Monday, December 3, 2007

Knock, Knock!

A little bit ago, I had Baylee almost asleep when I got a knock on the door. I looked out the peephole (since we were both still in pjs), and see that it's a police officer. I opened the door thinking I might be in trouble for something, maybe our dog or something else. He points to a car a little more than halfway in the road and asks me if it's mine. Oops! Ben changed the brake pads this weekend, and it had rolled down the driveway a little Saturday night also. I guess I just didn't have the emergency brake on tight enough, although it was on pretty tight. So, I walk out there, and see there are two other officers at the "scene of the crime". I didn't know you needed that much backup for a car that had rolled down the driveway! Well, I stuck Baylee in her carseat, drove up the driveway, accidentally killed the car, and put the emergency brake on as hard as I could. So, hopefully it doesn't try to run away again! I just thought it was kinda silly that someone had to call the police to tell them our car was in the road. They couldn't just knock on my door and told me themself. That's the kind of neighbors we have- if there's something they don't like or something wrong, they call someone instead of telling us themselves (like with our lawn). So, needless to say, I'm excited to move when Ben graduates in March (especially to a house with heat and air). The police officer was nice, but I try to avoid police to the best of my abilty. Lesson learned-don't let your car roll into the road. Now I'm just paranoid it's going to happen again.

1 comment:

katie said...

That is too funny. When we lived in NY, our car did the same thing, it rolled down our driveway and across the street and into our neighbor's yard and my mom looked out the window and said something like "Oh they have a car that looks like ours..." or something like that.... those silly cars trying to run away!

But then there is me who never puts the emergency break on, but when someone else did the night before my wedding and I was running errands around town and came back with the van making a funny smell, Scott and Jim had to teach me not to drive with the parking break on...but I didn't even know where it was located.

Too bad the police had to be involved with your runaway car.