In which I turn a little pee into a long story

Ahhhh, I missed a day!  I am a NaBloPoMo failure.  Yesterday was a bit of an off day, though.  I woke up at 2:00am because I had to take care of my neurotic dog and I was never able to fall back to sleep.  In my sleepy haze the following morning, I put Jack's lunch in Ellie's backpack (she buys), so I had to rush out during my conference period to go buy Jack a lunch. Even though Tom works in the same building as Jack's preschool, he apparently could not bring him lunch.  Anyway, what should have been a 20 minute errand turned into an hour because I was so out of it.

After school, we took our normal Thursday trip to Chick-fil-A.  After eating, I was hanging out with the kids in the play area when Ellie informs me there is a huge puddle of pee in the car that is suspended from the ceiling.  I check to make sure my kids aren't the culprits (they weren't) and then tell Ellie to go tell someone since my hands were full dealing with Sam and his obsession with opening and closing the playroom door.  Ellie brings back one of the hostesses...you know, those ladies who walk around asking if you want refills.  The lady can't fit in the tube going to the car so she hands Ellie a bottle of disinfectant spray and a few paper towels.  To be fair, her English wasn't the best so I think she might not have understood the situation.  I am still a little distracted by Sam, but Ellie goes up there and sprays the entire car. She doesn't want to touch pee so she hands Jack the paper towels and tells him to clean it.  At this point I have figured out what is happening so I am yelling at Jack not to touch it and to come down.  But my sweet boy takes a single towel and starts mopping up the huge puddle of a stranger's pee.  I alternate between yelling at Jack to stop and trying to nicely convey to the lady that my son should not be cleaning that, it is someone else's pee, and whoever cleans it needs gloves.  She nods at me and then just walks out into the restaurant area and resumes asking people if they want refills.  There is still pee in the car along with disinfectant and some used paper towels.  I take a million sanitizing wipes and scrub Jack from top to bottom and then go and get the manager who was oblivious to the whole situation.  He then went and got some skinny teenager to go clean it out...with gloves.

And that, my friends, is the most eventful thing that happened to us all week.  It is an exciting life we lead.