Cheryl will have to tell me if she remembers the time in 1987 when we were shopping together in SLC and I locked my keys in my car at (I think) the ZCMI parking garage. We were lucky because the parking attendant came and was able to unlock the car for me.
The first three of today's cartoons are dedicated to those memories.
After that day in Salt Lake, Richard, who would have been 10 at the time, drew the following cartoon for me:
In 2002 there was a "Close to Home" comic that was nearly the same as Richard's:
How about the Mario Bros. theme song for that classic Nintendo game:
The Yellowstone fires of 1988. This was a sad time for me. I went to Yellowstone Park so many times in my growing-up years! When I think back to that summer of the fires, I remember sitting over on Sister Gardner's deck talking to her about the fires, and seeing haze from the fires in the air.
FACTS:
The summer of 1988 was the driest in the Park's recorded history.
More than 793,000 acres (36% of the park) were affected by fire.
Fires begun outside of the park burned more than half the total acreage.
Humans caused 9 fires; lightning caused 42 fires.
About 300 large mammals, primary elk, perished.
$120 million was spent and 25,000 people participated in this firefighting effort, the largest in U.S. history.
This huge effort saved human life and property, but had little impact on the fires themselves.
Rain and snow finally stopped the advance of the fires in September.
The last time I went to Yellowstone was 4-5 years ago. (Can't remember for sure, I just know it was when Brad was on his mission) I was so happy to be there again and see all the new trees.
Today's late 1980's fad is the suction cup stuffed animal.
Practically every car (except mine) had some sort of animal sticking to a window.
Today's last cartoon is for all of us over-worked, underpaid folk. Have you ever felt like this? I have.
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Those are pretty classic. I locked my keys in my car for the first, and hopefully last time, this summer. I think Keyless entry helps to avoid that, unfortunately I don't have keyless!
So question, have you ever locked your keys in the car while it was running? Lets just say it wasn't very happy thing. Especially when gas is over three dollars, the only other key is with the husband who is at least 30 mins away if not more depending what client he was with. The only thing that made me feel better? The fact that I didn't have kids in the car. I hope I never do that again.
Ah, Richard is famous! He's like published now. Love it!
Funny comics. Richard's was cool. I remember the fires. My mom has really bad smoke allergies and she was miserable. I hope that doesn't happen again.
I like Rich's comic!
Video game music drives me insane, yet Rich loves it I just don't get it.
So as I was coming over to Rexburg today from Wyoming, we stopped in Bozeman to get some lunch. As we got done and headed back out to the car, I started looking for the keys as the time kept ticking on by, it became more frantic. I then I finally gave in, and concluded I had pulled a "Bonnie" I had locked my keys in the car. MAN!!! Stuck halfway through my drive and no extra key to speak of. I just wanted to go. So I called the locksmith. That's 45 dollars down the window with the slim-jim. I feel for you Bonnie. I hope to never do that again.
Megan... Sorry to hear that. I have only one bit of advice: AAA. They have been a part of our family for years, and although you may have to wait an hour or so for the locksmith to show up, there is no charge! You can even go into the AAA office and they will make you this cool little plastic key that fits inside of a credit card sized piece of plastic. You keep this in you wallet, then it is there when you need it to get in your car.... I think that's come in handy for me once.
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