A story about the world’s greatest neighbors and how I am such a spaz.

Today Lexi and I came home from our play date around 12:30. I pulled the car into the garage, put the emergency break on, turned the car off and got out. As I was unbuckling Lexi from her carseat I noticed that the car was moving backwards. Yeah, you read that right. It was rolling backwards and out of the garage with my kid half strapped into her carseat still inside. I couldn’t open the driver’s door because at the time my thought was “if I open the door, the door will hit the garage wall and wreck the car even more.” I tried to reach the emergency break through the window but couldn’t because now I was in danger of getting smushed into the garage wall. So the car kept rolling. And rolling. And rolling. Until it stopped. And it stopped because our neighbors have a nice picket fence directly across the alley from our garage. Okay, they used to have a nice picket fence. Now the have a mostly nice picket fence and a partly smashed up picket fence. The smashed part is about the same width as our car. At this point I am now back in the car and shaking because I looked at our neighbor’s yard and realized that if the fence hadn’t been able to stop the car, the car would have gone through the fence and over a retaining wall. With my kid in it. Don’t worry. Lexi’s fine. She thought it was pretty fun. I’m fine. Even the car got off with only a few dings in the bumper. And because we are honest people we left a note for them telling them to call us and offering to repair the fence. Several hours later they still hadn’t called but they were out back when we came home tonight. We went over, apologized (a lot) and they told us not to worry about it. Seriously. I broke their fence and their response was “it’s okay, we needed to replace it anyway.” So that’s the story about how we have the world’s greatest neighbors and how I am such a spaz.

Lessons learned today:

1. Always make sure the emergency break is completely engaged and the car is in gear.

2. Abby is a spaz.

3. If you are going to back your car into your neighbor’s fence make sure they don’t care and are planning on replacing it.

4. Honesty is always the best policy.

5. Shut the garage door before you get out of the car so if this happens again the car can only roll 3 feet and damage your own property.