One Crazy Day!

Aloooooha!!!!

So I was telling a friend this story the other day and he informed me that I really needed to put it into a blog. :) I had the craziest day! To those of you who read this I warn you now that it is going to be difficult to believe but I assure you its true! :)

So I was going about my day like any other. Check my e-mail, goof around the house blah blah blah and then get ready for work. Right around when I normally get ready for work I receive a text message from my boss saying that I should allow myself an extra 30 minutes to get to work because of a fire in Kihei. The problem was that the text message came in at the time when I normally start getting ready. I hurried around and tried to make up for lost time and may have gained an extra 5 or 10 minutes. Oppssieeee.... Looks like I'm going to be late for work! :) The nature of the particular job I was headed to allows for a little flexibility in my arrival time so I wasn't too worried about it.

While I was on the road to Kihei I get an update from my boss saying, "don't take the highway! Take South Kihei road" So as I approach the turn off for South Kihei road I can see that traffic is backed up and people were waiting on the shoulder of the highway trying to squeeze onto South Kihei road but traffic was moving freely on the highway. So despite my bosses warning.... I took the highway. Things were moving along nicely for a little while. A very little while! :) Eventually things slowed to a dead stop.

I jumped at my first opportunity to get off the highway. I turned onto a residential street and was inching my way to work at a snails pace. When all of a sudden an old friend popped up out of no where. Oh yes.... how exciting.... it was my fuel light. In this circumstance the only thing you can do is hope for the best and praise the Lord you drive a Honda! :)

So eventually I worked my way through the traffic. My boss met me on the curb of the job site (one of the resorts on Maui) I was headed to with my camera and some paperwork. I left my car running, jumped out of the car and ran over to pick up the gear.

Now here is an important footnote into this story... my car had been in a hit and run accident the week before and because of that the driver side door just doesn't open and close the way it used to.

So as I went over to retrieve the stuff I needed my door swung shut. And yes you guessed it.... the door was lock and yes the car is running, with the Air Conditioning on, with the fuel light ON!!!!! So my boss gets out and surveys the scene as I run into the resort to recruit the assistance of the security department.

I get the attention of the security officer on duty and I am informed that they wont be able to help me. They were in the middle of dealing with a shark sighting at the beach below the resort. He did inform me that there was a wire hanger in the women' locker room that I could help myself to.

Soooo.... eventually we got my car unlocked before it ran out of gas and I was a little over two hours late for work. :)

I love chaos! :)