I made the stupidest mistake which could be easily prevented yesterday :(

This was written yesterday, on Friday 28th February :( Am recording this down here to remind me how silly I was & to tell this story to Z when he is older.

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This afternoon I had an emergency crisis that made my heart beating very fast.

After Shichida class at 12.30pm, I put Z into the car seat while he was holding my car remote, the stupid me forgot to take the remote from him that the moment I closed his door, he pressed lock on the car remote. I was locked out of my car while my baby was securely fasten in the car seat with my car remote :(((((((((((. I tried to coax him to unlock the car remote by asking him to press other buttons but he kept pressing his favorite bit which was the lock button on the remote. Really stressful!

Called my car salesman & asked for my options to open my car & he said it's either spare keys, get a lock-smith or break the window. Also called SJ to inform him about my stupid mistake. He asked me what was I going to do & I replied him that I was going to break my car window.

After trying to persuade Z to press open for like 10 mins, he started to sweat & began to cry. I thought I still had the chance as long he is still randomly holding & pressing the remote but after a while, he decided to drop the remote away. It was then that I decided to break my car window. So I ran to the hardware shop located ground floor at Centrepoint & told the men working there of my emergency situation. My car was parked in front of Starbucks Centrepoint & people was wondering what was wrong with me. 3 girls sitting at Starbucks came & helped me to distract Z. They heard me speaking to Z outside of the door for a long time.

A man from the hardware shop came with a huge hammer & a screwdriver. Initially I instructed him to break the tiny small window on the right passenger side, which is opposite of Z. The girls were telling me that was not a good idea; the front driver window was better so the broken glasses would not fly to Z, which I agreed.

The man tried hitting like more than 10 times on my driver window & it didn't even crack. I was quite impressed with the tinting or the quality of my car window glass; could see the hammer bouncing off from the window. Another man came to help. I told them to try the sharp 'hook' side & they tried for a while more. Finally after like more than 20 hits & about 10 mins, the window finally cracked, they pulled the whole window out & I was able to press the central button to unlock all doors.

A huge crowd was gathered around us; wondering why this stupid woman asking people to break her car. Z was shaken with the whole incident; being hot inside & loud knocking sound but after he had some snacks, he was all smiley again. Most importantly, he is completely ok.

I am so thankful to the men that came to help me with the window & the girls for kept telling me to be calm & kept waving to entertain Z.

Lesson learnt for me: never let the kids play with your car keys/remote especially when they are in or near your car. There are many things that we often take for granted due to our busy lifestyles that has caused us to be easily distracted & not focused on the 'present'. This incident has taught & reminded me again that I need to STAY FOCUS on NOW. It's NOW that matters most.

Hope everyone had a better Friday.