I park my Tahoe in the garage every night and let me tell you I love being able to do that. Thank heavens i have
one vehicle that fits in the garage, barely fits, but fits none the less. Now some of you may think there is no
downside to parking in the garage and I can understand that. However in my world there is a small downside.
Okay, maybe there is only a downside in my world!
Remember me writing about not remembering what a post-it was on my desk for? My memory seems to fail
me sometimes. This may be part of the reason there is a downside to parking in the garage. See, my problem
is I always leave wearing or not wearing the wrong thing! When you don’t go outside to get in your car you can
forget what the weather was when you looked outside and not be dressed appropriately.
Maybe I should give you a visual here because I know you are thinking when you open the garage door you
definitely see the outside! Well I go into the garage and on my way in press the big button to open the garage
door. Then I continue to get into my Tahoe without waiting to look outside. I get my seatbelt fastened, glasses
on, and start to drive. I don’t always remember the weather until I get outside and rain starts falling on my
windshield. Luckily I’ve only had the sunroof open a couple times when driving into the rain.
I get my Tahoe out into the elements and close my garage door. About that time is when it clicks with me that I
forgot my coat or I shouldn’t be wearing the sweatshirt or I left something else behind. Sometimes, like
yesterday, it doesn’t occur to me that I forgot my coat until I’m a quarter mile from my house and it occurs to
me it is raining and I have no coat. Oops! Then there is this dilemma. Do I go back in the house and get the
coat or change the shirt. Do I re-open the garage door or do I turn off the Tahoe and go through my front
door? Oh my goodness so much work! The Tahoe is already started, but does the garage door need to be
opened one more time, I mean I’m sure it only has so many automatic opens left in it (I already need to readjust
it to close tighter again). At this point i sometimes say screw it and deal with not wearing the right thing. Other
times I go inside and change my shoes, get the coat, or whatever.
Is it just me that has this issue? Umm…you really don’t have to answer because I know it probably is.
I’m not complaining though, just letting you know the little stupidity that occurs in my world. I mean parking in
the garage has its benefits…no scraping ice, car is not freezing in the morning, car is not hot on summer
mornings, I can roll down my windows and let the smell of fast food out if I had some for lunch. Lots of good
things.
There is another issue with parking in the garage leading to not knowing neighbors, but we will discuss that
another time. I have a friend coming for dinner and need to get things ready.
BTW – I did try uploading video of me being stupid like I said I would try to do on my last depressing entry, but
it didn’t work. Stupid SmartSpace. I’ll work on that because it is amusing to see me be such a dumbass in
action.