Bad Mommy Moment

I had quite the traumatic experience yesterday that should be blogged about so other mothers don't do what I did. This is a true story.

My mom is in town and we planned to go visit my sister-in-law Trish and her daughter Bella in North Las Vegas. It was kind of chaotic at my house that morning, and to make the story shorter, we ended up borrowing my brother-in-law Kip's car. We had it all planned out to pick up some lunch and head over to the Aliante park. After the 1/2 hour car ride over there, I dropped my mom off to meet Trish and pick up our lunch while I got some gas for the car. When I got to the gas station I turned off the car and got out, leaving Macie and the keys inside. After fighting with the card machine I had to go in to pay with the cashier. So, I went to open the door so I could get Macie out. That was the moment I started to panic.

Kip's car has automatic locks that turn on 30 seconds after the car is turned off, no matter what. I completely forgot about that when I got out to put the gas in. I locked Macie in the car and, of course, my cell phone. Talk about giving yourself a heart attack! I am a high-strung, overprotective mother in the first place, so this was NOT good. Lucky for me there was an off-duty motorcycle cop outside of the gas station who called in for a nearby unit. Within minutes 2 cop cars pulled up and, unfortunately, could do nothing. They radioed in for the fire department, and soon after a fire truck arrived with about 5 guys who, once again, could do nothing.

If you can imagine, by this time it was quite the spectacle. Curious bystanders were wondering what was going on...it looked like someone robbed the store or had gotten hurt. We were in North LV afterall. Anyway, I was the frantic mother trying to entertain Macie while strange people kept peeking in (the windows have extremely dark tint) to see what was going on. If I left her sight she would cry. I could tell that her head was sweaty (it was a hot day) and she was getting frustrated that I wouldn't get her out. The FD started talking about breaking a window because with a baby in there, you really can't wait too long. She was already getting hot. The cops called in locksmiths but weren't sure how long they'd take. By now about 20 minutes had gone by and I was ready to have them break the window and get her out. BUT, the locksmiths showed up in less than 3 minutes and had the door open within minutes. I pulled out my red cheeked, sweaty little girl who just wanted to hug her mommy and was very thirsty. After all the commotion things turned out ok and Macie was flirting with all of the cops and FD guys. I was so lucky that the cop was there initially, eventhough I felt bad for the big deal it caused. Everyone was so nice to me eventhough I was the stupid mom who locked my baby in the car. Come on, who does that???