My company allows each employee 16 hours of volunteer time per year. Thus, several co-workers and I spent our lunch breaks yesterday volunteering at an animal shelter called Wayside Waifs (can you guess that it was founded in the 1940s?) "socializing" the cats.
I drove us there in one of our company vans and before we went in, I decided to leave my coat in the van. (Foreshadowing!)
We had a great time with the kitties and of course I found one I liked best and really wanted to take home. It’s hard to remember my pledge to stick with three cats sometimes.
When we got back to the office, I gave the keys to the person who’d reserved the van and went about my day. In the late afternoon, I received a new laptop and the switch from PC to Mac took me until after 6 o’clock, which is well after most people leave.
It was probably 6:30 p.m. before I started to wonder if I’d taken my coat out of the van. I hadn’t.
It wasn’t that cold outside, but my coat was important in a whole different way: it had my car keys in the pocket.
I ended up having to have my boss run me home – luckily he was still around. This morning, my husband begrudgingly got out of bed at 7 o’clock to run me early to Coffee Morning. I’m typing this at the coffee shop with a delicious egg sandwich and a chamomile tea sitting on either side of the laptop.
So that’s my story of scatterbrainedness for the week. Let’s hope it’s the only one.
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