#1 - For our date night, Brad and I went to a Toyota dealership to test drive a tacoma. We do this every once in a while just for fun, with no intention of actually buying the vehicles we drive. When we were dating, we would pretend we were engaged and say that our parents were buying us a car for our wedding. Now, we always say that Brad has started a new job and we want to upgrade. We don't do it all that often, but yes, this is a horrible thing to do to poor car salesmen. Anyway, this last time of test driving may have cured us of our habit. We were looking at the Tacomas and on a whim, asked the salesman if we could take a look at the new 4-Runners. He went to the other side of the lot to drive one over for us and while doing so, backed the 4-runner into a Tundra. Both vehicles were damaged. We felt AWFUL. He proceeded to tell us that if we were to buy the 4-Runner (damaged) he would give us a really good deal. He quoted us a price and it was, indeed, a really good deal. We nearly bought it just to make his day a bit better and to relieve some of our guilt in being the cause of his trouble in the first place.
We didn't buy it. We still feel guilty.
#2 - Orva was sitting (very happily) in her bouncer while I was taking a shower. She suddenly went from talking and babbling to WAILING and I glanced out to see her on her back in front of the bouncer...on the tile floor. No, I did not strap her in. She wiggled her way right out and even managed to hit the corner of the vanity on the way down. Surprisingly, she recovered quite quickly and I put her back in her bouncer, buckled her tightly, and got back in the shower. After my shower, I was getting ready with her still (happy again) in her bouncer. I tipped my face toner off the side of the counter and it sprayed her right in the eye. We went the rest of the day with a very red side of the face due to direct contact with the side of the vanity and the tile floor and a very red eye due to direct contact with my toner.
This, too, caused much guilt on my part. Hopefully we'll have a better week next week, with less guilt involved.
4 comments:
oh. that is very sad news on all accounts. no more fake car shopping for you!
i can relate to the not-buckled-in incident.....i always am surprised when my kids can get out of things, and usually i only discover they can when they crash out.
whoops! poor baby, and poor car salesman. he should have been looking where he was going! at least your bouncer was on the ground when she fell out and not up on the counter. i've had that happen to friends. and i think orva's a little young to be using toner.
oh boy. that's too bad you can't just wave "undone" on those type of things. it was really the guys fault, i mean he shouldn't have crashed, but i know i would feel the guilt too. i'm sure orva will be ok. paul totally jumped off our window seat when he was 3 days old, and he turned out ok.
eek! Poor guy and poor little Orva. Lucky for us, babies are indeed very resiliant. Car salesmen, ehh, not so much.
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