Episode 22 – 👍 Hitch hiker 🚙

 

I think that I might be in a bit of trouble!

Mum and Dad both worked full time. They would travel to work in their cars every weekday. Once a week, dad would take me to Gran’s house for me to stay with her for company and to give rest bite from Nanna who looked after me when Mum and Dad were working.

Dad had a car seat in the back of his car for H and Pips. I liked to sit on this seat when they were not using this as it allowed me to sit higher in the car and look out of the window more which I loved. As a family we would go on many wonderful adventures in the car. I liked trips to the seaside but really, I just loved being out and about with the family. If I wasn’t in the back seat my favourite place was towards the front sitting between the two front seats on the central armrest near to the gear lever. Dad had taken me when I was really young to see mum at her work which was great fun despite being a little scared by the car ride. But often wondered what my dad’s work was like?  

Mornings were quite chaotic during the week with mum and dad getting ready to go to work whilst getting R, H and Pips ready for their day. I was normally taken to Nanna’s house where I would spend the day with Nanna and Grandad which was fun, but I always liked coming home when Mum picked me up after work and we could all be together as a family again.

One day, Dad was running very late for work (this happened quite regularly but he would never admit this!) he rushed into the car and battled rush hour traffic to make it to work on time – just! He had to go through an automatic barrier to get to his office and park the car. As he was rushing, he did not pay much attention to his surroundings. As he leant over to the back seat to pick up his stuff he quickly checked to see if he had everything: coat – check, bag for work – check, keys – check, ID pass to get into the office – check, Mazie sitting in the child seat – check……wait a minute what was the last item? He looked more intensely this time to see that I had decided to take a trip to work with him and while he was rushing to get out the house, I had snook into the backseat of the car, kept a very low profile so that he would not notice, and enjoyed a trip to work with him.

Do you think anyone has spotted me yet?

“Why you little…….” He exclaimed, I just smiled at him a gave him a friendly wag of my tail. He now was in a bit of a panic as he did not have time to take me to Nann’s house and really needed to go into work…..what was he going to do? Thankfully, Gran lived very close to where Dad worked and he made a very urgent panic call to see if she could look after me with no notice. With luck, she was in the house and could look after me, I just gave a cheeky smile! So I spent the rest of the day with Gran until dad came back for me after work and I got another ride in his car – result!

After that day he always checked the rear of his car with real car so that I could not sneak to work with him again. He thought it was really funny after the panic had settled down.

Anyway, off to hitch hike a ride in the car without anyone noticing!

TTFN,

Mazie

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