2. Pack some drinks and plates and a package of cream-cheese brownies you’d accidentally purchased earlier.
3. Get a random text from your friend Mary and invite her to join you.
4. Tell her to meet you among the terraced flowers at Ellis Park.
5. Drive to Noelridge Park and realize that you can’t get to the terraced flowers because of all the damn endless construction.
6. Text Mary to tell her to meet you at Thomas Park instead.
7. Realize in a moment of panic that you’d originally sent her to the wrong park.
8. POTENTIAL MORTAL EMBARRASSMENT AVERTED!
9. Meet up at THOMAS PARK and start enjoying your evening together.
10. Collectively notice out of the corners of your eyes a young mommy chasing her little toddler toward a storm drain at the edge of the parking lot.
11. Watch the mom catch up to the little girl just as she threw something down the drain.
12. Watch the mom and dad look at each other in a wave of cheek-draining incredulity.
13. Walk over to see if they need anything and find out that their little girl had thrown their car keys into the sewer.
14. Marvel at their Zen-like calmness.
15. Realize that they honestly have no idea what to do, so find the local non-emergency police number for them and offer to drive one of them home to get a second set of keys.
16. Wait with them until the police and then a fire truck show up.
17. Watch the responders initially stand around and look confused ... then get some massive tools from their vehicles ... then pry up the drain cover ... then fish around in it with some long hooky tools ... AND FIND THE KEYS!
18. High-five everyone.
19. Finish your cream-cheese brownies.
20. Completely fail at getting the dog to look at the camera for a group selfie.
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