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We just got back from our trip to Arkansas, visiting our friends, the Palenske’s (see Friends, Part II). It was somewhat uneventful, as far as tragedies go. Except for my locking the keys, my purse, our cell phones and everything else in the car when we made a potty stop for Logan at the Missouri/Arkansas state line. It’s wonderful that we have OnStar. It is amazing – they can unlock your car doors from a satellite! However, you have to know the phone number to call to ask them to do this. I have it programmed in my cell phone, which again, is locked in the car. The clerk in the gas station was so nice to let us use hers, but we couldn’t remember the number. I finally called Tiffany, my daughter, back home to have her call information to get the number and call us back with it. I didn’t want the call to information to be charged to the nice clerk’s cell phone account. Once we were able to get past the interference on the connection, Tiffany finally understood what I was telling her. She called information, got the number and called us back. We called OnStar, they asked for our password (which we could actually remember) and – voila! The doors unlock in an instant! Cool! Incidentally, this is not the first time we’ve had to do this.
On the way down, Logan kept us quite entertained. He is quite intelligent and inquisitive for a five year-old. Sometimes he comes up with the funniest questions. Here’s how his little mind thinks: This is a conversation that we had. Just to help explain – my grandchildren call me “Bean”. I’ll explain that in a later blog.
Logan: Bean, what’s your mom’s name?
Me: My mom is your Nana. Her name is Marilyn. 
Logan: Oh. What’s your dad’s name?
Me: Grandpa Bill. He’s in Heaven with Aunt Jenny.
Logan: How did God make us?
Me: I wish I knew.
Logan: I know – He has lots of parts in Heaven. He glues us together. He has a glue gun and a glue stick. (And then) What if you put your whole hand in your mouth? (Random!!!)
Me: I don’t know….
Logan: Your hand would get stuck in your throat.
Me: No it wouldn’t – I can put my whole hand in my mouth.
Logan: No you can’t!
(Kelly, this is for you!) So….I put my whole fist in my mouth like my best friend Kelly and I used to do in high school just to prove that we could.
Logan looked at me with those huge eyes and said: Um…is it stuck in your throat?
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True….true!! But while talking to onstar at this little gas station/food mart/restaurant I could not get her cell phone to work unless I put it on speaker phone so the two girls at the counter listened to the whole conversation. When it was over and I told them the doors were unlocked one girl looked at the other one and said……Wow it sounded just like the commercial!!……..PRICELESS!
Comment by Butch January 4, 2009 @ 3:24 amA commercial for OnStar!!
Comment by judysnotes January 4, 2009 @ 11:35 pmI like the story about Logan’s questions. Last summer when we were at the Ozarks, Dad and Mel started writing them down in a journal. You should ask for those questions. They are just as random. I sometimes, I mean frequently, enforce a “No more questions!” rule in the car so I can think, or else they come without pauses.
Comment by Tiffany (daugher) January 7, 2009 @ 3:20 am