i’ve been told that mercury is in retrograde.  supposedly, and if you believe in that sort of thing, when mercury is in retrograde, things just go wrong.   last night, we blamed everything on mercury.
it went like this:
dena locked her keys in her car while it was running.
i called AAA from mel’s phone  and then went inside to find my phone in case they called back.
my phone was missing.
dena’s phone was locked in her running car.
mel’s phone was dying.
we used mel’s phone to call shannan and see if my phone was in her car, which it was.  dena called her boyfriend to tell him the situation, and that she wasn’t coming home.  i got directions to shannan’s house, 45 minutes away.
but i couldn’t find my keys. i didn’t look too hard, because i had driven shannan’s car to the restaurant. i just used my spare keys, which i keep conveniently, in my jeep.
i drove and drove and drove to go get my phone.
when i got back to mel’s, AAA had come and gone, everyone was asleep, and i was locked out.
in the morning, i got up and started looking for my first set of keys.  i couldn’t leave without them because they had my house key.
i called shannan.  of course they were also in her car.  i drove all the way back.
and then i drove all the way home.
damn it, mercury.  it’s not funny any more!