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The Thanksgiving Comedy of Errors
As the title might suggest my Thanksgiving did not go as well as it could have. I've rarely had an event that so closely resembled the plot of a holiday comedy. The day really started the day before. Due to an emergency, Casey had no time to do the usual payday ritual of coming to get me so I could get cash and do the laundry. This meant I had to get up at 5:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving to run to the one laundromat in the area with holiday hours. Not amusing, especially when the manager was twenty minutes late opening the place up and it was 29 degrees. After two hours the laundry was done and the rest of the morning and early afternoon went fine. I was really looking forward to leaving for dinner. We'd made a reservation at one of the best restaurants in town.  The drive was about a half hour from the house and we were having fun singing along to the Christmas songs on the radio. We were happily discussing driving to a local light display later in the evening as we pulled into the restaurant's drive. That was when steam began to shoot from under the hood. The water pump had cracked. Annoyed we parked the care and walked into the restaurant debating whether to attempt driving home after or calling the tow truck after dinner. After finding out that they were behind schedule in the seating we were handed a pager and decided to look around the gift shop while we waited. I turned to answer a question that Casey asked and didn't notice that a draft from the overhead vent had blown the corner of my long flowing sleeve into a lit candle! Casey noticed the smoke and figured it out before any serious damaged was caused. A part of  the sleeve melted onto my arm and caused a couple small second degree burns and the blouse was trashed. You would have thought I'd turned into the Human Torch the way the gift shop manager and ladies room attendent freaked out. Luckily nothing else went wrong and dinner was wonderful. We were even able to drive the car home. I only had to deal with my arm stinging all night and even that is gone now. I suppose the thanks I should give after all this, is thanks that we managed to survive.