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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Amy :-) on June 15, 2012, 11:41:28 am
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Okay, so I was dishing up the steamed vegies tonight, and a piece of cauliflower rolled onto one of the plates and it had a slug on it. Yes, a slug :o
I always wash my vegies. How on earth did I miss a fat grey slug on white cauliflower?!
It gets worse though.
I was so shocked that I just flicked it and it went flying into the dining room, where the carpet is grey. So now there is a steamed slug on our dining room carpet, and I can't find the bloody thing anywhere :-[
I know I can count on you guys to support me and not laugh at this dreadful situation I am in... :-))
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I'm not laughing...! Hehe
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;D ;D ;D. Oops sorry I'm trying not to laugh.
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Vacuum it up
H :)
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Sorry Amy but I am peeing myself here. :D :D :D
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I'm laughing supportively! :D :D
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I'm not laughing at you.......I'm laughing with you. Honestly :D :D :D :D
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Thanks everyone... :-))
You are true friends :D :D :D
I'm sure I'll be able to laugh a bit more when I find the damn thing and can stop stressing that I might stand on it. Do you think that since its steamed, it wont go squish if I stand on it by accident? Maybe its like a little rubber slug.
I'm not making myself feel any better... :-\
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Well it will definitely be firm Amy but until you tread on it, we really won't know. Have you been down on your hands and knees looking for it? Are you sure it went there and not onto someone elses plate ???
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Sorry can't help myself :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I'm laughing with you Amy, thats so funny, hope you find it before you tread on it ;D ;D ;D
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seriously I am shaking from shuddering (I HATE the things ewwww) not laughter - I PROMISE!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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I'm glad everyone is enjoying this drama. So I will enlighten you all with the latest development :-))
My boxer dog is currently wearing a similar expression to the one in the picture Gert posted. Can you guess yet?
Well, I just went into the dining room and she was chewing something. It looked like she had whatever it was stuck in her teeth but she managed to get it down the hatch before I could catch her.
I don't know if it was the slug or not. I still haven't found it anywhere else so I guess it must have been?
How gross.
But it does prove that steamed slugs are a bit rubbery.
Yes, now I'm laughing :D :D :D :D
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well I'm still shuddering :-\ :-\ :-\
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Haha thanks for the laugh lol...... Hope the dog enjoyed its dinner. :)
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Last night. My DD was eating her fish with cauliflower and broccoli in cheese sauce, when she pointed to a dark thing covered in cheese sauce. She asked me what it was. I looked and then told her that I had served her a millipede in cheese sauce. LOL. I told her that it was the price we pay for buying locally grown, fresh veges.
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Perhaps you can start a new trend - escargots without the fiddly shells. It could be argued that your dog has a well developed haute cuisine/gourmet appreciation of the finer (greyer) things in life??
Gillian
(always look in the bright side of life.....????? Perhaps?)
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Amy, I would rather a slug on the rug instead of in my belly!
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you ladies are very nasty for laughing. Amy will u be able to eat cauliflower again
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My mother once cooked a huntsman with some silver beet. She opened up the saucepan and this enormous spider was laying on top dead. My father was annoyed because he loved silver beet. I don't think the spider liked it too much.
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Oh im sorry but i couldnt help but laugh.. Yuk though.. Its bad enough when you find them in lettuce..
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Just think of the extra protein boost your dog got - does that make it any better?
I hate slugs and am sure this same thing will happen to me one day too, so I'm not laughing too much or too loudly - more of a gentle wee snicker behind my hand!
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I had a whole other image when i first read that last post.. Lucky i reread it,.
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Oh Amy, i hope you survived the night.
your dog probably ate the slug... ;D ;D ;D ;D
sending hugs :D
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Thanks to everyone who shared similar horror stories, and to Robyn for sending much-needed hugs. They made me feel better :) And I love the pictures Mandi and Maddy :D
you ladies are very nasty for laughing. Amy will u be able to eat cauliflower again
Thanks Uni :-*
No I don't think I will. I threw the offending piece of cauliflower in the bin, but I did try and eat the rest and it just didn't taste right :( I definitely won't be able to eat cauliflower in white sauce. I'd be too scared of slugs hiding in there... :o
Oh im sorry but i couldnt help but laugh.. Yuk though.. Its bad enough when you find them in lettuce..
Yeah, but you'd think they'd be easier to spot in cauliflower, wouldn't you? I mean, cauliflower is white and slugs are grey! Just a little bit of a contrast. I still can't believe I didn't see the ugly fat thing while I was washing the vegies :-[
Just think of the extra protein boost your dog got - does that make it any better?
In regards to my dog, all I can think is how much she may have fuelled her already-very-smelly rear end expulsions :-X
But thanks anyway Cuilidh :-))
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thank you for sharing amy l had such a belly laugh this morning have not laugh that way in ages
sorry did not mean to it just came out
glad the dog enjoyed it
sometimes they hide inside under the florelets and come out once there in hot water . this happened to me once with some home grown cauli and brolli
maybe next time cook the cauli separate then add the white sauce when serving
l hate it when you chopping up home grown cabbage and you chop a worm in half yukko
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That is just gross Amy! I didn't laugh, I heaved!! :-X You poor thing!
Probably is a teeny bit funny :D :D :D :D but all I could imagine was seeing it on my dinner plate!!! :P
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Oh Dear. I have had a dreadful past few days (nothing too drastic just one thing after another) but after reading your post I have had a great laugh. Sorry - I know we were not meant to laugh but if you could know how much better I feel now I am sure you would forgive me.
Actually as I read through the comments I have alternated between laughing and feeling gross but the laugh won out. ;)
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That is just gross Amy! I didn't laugh, I heaved!! :-X You poor thing!
It sounds like I should be saying "poor astarra!" At least I didn't heave! :-))
Oh Dear. I have had a dreadful past few days (nothing too drastic just one thing after another) but after reading your post I have had a great laugh. Sorry - I know we were not meant to laugh but if you could know how much better I feel now I am sure you would forgive me.
Actually as I read through the comments I have alternated between laughing and feeling gross but the laugh won out. ;)
Always glad to make someone laugh Deniser :D Its such a good feeling and I don't think we do it enough :-)) I hope your days start to get better :-*
If anyone is interested, my dog has been letting loose much stinkier farts (is that a rude word?) since last night. So I don't think the slug agreed with her digestive system :-))
Now that I've written that, I'm thinking that not many people will probably be interested... :)
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The thought of the slug and millipede made me feel ill. I hate finding creepy crawlies in my food.
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I can't bring my self to eat field mushrooms now after seeing mushroom lice things coming out of the mushrooms when cooking. I buy them now and still tend to check just incase :(
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The thought of the slug and millipede made me feel ill. I hate finding creepy crawlies in my food.
Sorry cookie :-)) I hate finding them too, but I think finding them before you've cooked and are dishing up the meal is preferable to finding them when you're about to put the food in your mouth :-X
I can't bring my self to eat field mushrooms now after seeing mushroom lice things coming out of the mushrooms when cooking. I buy them now and still tend to check just incase :(
Oh, urky purky Mandi! :o I've never had that happen with mushrooms. Maybe I should start checking too...
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I'm sure that this is one area where some of the old religious dietary laws probably made sense. I know I have a book somewhere at home which instructs how to prepare vegetables in a kosher kitchen to ensure no creepy crawlies...maybe I should pull it out...I know I'm about to start checking my mushrooms
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Hehehehe The first time I asked my partner over for an evening meal I served yummy home grown squash with his favourite lamb shanks and when we cut the squash they had fruit fly larvae inside OPPS
Still have him 5 years later.
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I tried to kill my husband the first meal I ever made for him. I made chilli prawns..l halved the recipe but forgot to halve the amount if chilli....and he came from a family that only ever ate plain meat and three veg. He survived...barely...and we have been together for twenty years on Melbourne cup day and married 18 years this year...his palette has expanded considerably since then.
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As the mushrooms we buy are grown in big dark rooms I don't think they have that problem with the lice things.
When we were younger we used to pick heaps of field mushroom and that's when we had to be careful :)
I probably ate a few of them back then. Yuck :(
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Hope you've recovered AMy :o
Funny though, how we all react to situations though......... despite the fact that my stomach would've been squirming, I am happy to see slugs, bugs etc on my fruit and veg - we buy organic and like to know that other creatures will still eat the food we're eating ;D :D
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Lol thanks for sharing those stories berringamababe and stacelee :) How nice that both of you are still with your partners after such unfortunate first-dinner experiences! ;)
As the mushrooms we buy are grown in big dark rooms I don't think they have that problem with the lice things.
Is that really where the mushrooms in C and WW come from?
Even if you did eat some of those lice things Mandi, it doesn't sound like they did you any harm... :-))
Hope you've recovered AMy :o
Funny though, how we all react to situations though......... despite the fact that my stomach would've been squirming, I am happy to see slugs, bugs etc on my fruit and veg - we buy organic and like to know that other creatures will still eat the food we're eating ;D :D
Thanks Tam :) And you're right. If not even a slug would eat that cauliflower, I don't think I would want to either! :-))
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Amy, sorry, but its so funny... ;D
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i still feel all of you ladies a very nasty
love u amy :-*
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i still feel all of you ladies a very nasty
love u amy :-*
Thanks Uni, love you too :-* :D
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Lol. Amy you do know we all love you.
Don't worry we will pick on someone else soon ;D
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Lol. Amy you do know we all love you.
Don't worry we will pick on someone else soon ;D
Thanks Mandi, I certainly do feel loved on the forum :D And I try to show everyone the same love too :-*
Hmm, I'm curious to see who will get the next picking on... it would probably be me again if I told you what I did today :-))
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Oh oh do tell :D
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Um... I somehow managed to lock both sets of keys in my car... :-[
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Hey when I was young my dad feed the sheep grain, he used big drums to put the grain in on the back of his ute. When the drums were empty my brother and I used to squat down in the drums on the back of the ute on the way back to the house.
But one day when I was a little older and we feed the sheep their grain my brother and I squared down inside the drums as usual, but I got stuck. I was locked in between my knees and my back and couldn't get out. My dad had to roll me off the back of the ute to get me out. My mum laughed so much and all I could do is cry.
My dad still tells everyone that story 30+ years later. :D
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Um... I somehow managed to lock both sets of keys in my car... :-[
Oh I have done that before Amy. That's not fun at all. I didn't lock both keys in but my spare keys were 150klm away :o
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Hey when I was young my dad feed the sheep grain, he used big drums to put the grain in on the back of his ute. When the drums were empty my brother and I used to squat down in the drums on the back of the ute on the way back to the house.
But one day when I was a little older and we feed the sheep their grain my brother and I squared down inside the drums as usual, but I got stuck. I was locked in between my knees and my back and couldn't get out. My dad had to roll me off the back of the ute to get me out. My mum laughed so much and all I could do is cry.
My dad still tells everyone that story 30+ years later. :D
That must have been really scary :o You poor thing :(
Um... I somehow managed to lock both sets of keys in my car... :-[
Oh I have done that before Amy. That's not fun at all. I didn't lock both keys in but my spare keys were 150klm away :o
That makes me feel slightly better... but my keys are still locked in my car, in plain sight between the seats, and my car is parked on the front lawn :-[
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Oh, how are you going to get them out?
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Lol. Amy you do know we all love you.
Don't worry we will pick on someone else soon ;D
PICK ON DEDE TIME ;D
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Do you have a spare set of keys anywhere ???
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Oh, how are you going to get them out?
I'm still working on it... :(
Lol. Amy you do know we all love you.
Don't worry we will pick on someone else soon ;D
PICK ON DEDE TIME ;D
LOL :D What are we picking on her for? Fun? ;)
Do you have a spare set of keys anywhere ???
Yep. In the car :-))
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Amy, have you got the keys out yet? Are you a member of the, what is it called in your State, we call it the RAA (Royal Automobile Asscn here in SA) - they'll come and pick the lock and get in for you.
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The keys still taunting me in the car Judy :(
I think we have the RAC. But I will have to wait until tomorrow since it is now 6:45pm. I just hope no dishonest people walk past my car and see the keys there. Luckily, my bedroom is at the front of the house so I should hear any windows being smashed and then I can run outside and yell or swear or both. The sight of me in my nightie would scare anyone off without the yelling or swearing though ;)
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Doesn't the RAC have a 24hour call out policy?
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...do they? Google time!
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Of course they do Amy, get on the phone quick smart.
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yep 24hr - call them Amy!!! if you don't have roadside then I suggest you join at the time you ring them ... will be cheaper than anyone else to come out ;) ;)
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amy
you need to be a paid up member for roadside asstance for at least 24 hours before you call the rac for a call out otherwise they slug you with a high bill
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Hey when I was young my dad feed the sheep grain, he used big drums to put the grain in on the back of his ute. When the drums were empty my brother and I used to squat down in the drums on the back of the ute on the way back to the house.
But one day when I was a little older and we feed the sheep their grain my brother and I squared down inside the drums as usual, but I got stuck. I was locked in between my knees and my back and couldn't get out. My dad had to roll me off the back of the ute to get me out. My mum laughed so much and all I could do is cry.
My dad still tells everyone that story 30+ years later. :D
Dede, i haven't laughed until I have cried for so long. Sorry, i am sure it would have been traumatic for you, but thanks for sharing.
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Having a great belly laugh reading this thread..
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Did you get the keys out.
We have RACQ here.
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Bedlam I'm glad it made you laugh. And yes at the time it was traumatic, probably more so as my mum was laughing so much. But I still remember that feeling of being stuck and not being able to get out. My dad had to get me to relax so he could pull me out. But my mum found the whole thing hilarious. (I would of laughed to in her situation :D
I never got in that drum ever again after that.
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And we have RACT here in Tassie.
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You girls surely know how to cheer oneself up.
This morning I had to squash a bug. It looked like a little scorpion..... I was freakin as scorpions are deadly. Never seen one before apart from on the TV and now I am scared the whole house is infected with scorpions :'(
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Oh dear.. Thanks for the kaugh.. Amy i do hope you got your keys out by now :(
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Most scorpions arent deadly dg but they do hurt when they sting you.. Dad got bitten years ago and we thought they were highly poisonous too but apparently alot arent however it hurt like hell..or so im told! We were a bit frantic though ringing emergency etc
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OH thanks Frozzie, I will be able to sleep tonight now. Hate bugs and creepy craw;ies, snakes spiders etc. I am such a wimp.
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I was told that if you somehow manage to put a ring of fire around a scorpion it will sting itself to death.
:-))
Personally, if I needed to kill it, I would just smack it with a brick.
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Lol amy
Br careful though dg as apparently when they bite it feels like getting stuck deep with a needle..
We only had one in the house whendad got bitten but have no clue how it got there..
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We get a few scorpions in the house each year. They are only small but nasty little things. I caught the kitten playing with one the other day. No one has been bitten by them here but I have been told they do hurt.
My DH had a nasty wake up call from a wasp that stung him while he was asleep. I'm guessing it came in on the washing. Ouch :(
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Ouch poor DH.
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We have the RACV here in Victoria. I've never been a member though. My dad's a mechanic... :-) I have locked my keys in my car though, it was funny because I had keyless entry and still managed to do it. I left them in the boot... Lol. When I bought my new car a couple of years ago my dad took the spare key straight off me. Hehe. And the spare key to my apartment when I moved in, too. I haven't done it since, though. And I'm too scared and too careful to lose my apartment keys. If I lose them I can't get back into the building or up the elevator to my floor because we have electronic entry to the building. I also can't lock the apartment door without the key, so that has helped!
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We have the RACV here in Victoria. I've never been a member though. My dad's a mechanic... :-)
Lucky you... I could use a mechanical dad :-)) I hardly know anything about cars. I do know that mine shouldn't have locked itself though :(
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I hardly know anything about cars. I do know that mine shouldn't have locked itself though :(
It locked itself, huh?
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Yep. Both sets of keys were in the car, so its impossible that I could have locked it.
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Yep. Both sets of keys were in the car, so its impossible that I could have locked it.
Do you have keyless entry? With a lot of cars with keyless entry if you don't open the driver's door within a certain amount of time it locks itself again.
Question though, why were your SPARE set in your car? It kind of defeats the purpose of a spare set of keys...
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Yep. Both sets of keys were in the car, so its impossible that I could have locked it.
Do you have keyless entry? With a lot of cars with keyless entry if you don't open the driver's door within a certain amount of time it locks itself again.
Question though, why were your SPARE set in your car? It kind of defeats the purpose of a spare set of keys...
My car is pretty old, so I don't think it would have somthing that sophisticated... :-))
LOL ;D My car is really dodgy. It only cost me $2000, and sometimes it decides not to work with a certain key and button-thing. So I always need to have both sets when I go out :-\
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That's a bit of a pain. I don't have to worry about cars and keys anymore. I don't have a car anymore! lol. Did you end up getting it unlocked?
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lol I would love not to need a car. I actually don't like them at all :P
Um... no, I didn't :-[ I rang the RAC and they said it was $150 call-out fee because I wasn't a member, but if I was a member with an upgraded membership I could get the service for free. So I applied for membership and upgraded it on the same day, so that should come into effect by tomorrow or Thursday. This way I'm covered if it ever happens again, which it probably will since my car is so #%$*.
I just have to keep an eye on my car in the meantime. Luckily in this weather the windows get frosty so you can't see inside it :-))
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Good news Amy