STUFF HAPPENS...

SUNSITES - Left Willcox, AZ around 11:00 and it was just a hop, skip, and a jump (30-40 minutes) to the little town of Sunsites where my friend Claire and her husband live. There's a golf course somewhere around here, so residents buzz around town on their golf buggies.

After popping in to the town's Visitor Center and picking up a few postcards, I called Claire and told her I had arrived. She drove over to meet me and we went to her house. Hung out there for a few hours, till her husband got home.

I had decided I wanted to spend the night in Tombstone, and they decided to go, too, so we could have dinner together. So they hopped on their motorbike, and we all headed down the highway. It took about an hour.

TOMBSTONE - When we arrived, I got a room at a Holiday Inn Express, then I followed them over to a little restaurant they knew about. So far, so good. Then...

DISASTER STRIKES - ALMOST - When we got to the restaurant, I wanted to take a picture of my friends out in front, so I got out of the car with my camera, leaving the car door open, since we were right there. As Claire walked past the car, she was trying to be helpful and shut the door. Only problem was, I had already pushed the lock down, and my purse - WITH THE KEY - was inside the car. OOPS.

A very friendly waiter at the restaurant claimed he could somehow get it open with a coat hanger (I had my doubts about that), but before that, he called the Tombstone marshall's office to see if they could send someone over to help. Well, no, they couldn't. Then my friends called some kind of roadside rescue service that they subscribe to. They had a hard time getting thru, but finally did, and were told that they'd send a guy out in about an hour. So we proceeded with our dinner. We sat outside on the restaurant's patio, so we had my car in full view at all times.

When the rescue man arrived, he was rather brusque and unfriendly, and get this - didn't even have a flashlite with him. DOH! But after a lot of poking around with a long metal rod, he finally popped the locks. HALLELUJAH and praise the Lord!

So all was once again well with the world.