Out of all the days I could have been unfortunate enough to somehow forget my house keys and lock myself out, it had to have been today.The heat outside was scorching and all I wanted to do was go inside and take a nap.
When I got out of the car I walked up to the front door of my house and started fumbling through my purse in search of my house keys.
My hands felt nothing. I thought it was odd and so I fumbled some more. Still nothing. Taking care to make sure I wasn’t somehow missing them I took everything out until my purse was empty. No house keys. Then the memory hit me like a flash. I remembered briefly setting them on the table behind me as I walked out the door. I forgot to go back and grab them. Then the terrible realization hit me. I was outside and they were inside. No big deal, I would just get in through the window. But as I went to each window of the house they were all locked. I was now truly stuck and I would have to wait for my husband to get home before he could let me in. All I could think about when I was outside was my air conditioning unit. I wanted to feel the cool air of the A/C coming out of the air vents and draining all the heat away. My air conditioning unit is so new, we only got it from the HVAC company last year. Now it just sits there waiting for me to use it. I was stuck outside for three hours before my husband came home and was able to let me inside. I never loved HVAC technology as much as I did at that moment.