I think
the Mamas and Papas were on to something when they said you couldn’t trust
Monday. The first weekday was more like Friday the 13th than Monday
the 30th.
We were
off to a good start since we headed out to mow the lawn before the temperature
surged toward heat stroke level. I revved up my mower, put on my cap and
goggles. I reached for my ear protection muffs—and they were missing.
Since
we were mowing the backyard, I pulled my car out and used the car remote to
close the garage door, locked the car and hid the keys. I raced across the lawn
to see if my husband was wearing my ear protection, but he insisted he was
wearing the ones that were on his mower.
I went
back to the house, took my car keys from their hidey-hole to use the car garage
door opener. I searched every logical place and many illogical places for the earmuffs.
Finally, I glanced down and saw them inside the back part of the mower.
A few
clouds rolled in and it was almost pleasant mowing. Then, I noticed a streak of
lightning. Since I was finished with my section of lawn, I went back to the
garage. I unlocked the car and opened the garage door. I locked the car and put
my car keys in my pocket.
After
the sky cleared, I decided to take a flag to mark a seedling tree. I wound up
circling the house and guess what wasn’t in my pocket when I got back to the
house. Oh, it wasn’t just car keys missing, it was my entire key chain with
every key I needed on it.
Harold
and I searched the route I had taken, as I remembered, and couldn’t find my
keys. Reminded me of Alzheimer’s Warning Sign #7: Misplacing things and losing
the ability to retrace steps. I tried my best to retrace my steps and walked
around the yard several times.
Well
now. Trying not to panic, I called about getting a new car key from the
dealership. When I heard the part about towing the car, I called my son. I have
a spare key, but it wasn’t at our house. Eric came over to help me look. I
walked with him showing him where I had driven the mower. I walked the area I
remembered traveling, and he veered off to the side. In a few minutes, he found
the keys. “I didn’t look there,” I said, “because I didn’t remember being over
that far.” So much for retracing my steps, or in this case, the mower route.
As the
day progressed, my husband and I went to the machine shop to see what kind of flowerpots
we had. We found some pots, and when I went to move an over-sized pot, I tripped
and fell. The good news was that I fell on some bags of mulch. Still, I twisted
my sore knee and hurt my shoulder.
I took
a few ibuprofen tablets for the pain, and thought I’d cozy up on the couch for
a well- deserved rest. As I passed by Harold on the way to the living room, he
said, “Oh I forgot to tell you…the Japanese beetles are back.”
The
only good thing about the kind of Monday I had is that every other day of the
week was fine. You just can’t trust Mondays.
Copyright
© July 2020 by L.S. Fisher
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