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I ALMOST had a really bad day

JonesCarpeDiem
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    I had an 8:45 podiatrist appointment this morning. I really didn't know if they would be open but I went anyway because I had a prescription to pick up in that same area so, I knew it wouldn't be a wasted trip.

     The podiatrist said patients just weren't showing up and he'd had to cut back to three days a week.

I SHOWED UP! 

I was asking him questions.

Can you tell I'm speaking through a mask?

Do you do haircuts? 

      So, he finishes and I go to get my Rx. I needed eggs and a phone card so I picked those up while I was there. After picking up the eggs and phone card I went to the Pharmacy.

      When I got to the counter, I realized I didn't have my phone OR MY KEYS!

After getting my prescription I retraced my steps but no keys. I checked out and decided to go look in my truck to see if both were in there before I hit the panic button.

I explained my situation to the door monitors as I left and asked if they would call AAA for me then, went to my truck to see what I could see.

(There was no lizard in a crack standin' up for me.)

The phone was there but no keys.

I have road service but even if they got in my truck, they'd have to tow me home. 

I headed back inside and just as I entered, an associate handed me my keys.

Someone had just turned them in.

Not such a bad day after all!

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.