Two days after Scarlett's Unfortunate Enclosation, we were on the way to our new favorite casino. The Pony was in the back seat, and I was trapped beside Farmer H. That's because my knees don't like the back seat, or I would gladly give The Pony the honor of riding shotgun.
We had gone about five miles when talk turned to Scarlett's trauma on Sunday, being closed in the garage for 4 1/2 hours.
"Yeah. And when I backed out to take the car to get gas this morning, I ran over a dog bed and a folding chair that she drug out!"
"What? We don't have a dog bed."
"Well. A cat bed, maybe. I don't know where we got it. Somebody gave it to us."
"Dad. She probably wanted something to lay on that wasn't the cold concrete floor."
"Folding chair? You mean like a lawn chair?"
"No. A metal folding chair. I think I brought it from the locker."
"I don't think Scarlett was planning to sit on a folding chair. She had a bed, you know! It must have been piled where it fell off. It probably scared her."
"She shouldn't have been messing with stuff. That's why I keep the garage doors closed."
"Too bad you closed her INSIDE the closed doors."
"She was hidin' in there."
"I doubt that. Wait! You backed over a metal folding chair? Are the tires okay? I don't want to have a flat and have to sit beside the highway. Did you check the air in the tires before we left?"
"The tires are fine, HM. I checked."
"No you didn't!"
"I drove to town and back, and they were just fine."
Farmer H has no qualms about stating something as truth when he knows it's not.
4 comments:
Really Farmer H?? EVERYBODY knows to check behind the car before backing out! Tsk Tsk.
River,
A-Cad even has A BACKUP CAMERA!!! A screen right there by the radio controls, that shows what's behind the car when you put it in reverse! T-Hoe doesn't even have a backup beeper (that works), but A-Cad has a fully-functioning backup camera!
My car has a back-up camera, but HeWho won't look at it, preferring to twist around and look out the back window an complain that the mirrors are dirty! I clean the house and do all the household chores, so I refuse to be shamed into cleaning the car!!
Kathy,
T-Hoe has a backup beeper, but it hasn't worked for at least 10 years! If I had a camera, the Entitled Generation would be much safer on parking lots.
Good for you, refusing to be a car-maid!
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