Unlock The Door Please.....

I took a personal day from work on Thursday so I could tend to some important personal business. I'll be sure to fill you fine people in on that business at another time. Anyhow, I was able to finish up my appointment by 3:00PM so that meant I would have a few hours to spend with my lovely wife. One catch though, we would have Monsters, Inc, The Trilogy with us.

I refer to all of my sons as "Monsters". My stepson Daniel, was a monster when I began to date Leigh back in '99. He's the original Monsters, Inc. Matthew is a monster too. He's Monsters, Inc Part 2. And little Zachary is the most terrible monster of them all. He is Monsters, Inc, the The Trilogy.

Leigh wanted to head over to Comal CrossFit so she could get a workout in. All good, since I could watch Zachary while she exercised, then we could head over to pick up Matthew from school once she finished. It was a beautiful Comal County late afternoon. Leigh got to do her thing while Zachary and I walked around the property throwing rocks and doing all those other things that toddlers like to do.

Once Leigh got done, I let Zach play in the Tahoe while Leigh and I shot the bull with some of our friends. I could keep an eye on him in the vehicle, and the weather was nice and cool so he would be good to go in there. We decided that we needed to go, and walked over to the Tahoe. Zach is in there playing like crazy and having a good time. I try to open the door, but it's locked. It's locked and Monsters, Inc, The Trilogy is holding the keys. Not only is he holding the keys, but I am completely sure that he is taunting Leigh and I. We're saying; "Press the button Zachary. Unlock the door.....", in the sweetest parental voices we can muster. It's funny. I can't lie. It's funny because of the way he is actively taunting us. He's pointing at the lock as if to say, "What? This???", and smiling in the way that those 2 1/2 year old monsters smile. He's in heaven playing in the vehicle.

Monsters, Inc, The Trilogy and his cookie.

This goes on between 5-10 minutes, and finally we decide to ignore him for a while so he will get bored with the whole game. Tommy Williams is coaching the class that is taking place while all this is going on, and he decides to give it a shot. Ten seconds later the door is open and Monsters, Inc, The Trilogy is out of the vehicle. You see, Tommy is a firefighter for the city of San Antonio, and hard as it might be to believe, Zach is not the first monster to lock his parents out of the vehicle. According to Tommy, they have gotten 911 calls from parents that can't get in their cars because of their monsters. An old firefighter trick is to simply ask the monster if they want some ice cream or a cookie. Tommy's offer of a cookie was just too much for The Trilogy to pass up. He opened the door and wanted his cookie. Leigh and I laughed about this incident on the way home, but we both figured we better deliver the cookie just in case this ever were to happen again.

I figure we all have some doors we would like to have opened, and promises of cookies might not always work. If not, we can always follow this advice:

"Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened."