My stupid dogs become hero's ;)

Time has gone by and we have been without bloggable excitement.... Until.... last night. Oh my goodness. I live for nights like last night. It was hysterical. So let me begin. ;)

It all started with a crazy week. I have had something every night. We had a big Christmas play with kids from my work and we were working every night to get prepared. When we aren't home our dogs stay in our closet. So they were peeved and tore up my bathroom rug yesterday, ripped cotton balls into about 5,000 pieces, and successfully ruined one shoe in protest to the neglect. So I took that as a strong note to mom and promised to give them more attention. Clay has been sick this past week but was feeling better last night and when to dinner with some friends. So I am in charge of the the dogs and I load us all up for Chinese take-out. We make a night of it and took our time. I ate in the car and let the dogs explore. I couldn't wait to get back home and hop in the tub to relax. So we get home and I take a bath and I pop a benedryl. I really wanted to sleep good and it always does the trick. This was at about 9:00 or so.

Well at about 9:15 my phone rings and it was my friend Kaitlyn. She tells me that she is broken down and has no idea how to get anywhere. She needs to get her car started because she plans to go home this weekend. So here I am. Home alone... with two crazy dogs... and no clue how to manage broken cars. So I call someone that knows how to fix anything. Our neighbor Andy could have his own "fix it" show because he can do anything. So he agrees to come with me to help out my friend. So I have the debate... to bring the dogs or not to bring the dogs... that is the question.... "Do I want anything else to be ripped to shreds?" I don't think so. So I will bring the dogs.

So here we are. Me, my neighbor Andy (who I am sure has gotten out of bed to help me) and my two rotten dogs (that I love so much). We take off and drive to the mall parking lot because that is where she was. She works at the mall and when she got off that night her car just wouldn't budge. So I whip in my car and pull up in front of hers. I make a little joke like I know what to do to get her car going. Andy hops out and tells me to leave the car running. He was going to look at her car before he tried to jump it. So he left his jumper cables and tools in my car with the dogs and I got out to talk to Kaitlyn. I shut the door because I didn't want to let the dogs out.

So here we are... all humans outside and dogs inside in a warm car. My dogs in all of the excitement LOCK THE CAR DOORS!!!!! So even better, huh. Here we are... sitting outside with a car running with dogs in it but locked and one car broken down with the hood up. Awesome. I am just beginning to panic because I have pulled my neighbor out of his warm bed to help someone he doesn't even know and now my stupid dogs are making the process a lot longer!! Oh my goodness I was mortified. So we sit out and chuckle (when I am sure Andy is fit to be tied-of course he would never tell me because he is so nice) Time passes by and I call Clay to come help. He says that he is on his way but it will take just a little bit for him to get there.

I can't let this happen. I can't let anymore time pass by. At this point mall security comes to check out all of the fiasco. I am beyond hysterical at this point because it is really quite funny to me and... remember that I took benedryl about an hour ago... The combination made me find everything so funny. The mall security waits with us and everyone really can't believe the way it was all going down. So in my hysterical-ness I think to myself. "You know what, I have an idea"

Now this was a random, never going to happen, but might as well try it anyway, kind of idea. What will it hurt, ya know? So I go around to the other side of my car and signal to the dogs. "Come here Maddie and Bentley. Roll the windows down. Roll them down. You can do it."

And low and behold those dogs ROLLED DOWN THE CAR WINDOW!!! They rolled down the car window, I tell you. So we were able to get in the car and jump her car. At this point we had such a crowd they could not believe it. They all just knew I did special training with them. I of course pretended like I did and that my dogs were actually very gifted and even made the beds at home while we were at work. (When actually they just tear up rugs, ruin shoes, and make a huge cotton ball mess)

We are all laughing and couldn't believe it and get her car fixed. Andy and I load up in the car with the dogs and head home. I say a million apologies and thank him! As we are going down the interstate I kept seeing some movement from my hood. OH MY GOODNESS MY HOOD ISN'T DOWN. With the way the night was going and my crazy, random happenings track record I thought it was best for me to whip my car over and he jumped out to push it down. We laughed and finally made it home safely. We went are separate ways and rested knowing he was a magical mr. fix it neighbor, I have two dogs who can do anything, and me.... well... I just knew... I could finally sleep. Ah, another great night!