Another Chapter in the Car Drama

On Thursday afternoon, I left work for the ever-dreaded literature class in Russellville. As I pulled out of the lane, my car did two little hiccups of a nature that I had not experienced before. I groaned inwardly, thinking that I might have to have Jolene come and take me to class instead of filling in for me at work.

I chugged on down the road and began to surreptitiously search for my phone, just in case. I stuck my finger into the cell phone pocket in my purse to see if it was there. It was not. I fished around on my passenger seat to see if I could latch on to it. I could not. I was steadily cruising in toward town but was still concerned about the phone. What if I had it in my lap one of the last times I exited my car? It could be laying in some parking lot somewhere, drenched from the previous nights rain.

I was not impressed that I would lose my cell phone on the very day that I might need it. Then I felt a strange vibration from the car that I had not felt in the previous Chapters of Car Drama. "God, just get me to town," I prayed. I was trying to think of who would be the closest to me and Russellville that I might not inconvenience *too* badly if I needed a ride. And that would be providing I could find a phone to call them with. I figured I could probably count on my pastor or someone in his family if they were not scattered in far-off distant lands in my moment of distress, or maybe another friend that lived in the vicinity.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I reached the city limits. I stopped at a convenience store to get a drink to take to class with me and, as I came back to my car and opened the door, I had a flashback. The previous night, I had my phone in hand as I exited the car. Rather than take the phone inside and forget it the next day, I had just pitched the phone in on my seat. I looked and, yes, there was my phone in the crevice of my seat. What a relief!

Oh, the strange vibration...a missed call from Jolene. No wonder I had not felt it previously. But those to hiccups/chugs were real enough.