So in the middle of my car window crisis, there was this:
My folks drive into California to visit relatives every so often and we are sort of fish sitting. Well, we are in charge of feeding the fish over at their house. It’s a HUGE tank.
Just before they left, my son attended Grandpa’s Fish Feeding Training Class. I was given the alarm codes and we were all set. Or were we? What all parties forgot was that we needed one tiny thing more.
The key to the house!
The first afternoon (Wacky Wednesday), I was having an exceptionally crisis ridden day. I drove out to feed the fish and discovered our oversight. After a phone call to my folks in California, they decided to overnight the key to me on Thursday, paying extra for early morning delivery. Fed Ex was supposed to be at my doorstep at 10am on Friday.
10am: No Fed Ex. No key.
11am: No Fed Ex. No key.
11:15am: I had to leave the house to run an errand and meet up with Jennifer, the power window reprogramming expert. See yesterday’s post.
2pm: got home to find…no Fed Ex package. No key.
Called my Dad who said, though he paid for early delivery, the key was scheduled to get to me by 4:30pm.
3pm, key in hand, my son and I headed out to my folks’ house to find all fish alive, but unhappy to have been put on a two day diet.
They’ll be gone several more days and the fish will need to be fed each day, but not to worry. I am the KEYMASTER!
lol oh my – yeah, you need that key to get in. That is one thing that I always try to make sure of if I am taking care of Mom’s cat if she and Dad go somewhere…
And nope, Fed Ex NEVER delivers when you want them to! (I can attest to that fact – especially on the days that I am twiddling my thumbs and NOT waiting patiently for my essential oil order to arrive!
These fish are not cheap either and they aren’t supposed to go more than a day without their afternoon food. So my concern was not just that the fish might die, but the financial cost to my folks as well.