With One Honk Of My Horn...

I blew my coolness factor.

It wasn't just a little beep.

No, it was more like a hysterical, leaning on the thing,

"life saving"

H-OOO-NNN-KKK!!!

Picture me blushing as I write about it...

I got to drive to Austin Monday to pick up

Madeline and bring her home to see

Susannah in a one act play that night.

I had put in a standing offer to do this

any time I was needed!

Yea!

I get to have Madeline to myself for 3 hours!

I navigated the campus just fine and even

found a visitor's spot in which to park

 at her apartment.  (A real coup!)

She came right down, and off we went.

Within three blocks I had blown it.

We were on a one way street in the left lane

when I saw a car headed the wrong way

straight for us.

So...I did what I always do in such

circumstances, and sat down on my horn.

The only thing was...this car was not traveling

like a speeding bullet.

It was actually proceeding very slowly.

Well, that's not the only thing.

On that campus of approximately 99,999 students,

the driver of the errant car happened to be

SOMEONE MADELINE KNEW!

Nooooooooooooo!

She had just left a class with this girl!!!

I was dying!  

Sweet Maddie just made a "turn around"

gesture to the girl, which she did.

 Then she told me that "we don't usually honk

at each other," while indicating that

there were plenty of mistakes made, thus

opportunities to do so.

You may not want to ride with me, cause

I will probably never honk my horn again

the rest of my life.

No matter how dire the circumstances.

I think this will be added to the stories of

the ways God keeps me humble.

So, I guess I am not the coolest Mimi on

the University of Texas campus.

Frowny face.