a perfect storm

why is it that the first time you use your huge double stroller with your 2 children the following happen:
* it's raining
* you don't have all the components to hook the car seat on properly for your infant
* the baby wakes up
* the toddler throws a temper tantrum
* you can't get the stupid thing to unfold while you're standing in a mud puddle ankle deep and your pants are soaked and falling down and your hair is flat and in your eyes...
* and you can't get the seats to recline properly so your poor toddler is sitting up at a 90 degree angle....

so you power through and get inside and do what you have to do and then when you come back out to your car and get ready to load in all the children a man decides he needs your space b/c it's 2 spaces closer to the door than the other available spaces so you, being still unfamiliar with your stroller have to take care of the following in 5 minutes so as not to make said man wait:

* unhook impossibly latched infant car seat
* jostle infant into screaming fit
* latch infant into car in backseat (also note the lock on the back door that leads to the infant base doesn't work so you have to reach in from the front passenger to unlock it but you can't get a good grip b/c it was raining before so your hands are wet from touching the car...
* get baby in while toddler starts to scream and stroller starts strolling down the parking lot without you
* unload wet crying toddler who wants their juice which is buried inside your industrial diaper bag for mother's of two...
* come back to the stroller, put all the seats to their upright positions and try to remember the tricky combination of latches and levers to pull in order to fold stroller
* open your trunk and life 500 pound stroller to place inside only to remember that stroller doesn't fit in your trunk...
* haul it to the front seat which you must clear of huge diaperbag and smash your $200 stroller inside and kick the bottom wheels with your feet when they decide to stop budging
* run to the other side of the car and jump in (on the huge diaper bag that there is no longer room for inside of the car)
* get out and put diaper bag in the trunk
* get back in car with screaming babies
* back out slowly as you can't see out any window of the car as they are blocked by babies, stroller and car seats
* wave to the man with appropriate finger for making you rush through your first experience putting away "the beast" which is the new name for your slightly less fabulous stroller now that's it's been squished in the front seat after a rain storm.

the end!