an award-winning smile.

Suddenly it caught me that my engine is still running.

I pulled the door handle lah to open my car and get my keys out altogether with switching off the engine, but it just won't budge. Funny, I thought. Its stuck.

Well, it took me more than a minute to realise that what these smart alex japanese people did was (yes, its always lovely to blame others) to put this stewpit autolock as soon as you start the car engine. How could they! Waarghh!

I rode up the lift to the 8th floor to my home where I pulled together my courage to tell my parents. They dropped their jaws, but eventually took it calmly.. with a lot of iman

They shared words of wisdom between them which goes " oh my god, only Irma can do that" and to me, "dont you ever do it again, promise?!" and "this is the last key", also "i hope you learned your lesson" . I surely did.

My heart sank and dropped and ironed as I quickly run to the car before some smartass kopak my car door and run away with it. I looked up heavenwards as I succeded before I gave a flyin kiss to my dusty ol' faithful kia rio with love and much more