Reply To: Funniest ADD Moment — What's yours?

[justinwilliam87]

So, I notice there are a lot of stories about keys being locked in cars. Here’s mine, I used to be a painter and had to meet a new guy at a fuel station and from there we would travel to the jobsite in his ute. Right, so along comes a car with heaps of painting gear in the back, I promptly put my own gear and lunchbox in the tray and begin to climb into the cab. It’s at this point, when I’m reaching for the seatbelt, that I realise that the driver is in fact someone I have never seen before. THE LOOK ON HIS FACE!!!!! Priceless. Well I apologised and took all my gear back out and proceeded to wait for the actual person I had to meet. I see him after some time and in fact he is driving a Jeep Cherokee and not a utility, he has parked in a bay to wash the windscreen not to fill up. We chat, I put my gear in the back and proceed to the passenger door, which is locked, so the other guy opens the driver door, hits a button, then closes the door. Now, my door is still locked, his door is now locked and the engine is still running. People have begun to line up behind us, people are becoming impatient, and this other guy is freaking out. I decide he can take my car back to his home where his spare keys are. He lives approximately one and a half hours round trip away. He leaves, I stay and try to console and direct people around the stationary locked still running vehicle. After ten minutes of abuse and threatening glares I begin to reassess my position. Decision made, retreat and watch from a distance. Hey, I’m not going to get beat up over someone else’s car. So i watch and try to pretend I have nothing to do with this bowser blocker. The other guy returns no more than two minutes after the last angry customer drives off, he asks me how it went. “Yeah good mate, no worries. People around here are so understanding”. And then we trundle off to work two hours late.

This other person has become a friend and has since actually been diagnosed with ADHD after two of his children were. Ha, so I guess we were doomed from the beginning.

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