yes, i am independent. i am able to do minor plumbing repairs.
and, yes, i know enough not to panic when the battery in my car runs out because motolite is just a phone call away.
i am an independent woman who thinks she can do it all.
except yesterday, i left my house keys in my car. and my car happened to be in the office parking lot. so, a trike ride away from the house, i began dreading the inevitable -- how the heck am i going to get inside me house?
i texted pazi, who panicked along with me. and i texted dek, who asked me what'll i do now. i didn't even text person x -- i knew him well enough to know he won't be able to do anything.
in the end, i texted my ultimate knight in shining armor. he's the friend who would wake up early in the morning to bring me and my family to the airport. he's the friend who'd not only lend me his maid to ensure my house gets cleaned big time at least once a year, but would also buy new drill bits when i borrow his old ones (not to mention buy screws and the thingee you insert into the holes you make with your drill so the screws will have something to hold on to). he's the friend who'd bring you home when you're car-less (and even when you're just too lazy to drive) and would listen to you repeat the same story twelve million times without telling you "oh, i've heard that already."
so my knight in shining armor arrived, and we climbed two gates and broke one window in tandem (yes, i make an awful damsel in distress -- i had to be in on the adventure with him) so that we could finally get inside the house. it was embarassing enough to have been pretending all this time to be an independent woman only to call him when the going gets tough, it was even worse that he had to see the gubat that i had allowed to grow on the path on one side of my house, as well as my laundry gaily swinging in the breeze. and let's not even get to the part where i climbed said gates in a dress -- i'm just thankful that i left my four-inch heels at work and commuted home in my crocs. otherwise, a lawyer in heels and pearls climbing up her home's two gates would've been truly tragic.
my knight in shining armor, in true hero fashion, even suffered a minor injury along the way. but, ever gallant, he brushed it off and said, it'll be fine in a bit. i hope it is much better now ... we can't have knight in shining armor getting tetanus or something like that.
the night ended with a much needed trip to secret goto place, and major laughs about the "tragedies" i seem to get myself into all the time. in the end, i promised to duplicate my keys and leave a copy where they'll be easily accessible (translation: with knight in shining armor, of course). hopefully, with that done, i won't have to go through the trouble of scaling walls and braving crazy growing plants in the dark.
then again, if something like this happens again, well, i know who i'm going to call. and it ain't going to be the ghostbusters.
*image from http://www.cartoonstock.com/
3 said hello!:
Roxy, you're painting Mr. Knight with too much shine. Heroes are often accidental: they just happen to be at the right place, at the right time. Had this fiasco happened before KAP, Mr. Knight wouldn't be too shiny at all coz he'll probably won't hear your call or just see your text 2hrs later. But then again, could it be more than just a coincidence that he's the namesake of last year's CNN Hero of the Year? ;-) Heroes, big or small, are what real friends are for!
you're too humble ☺☺☺ accept the compliment, and use it to milk as much free goto from me in the immediate future ☺☺☺
... and oh, those plastic thingees you mentioned that go into the drill hole before you drive the screw in, they're popularly called 'tox'. But they're officially called Nylon Anchors.
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