Is it tomorrow, yet?

Boy, what a day!

This morning started out great - we went to a fundraiser breakfast for a lady with cancer with our friends, the Bees. It was all you can eat and filled us right up.

Then we headed downtown to turn in the art projects the girls and the Bees had made for display. All 15 of us rode up in the elevator to the third floor just fine. We presented the art and left the office to go down stairs. The artwork will be returned at the end of April. Kitty was worried she wouldn't get hers back.

That was when the fun began.

We entered the same elevator that took us upstairs. We've done this many times before, in other buildings. Sometimes, even with Miss Bee's scooter. We went down to the third floor where two ladies got out. Unfortunately, when the elevator stopped, it was about 6 inches below the second level floor. We weren't too concerned about this, but we should have been.

The elevator doors closed, but we didn't move down. At least, not much.

The button panel showed the first floor, as did the numbers above the door. Unfortunately, the doors didn't open. We attempted to push the alarm button, which didn't work. After several tries, we were finally able to get it to ring, but only if we held it down.

No one answered the call. Finally, Miss Bees dialed 911. Mommy was sure the operator was a little surprised that she was calling from an elevator and that no one was coming to help us.

An HOUR later, with several patronizing remarks made by one man we couldn't see, the elevator doors finally opened. We were halfway down from the second level floor. Meaning, half of the doorway of the elevator was above the second level floor. We had to lift out about half of the kids so the firefighters could lower a ladder into the elevator so the rest of us could climb out.

Can you believe it!

But, hold on, it's not done yet!

We had parked in front of the building. Mommy had only put enough change in the parking meter for twenty minutes, sure that is would be enough.

Well, we come out of the building and there is a parking ticket on Mommy's car! The firefighters gave us some contact information of an officer at their station who could help us make sure that the ticket was voided.

So, we were off to the City-County building to ask about the ticket. When we found a parking space, the meter read 40 minutes left. Praise God! Mommy added two more dimes to make it 56 minutes. We walked to the building and through the security scanners with no problem.

The office that takes care of tickets was more like theater box office windows. We had to wait in line in order to say that we wanted to see someone about the ticket. Sadly, other people with different issues were rerouted from another window to be in front of us. After a good 45 minutes, we finally were able to get to the window. We were told that we needed to set up a court date to talk to a judge about the ticket. The earliest court date available was May 28th!!!

So, we set up the date and was told we needed documentation from the fire department that the call actually occurred. Once we have this, we can call a phone number to see IF they will void the ticket at that time. If they don't, then we are off to court.

When we finally got back to the car, the meter had only 4 minutes left.

Yippee.

So, is it tomorrow, yet?