OMG! What a day! Has anyone seen my car key?

[ekra]

I lost it somewhere between opening the passenger car door, faffing about with carseats in the back and getting into the drivers seat to drive home. Yes, we were somewhere else when this happened. All three of us. Me and the 2 girls.

All of this happened after a morning where I convinced myself I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

I took my two DDs out to buy new sandals today. The shopping part was a success. Things went wrong once we got back to the car.

The tension started to rise when DD2 let go of my hand across the carpark and managed to run and fall over I carried her back to the car and opened the passenger car door with my car key. I put DD2 in her carseat and then went round to the other side to check DD1's strap was tight enough.

I then discovered that DD1 had undone DD2's carseat from the main seatbelt holder. It was probably an accident because we have just moved the carseat into the middle and there's not so much room for DD1 to see which seatbelt she is undoing. After that there was much huffing and puffing from me as I tried to re-attach DD2's carseat, all the time watching the clock and just wanting to be home.

I got into the drivers seat, holiding my set of keys, and discovered that there was no longer a carkey on my keyring we were about 6 miles from home.

I think I swore profoundly. Where did it go? I looked under and between and in everything. Every seat, every bag, every pocket, every mat. Under the car, under the cars either side of me. I still have no idea where the disappearing car key went to.

And of course I didn't have my mobile phone with me I was near a town centre so we walked into town, after I squeezed the buggy through the parcel shelf, out of the boot.

The bus took 45 painful minutes to travel 4 miles. And then I had to get a train the last 2 miles.

I was actually very calm after it was obvious those keys had disappeared into a black hole. I guess I am not on the verge of a nervous breakdown afterall since I didn't fall to my knees in the car park and sob.

Evidently my life is so dull that I kind of enjoyed having something so dramatic happen in my day.

Aren't busses expensive now? It's so long since I was on a bus. £2.85 to travel 4 miles.

Oh yes, we had to have lunch before we got on the bus as I had left the house with no food or drinks on me. The only bottle of drink I could get suitable for DD2 (20 months!) to drink from was a Fruitshoot so naturally I thought of Mumsnet. I'm certain the ingredients have changed since the last time I looked at them and told my mum not to let DD1 have them. They no longer contain artificial sweetners. Are people dissing them on the basis of their old ingredient list? Still, I prefer water.

what a nightmare day you've had.

buses are ludicrously expensive. My Mum took dd into town (a 10 min walk, about 0.25 miles)) at the weekend on the bus (dd insisted that they went on the bus despite it being walking distance and my mum having a car anyway!). It cost them £1 to get that far .

No but if you see my old life under the sofa while looking for the keys would you send it back to me please.

if it helps you, dd and I have been off work/school today with the lurgy, we popped out at lunch time o get a couple of bits and bobs and I managed to wipe one of my front tyres out completely by catching the kerb on an islandy thing (visibility v poor at that junction so i was watching the oncoming traffic and not paying attn to proximity to the bollard island thing ). Managed to get the car to the nearest car-related dooby which was an AVIS car centre (so not a garage at all) and they were wonderfully helpful, but I still had to wait 45 mins for the RAC to come out to me because I have locking wheel nuts and no wheel nut key so the avis guy couldn't put my spare on

[weak and feeble woman emoticon required]

To top it all off Dh is in Russia atm so I have got to explain that to him when he gets back

I still have to go and get the car back and I just want wine!!!!!

What is it about car keys??
I hate em