Locked In, Almost...

I wish this weather would make up its mind. I just get my central heat fixed and wouldn't you know it, the cold snaps and we are back to 70 degree plus weather once again. The flux in temperature is playing havoc with my immune system. So basically I've been sick on and off for the last week or so, and when I'm sick my sleep schedule gets thrown completely out of whack. So I woke up late today but as it turns out just in time to avoid something pretty inconvenient.

I got ready just like any morning, grabbed my bag, and headed out the door. But as I approached the parking lot something struck me as odd. My car appeared to be the only one in the parking lot except for a massive truck, similar to the ones that haul gasoline but shorter. When I got closer, I realized what the truck carried the liquid asphalt they use to repave parking lots. Somehow I had missed all the no parking signs yesterday warning tenants that management had chosen today to repave the entire parking lot. My heart seized for a second as I realized that my car might be locked in by a sea of slow drying dark asphalt, a prison of my own inattention.

Luckily there was one narrow path around the truck and out of the parking lot. A few minutes later and I would have been completely locked in. I was quickly able to flag down the construction workers, get them to momentarily stop, and maneuver my car to freedom. As I left the parking lot I could see where all the other cars had gone. They lined the sidewalks of the street just outside the parking lot all the way down to the next complex and beyond. I gave a sigh of relief realizing that all I would be today was late to work, and not stranded at home with no viable transportation. Sometimes it pays to be lucky.