All is well. All dogs have been outside for their potty break and all dogs and cats have been fed. :) I did see Lulu, Bosco, Rocky, Lucky, Mattie, Cotton, Gaylord, Finnegan, Madison and Murphy this morning. This was my morning: (this is how you make a pet sitter panic:)
My morning: up at 5:30am. Walk my dogs. Don leaves for the airport at 6am. I leave at 6:10am for my first job. Walk that dog, feed the dog and cat, give the cat his insulin injection, scoop his box. Go to leave and my car won't start. Nothing. It's dead. Panic sets in. I must get to 2 more "dog" jobs first thing to get the dogs out for potty breaks. I walk back to my neighborhood and start walking through it hoping to find a neighbor who is up and who will let me use their car. It is EARLY! I'm thinking about who I can call but again, it is really early.
To be continued.... AAA just called and is 5 min away. Wish me luck.
9:40am and I am back home after getting the battery replaced in my car. More on that in a moment. Back to the drama: So, I'm walking down my street trying to find someone who is awake and luckily my neighbor Tom drives up. Turns out it isn't actually Tom, it is his wife Rosemary driving Tom's car. I flag her down, explain my situation and she without hesitation says, "here, take Tom's car." It's a Lexus. Mind you, I've never driven a car this nice... or expensive. I thank her profusely, jump in the car and take off. I've pulled into the driveway of my next client and I hit the button to turn the car off. The dogs both see me sitting in the driveway. They are ready to go out. The second I hit the button, panic moment of the day #2 sets in. I don't have a key.... how am I going to start this car again. (My car is a 2004, it has a real key.) I hit the button to immediately to try restart the car and no, it doesn't start. I'm thinking, great, now Tom's car is stuck in the driveway of my client's house and I still have another house to get to (actually 2 more). I'm panicking. Oh, the dogs want out. So I get out of the car, let the dogs out, feed them, feed the cats and the whole time I'm praying... car please start, car please start! I have my bb so I look up Rosemary's phone number. Of course I only have email in my phone not her phone number. I'm googling her trying to find her phone number. I can't find it. So, I go back to the car and try to start it again. As I'm sitting there, a screen pops up that reads: to start the car, press the break." Or something to that affect. It worked!! I am back in business. I turn the car off, go back in with dogs and cats, leave this house, go to next 2 houses to take care of those pets. My phone rings while I'm at the last house. It is Rosemary. She says, "I realized I didn't tell you how to start Tom's car." We had a good laugh.
I'd emailed Don to tell him that I wish this problem with my car would've happened yesterday b/c he was home so I could've just used his car. Don calls me and says he had the battery replaced in my car a year ago so it's probably the alternator or starter. Great. The guy from AAA says he thinks it's the battery. This is good news. He looks at the battery and he says the date on it is 2003. Guess that new battery we got last year wasn't so new. Nissan confirmed it needed a battery so I was home by 9:40am and my car running just fine. I did back it into the garage just in case.
I could use a drink! Instead I am calling my dentist to reschedule the 9am appt that I had to cancel.
