ihop adventure

Today was a terrible day. While everyone else was downtown getting drunk and catching beads (not that this is what I wanted to do, just saying...), I woke up at 7:30 and immediately got to studying physiology.  At 1 o'clock I realized my productivity was waning, so I decided to break.  I transferred to Anna's where she fed me pizza, then I miserably studied (with still about half the productivity I had in the morning) until about 7:45.  Then it was IHOP time.  

Today at IHOP, everyone could get a FREE 3 stack of buttermilk pancakes.  IHOP sketches me out, but I will eat almost anything that is free.  So, with Anna driving, we went and thoroughly enjoyed those pancakes.  At the end of our meal, we discovered Anna's keys were missing.  After searching the places we would have preferred them to be (in her pockets, at the table, i even looked through my purse) we found they were locked in her car, still in the ignition.  And the car was running.  Then, she forgot her phone number and the color of her car all within the span of 5 minutes.  People, this is what med school is.  Our brains are disintegrating bit by bit (some faster than others apparently).

This has never happened to me.  Luckily, Honda makes it very difficult to do such a thing.  I cannot lock my car without my keyless entry unless I pull on the door handle while I push down on the lock. But I have done some stupid things while driving.  

1.  tried to get out of the car while it was still in drive

2. tried to put the car in park while it was still moving 

3. tried to turn on the car when it is already on (done that a lot, herbie gets angry)

4. recently I endangered 4 very nice people's lives by setting my mileage to zero while I was turning.  When the wheel straightened out, my arm got stuck and twisted around, and I ended up in the other lane.

So, conclusion of the night, we waited for about 45 minutes for AAA to show up.  In the meantime, Steven (who also happened to be partaking of the free pancakes with his fam) broke apart an umbrella and tried to use the metal piece to unlock the car.  Unsuccessful.  Lee asked almost every person leaving IHOP if they had a coat hanger in their car.  Unsuccessful. We did talk to a girl who had locked her keys in her car earlier that day, and she said the AAA guy told her more people locked their keys in their car on Fat Tuesday then any other day of the year.  I wonder why...