UT OH

So Monday was a normal work day. It started out with me getting in 7.5 miles that felt great. Towards the end of the day my wife calls and says they would like me to travel with them to my son’s lacrosse game. It is played in a city about 60 miles south of where we live and normally we travel it in about an hour. What was different this time is they wanted to stop and take my son’s grandma, (son is step son and this is his fathers mother) sweet lady, dinner. So I get out of work at 4:30 and head home.

We leave the house slightly later then anticipated and when we get to the interstate to head south it is backed up with something. We head down the frontage road and see there is an accident on the interstate and with us going down the side road we should be okay right? WRONG! There was a second accident on the frontage road and we had to travel around to another road still to get going south. OK we are off but with our timing we are going to hit this large city at quitting time. YEP, you guessed it. It took us 2 hours to get to a place that normally would have taken usually 1 ¼ hours. OK we are here and having dinner and will be a little late to my son’s lacrosse game but that is fine.

We finally get over to the lacrosse game that started at 7:40 and my son starts playing. It is in a park that with all our rain over the weekend the grass grew and really needed cutting, long grass. With the moisture, long grass and setting sun my daughter was cold and to save from mosquito’s she ran back to the car and got a blanket. We finished the game just as it was really getting dark and picked up to leave. My wife asks if I have the keys and I replied no. Remember daughter and blanket. Well we don’t have the keys, it is now dark people are almost gone and we are searching the long grass for the car keys.

Here are our choices. Find the keys, or call family that would take them almost 2 hours to get us a second set of keys. Not a happy thought at 9pm. I head to the van to see if it was by chance unlocked and you guessed it NOPE.

My wife mentions to a couple of the last people leaving the area to “please watch the ground for a car key with a black remote.”
Some Guy: “Did you mean keys?”
Wife: “No a single key with a black key fob for the doors.”
Some Guy: “What car does it go to?”
Wife” “Our Van.”
Some Guy: “Anything good in the van.”
Wife looks at him kind of weird and he holds up a key. His dog had found it when he was walking out to the game. It seems my daughter had dropped it on her way back from the van with her blanket. This guy saved us a lot of headache and we got of very lucky.

Tuesday I get a call that the softball tournament that was rained out last weekend is now scheduled for this weekend. Our head couch is out of town and I get to try an bring this together.

I find out on Wednesday that one of the gals won’t be there so now I have a 8 girl team. Today I get to start figuring out how to fill my team and move forward in this state tournament. Wish me luck.