Our Grandmas #1 --Emissions Test

Today my parents and I went to take the car through an emissions test and I was reminded of something GREAT about my grandma…my grandma is always doing the CRAZIEST stuff you see…which is rather scary. I keep catching glimpses of my possible future;) Anyways, it was a while ago and we were all together and while we were on the right side of town for it (where my Grandma lives) we took my sister’s car through an emissions test. :) :) heh heh.

Sooo, the guy that was taking it didn’t speak very good English, and the earplugs he was wearing didn't help...but that should’ve been no problem because now they just plug somethin’ in the car into the computer and it’s a quick and easy process…usually. We got there, and my Mom and sister got out of the car, leaving my grandma and I inside (first bad move) and go into this booth thing and the guy is like gesturing and telling us in broken English that we can wait in the car. So we agree…

Well, first they have to scan some little barcode thingy that’s on the car…it’s usually on the driver door but it apparently wasn’t ‘cause the guy was having a cow about it and telling us to look for it. So my grandma decided to help him find it…so she leaned across, right on the steering wheel, and HONKED it super loud, and scared herself out of her socks!

But she recovered and kept looking. Well she was leaning against everything, and she turned on the windshield wipers and the fluid! So all of a sudden the guy gets sprayed with the cleaning fluid for the windshield and all freaked out (He was probably saying bad things about us in Spanish…haha) and is motioning to the windshield wipers and is like “TURN OFF! TURN OFF!” So my grandma is like “WELL, I’m trying!” and fumbles around with every knob, turning the lights on and who knows what!

So my sister came running out of the booth thing and was like “Grandma, StoP! You just flip this switch!” Hahaha…so my Grandma leans back and is muttering stuff about not understanding what he was saying anyways.

Within a few minutes, my sister had located what he was looking for and we were off…

This is not EVEN unusual when my Mom, my sister, my Grandma and I get together. It is in fact just ONE of the many stories...

-Cara