The day had finally come that I would be staying out on Metinic for 4 days. I woke up bright and early to finish getting everything together before I headed out. I packed majority of the things I was bringing the night before, but I saved the cooler for the morning. I figured it would just be easier to pack all the food at once, rather than pack the food that didn't need refrigerating at night and packing what did in the morning. Unfortunately, I was still running around like a chicken with my head cut off (for lack of better words), trying to get everything together.
Eventually I ended up locking my keys in my trunk. I had finished packing in the last of my things that I was brining to the trunk, but I realized as soon as I closed it that my keys were somewhere in there. The funny thing is, my car can only be locked from the outside, so the only way that locking the keys in it is possible is to only unlock the trunk, and then shut it without unlocking the rest of the car. Of course that's what I did. I seriously thank my lucky stars that the night prior I had decided to crack the windows, because it seemed like a nice night to let the car air out, and I have weather strips so I figured that if it did rain then it wouldn't be a problem. I was able to squeeze my through the crack and unlock the door, but doing that causes the alarm to go off. So until I could find my keys amongst all the stuff jammed into the trunk, the alarm was not going to shut off.
That's about the time that I noticed the people a few sites down from me relaxing in their chaise chairs and pajamas, clearly enjoying the show I had put on for them. That's also when I noticed that I still had not changed for the day, so I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off in pink polka-dotted shorts and a bra. I can't even imagine what these people were thinking. I would have been doing the same thing if I were them; to be honest though I have no idea why they were even up! It was 7 in the morning and they clearly had nowhere important to be!
Thankfully I figured everything out (without having to call AAA) and made it to the office in time for Beth to drop me off at the docks. As if things hadn't already started on a bad foot that morning though, I misplaced my keys again right before we were about to leave. The problem ended up being that since I have no use for my keychain up here, I took my car key off of it and attached it to the camper key thinking that would be easier than lugging a giant keychain around that I would never use up here. Good idea right? WRONG! Turns out that I need the giant keychain so I can actually notice when I put the damned thing down. I would always try to do things with the key in my hand, and I would end up letting go of it without noticing.
When I finally found the keys, I handed them right off to Beth and made them her responsibility until I got back from the island.
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