All idiot's eve

So after I picked the girls up from their mother's, where they were trick-or-treating, I lost my car keys. While the girls were locked in the car. Yep. Girls in the car. Door locked. No keys.

I had gone into their mom's quickly to get their school clothes and back packs. When I went in, I had my cell phone and keys in hand. When I came out, I also had two back packs, two pairs of pants, two shirts, two pairs of sneakers, two jackets, and two pairs of socks in my hands. At some point, shuffling all that around, I must have dropped my keys. After looking in the darkness myself for a couple minutes, I knocked on the door for a flashlight. Before long we had two flashlights and large halogen work light out there looking in the grass and leaves for my keys. Yes, I felt like an idiot. All the while the girls were watching us with distressed looks on their faces.

I wasn't terribly worried about the girls safety, because I did have an emergency key in my wallet. However, had I used it to open the door, my alarm would have gone off and my starter would have disengaged for 17 minutes. I didn't want to do that until I was certain the keys were not findable (at which point I would have had to borrow a car to go get my extra set... which would have been a huge pain).

My ex-wife's husband did eventually find my keys. In a place I had already looked even. Luckily, the keys had fallen into Shelby's backpack, which was unzipped, while I was carrying everything. All in all, we lost about twenty minutes out of the evening (the girls still had homework to do), but it could have turned out much worse.

Either way, I am an idiot.