Girl Scouting at its finest...

As I was leaving work one day last week I had a brief conversation with Michelle. It went something like this.

Michelle: “You’re leaving just in time. The rain just started.”
Me: “Oh, great.” (sarcastically)
Michelle: “Don’t you have your umbrella with you?”
Me: “Yes, I do. It’s right here in my purse.” : )
Michelle: “You’re like a freakin’ girl scout…always prepared.”

We both chuckled as I walked out the front doors, and popped my automatic umbrella open for the walk to my car. I was pleased that I had remembered to bring my umbrella in after hearing a weather report on my way to work stating, “Rain and possible thunderstorms expected this afternoon.”

Later that evening, I went tanning. Right as I walked in the door to the tanning place, my left flip-flop flipped its last flop. In other words, it broke and my foot went sliding out the front of my sandal. I scooted my foot back into the broken sandal and shuffled my feet across the floor to the check-in desk. Luckily no one saw my "flip-flop malfunction". After the girl behind the desk checked me in, she walked away and I picked up my shoe and hurried into my tanning bed room. When I lay down in the bed I started thinking, “how am I going to get out of here with a broken shoe?” (Keep in mind that it had been raining so the ground outside was wet and puddley.) Walking out barefoot was not an option in my mind. Then the light bulb went on. “I can use the rubber band from my ponytail to hold my foot and shoe together to make it to the car!” As soon as I was done tanning, I took my hair out of the ponytail to free up the rubber band for a greater purpose…instant shoe repair! Viola! It worked perfectly. Michelle would say that it was another “girl scout” moment : ) If I hit you up to buy cookies from me next spring, now you’ll know why…