Tonight I learned a very important lesson. First I will set the story up for you.
Tonight started out great. Both girls are spending the night with Virginia. Johnny and I were very excited to have a "date night". We both got home around 6:30. We decided that we really didn't want to go anywhere. However, we did decide to go eat Mexican at the place across the highway. It was really good. We were able to eat our dinner without having to say any of the following statements: "Get Up, Sit Down, Eat your food, Callie quit playing, Bailey stop playing with the decorations on the wall" and the list could go on and on.
Here is where the trouble began. We decided that we wanted some kind of dessert and we really needed toilet paper. So, no, it was not romantic at all but we went to Walmart. When we got there I was pushing the basket and I didn't have my purse so I put my keys in the front part of the basket. I did have sense enough to pull the little flap thing up so they wouldn't slide through the leg holes. We we walked around and picked up a few things. After we paid there were several baskets sitting right there so, as lazy as it was, we left our basket with all of the rest of them. About the time we were walking away one of the people that work there took all the baskets away. We walked to the car and were about to unlock the car when I realized that I didn't have the keys. So Johnny stood by the car while I ran in to get the keys. I went to the place where we had left the basket but it was gone. I went to the Customer Service desk to see if they were there. Nope didn't find them. About that time Johnny came in and asked if I had lost the keys. Yes dear, I have lost my keys and No I can't seem to find them. Johnny started walking up and down the isles looking on the floor. Then I went up and down the isles asking people if they had found any keys in their basket. Finally, I came across an older couple and when I glanced in their basket I saw my key chain dangling in the seat. I know they thought I had lost my mind. I think when I saw them I might have said "Oh my gosh" a little loud. The couple looked at me kind of strange and I started rambling something crazy about how they had saved my life. They had absolutely not clue what in the world I was talking about until I grabbed my keys out of their basket. They didn't even know they were in their basket.
About an hour later we finally left Walmart. Really I couldn't help but laugh a little. I know it was a crazy thing to do. I know I should not have put my keys there. I know they really could have fallen out. Johnny wasn't really mad but I think he just thought I had a little more sense than to leave my keys in the basket. My sweet husband finally said " Melanie, I think somebody must have beat you in the head with every limb of the dumb dumb tree!". So, this was not exactly how we planned on spending our night alone but it worked out fine.
So, note to self...NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR KEYS IN THE BASKET AT WALMART!!!!
