Where's my SUITCASE?

I land in Grand Junction and we went directly to furniture store

for this girls BIG GIRL BED.

Then this crazy thing happened on the way home...

Layla, I hear, is still LAUGHING about it!

We buy the bed.

They can't deliver for a few days... BUT, for $20 you can

borrow their pickup truck for 75 minutes!  PERFECT!

I say..."I'll drive it because I don't really want to drive Tegan's stick shift XB!"

Well you needed drivers license and insurance card...I had both

but my insurance card reads Dave's name so it was a no go for me.

Tegan showed his license and insurance~ which meant

I WAS DRIVING THE XB HOME.

Tegan gives me a refresher course where first, second, third and fourth gears

are and I think...

"Ok, I got this"

We take off... slowly.

As we approach the stoplight out of the shopping area, I realize

it's on an incline...

Which FREAKS me right out as the car behind me pulls right up to my bumper.

Kelley knows I'm freaking out cuz I tell her and then the light

turns green and I

GUN IT!

I make the tires squeal as I pull away QUICKLY so I don't roll back into

the idiot so close behind me.

"That was great!  I did it!', I laugh!

Kelley looks behind her and says the back hatch is open.

I say...

"Is my suitcase still back there?"

Kelley looks and says.... NO!

Good lord.... we didn't see it, but my suitcase had come flying out at the guy behind us~

who had to stop his car, get out and THROW my suitcase to the curb to get around it!!

I pull over to the curb and tell Kelley there is no way I can turn around and go thru traffic after it 

and I tell her to RUN and get my suitcase.  

AND SHE DOES!!

I love that Kelley!

Layla and I are straining our necks trying to see around the curved road we took 

(when I drove off) to find her mommy.

Wish I had a camera to snap Kelley as she walked thru a parking lot laughing and pulling

my suitcase!  I swear I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants!

It amazes me to this day that Tegan drives EVERYWHERE with stuff in the back

of his car- with a door that doesn't latch -and NOTHING ever falls out!

Leave it to me.

And my HEAVY suitcase.

Hey Tegan... FIX that latch, ok?

Oh Meme is nuts... isn't she Layla?

 I did make it safely home in that car,

suitcase and all~