Doggies Drive Car?

So I had one of those days. One of those days that you absolutely could not believe unless someone told you first hand. Well here goes…

It started out pretty normal: breakfast, coffee, Mickey Mouse – followed by our weekly trip to COSTCO. This is the only place our kids have frequented since birth. For one, it is the only store that has the double seat carts that I have pleaded with our local Target to get. Secondly, the ceilings are so tall and there are so many people that hardly anyone notices my children’s antics.

Until Today.

The first three quarters of the shopping trip went by without a hitch… Paper towels, Milk, Wipes, Diapers – all the normal items filled my cart. We paid, and were on our way. That was until my son spotted the giant photo of a hot dog on the wall on our way out.

I realized we were ahead of schedule, so I conceded - lunch would be a great way to waste some time. Lunch was going so well until I decided to kill two birds with one stone, just as I attempted a call to my sister-in-law my son started screeching: “Mommmmmmmmy where my ketchup, I don’t have any ketchup?”, I quickly hung up and re-focused my attention. As we finished up I gave my boys a few napkins to “wipe their hands and faces with”. Suddenly one of them playing janitor to every piece of spilt anything on the floor - mortified at the germs he could be contracting, I quickly scooped him up.

As I rose from the floor - I glanced in both directions and didn’t see my other son. For a moment I panicked, until of course I saw him standing in the aisle way in the midst of all the carts roaming past. His hand was firmly planted on his rear, napkin and all. I asked him what he was doing and to my surprise he replied, “I go potty Mommy, wipe my butt.” My face probably appeared paralyzed. I mean, he had never said anything like that before, not even remotely close (I determined in that split second that his silence had only been to deter me from staring potty training).

I wanted out of there, FAST, so I got them both in the cart and maneuvered my way past the others out the door and I was nearing my car. I felt I was in the home stretch! I opened the trunk of our car, just then three dogs – THREE - hopped to the dashboard of the vehicle parked next to me. They were yelping like crazy. I fell, nearly to the ground it had scared me so bad.

This sent my son into hysterics, he was laughing even harder than the dogs were barking. Which of course made the dogs bark even louder, then my son starts pointing at them “Mommy doggies drive car?” The pointing was the breaking point for the dogs, the largest one jumped up on the steering wheel and the horn starts blaring.

The horn, the laughing and the barking continued as I put every last item in the car. Yet, all I can remember is the honking. Even I could not help but laugh - so, thank you Gold Honda CR-V in the Costco parking lot for that memorable moment our my life.