Weekend fun

First off I don't have pics of Chicago yet... I accidentally left my camera in Rich's car so he has all of them :) I'll get them eventually, but since I have a big test this week it'll probably be next weekend or so.

Yesterday I got to play good Samaritan. (just a side note, I always wonder how many people know where that saying actually came from :) While I was at Mom's shop getting ready to head to St. Louis, Mom saw a woman pulled over on the highway right in front of the shop. She said she looked like she needed help, but since she couldn't leave the shop she asked if I'd go ask if she needed a cell phone or anything. So I pulled over on the service road and jumped out to see if she needed anything, and she was definitely kind of frantic, poor thing. She was 8 months pregnant and following her husband home to Hermann. She said she felt like she was having a heart attack because her heart started racing and she thought she was going to pass out. So she pulled over, but her phone wasn't working. She got out, and said she felt better with some fresh air. I guess she tried flagging down some cars, because someone else pulled over on the service road and he saw her from the highway. She was using my phone to try and call her husband, who wasn't answering. So she called her Mom and told her what happened. We were tying to figure out if she wanted to go to the hospital, because she said she was scared to drive again, and she was worried that something was wrong with her pregnancy. The guy offered to drive her to the hospital in Wentzville, or to the Urgent Care in Warrenton, he even offered to drive her home to Hermann. She told him thanks for the offer but that she couldn't get in the car with a stranger. She said she would rather wait for her parents to get there (they also lived in Hermann) or for her husband, but she wasn't even sure if he saw her pull over. But then her husband came up behind her on the highway, he saw her pull over right by the exit, so he pulled off and drove all the way to Foristell to get back on the highway going west. So she told him what happened. The guy offered to bring their van to the commuter lot if she thought she wasn't going to be able to drive so that it was off the highway. So he jumped in the back of his truck and jumped the fence, and helped them move it. And that was it. The poor thing though was definitely freaked out. She thanked me about 20 times for using the phone, and she even apologized once for taking so long. I told her not to worry about it, that I wasn't in a hurry and I just hoped that everything was alright. So I went back to the shop and told Mom what happened. It was definitely interesting. I was just glad I could help her out.

Also just a funny story from last night. Rich decided when he spent $7.50 on a pack of cigarettes in Chicago that it was time to quit smoking! YAY! So he bought the Nicoderm patches, because he didn't think he could quit cold turkey. So yesterday was his first day on it. And he did very well. Last night he came down cause we were celebrating Andi's birthday by having a few drinks :) and playing Sing Star (which was a blast, I would definitely recommend it). Well in the middle of the night, I guess Rich's patch somehow came off his arm, and ended up on my back... I woke up sweating and kicked off the covers, and then I was cold. I was rolling over and over and couldn't get comfortable. I felt like I needed to move, so my arms and legs kept twitching and I couldn't fall back to sleep. Eventually I guess I did,and I slept ok from then, but when the alarm went off for Rich, I was wide awake. When I rolled over to turn it off, I felt something on my back and realized it was his patch... no wonder I couldn't sleep earlier. And then I had a killer headache. So I told Rich he's no longer allowed to wear them at night :) It's not like he smoked at night anyway. But I made myself sleep after that to try to get rid of my headache and I slept until 2 in the afternoon, crazy. Rich felt bad, but he keeps teasing me that I'll be smoking by tomorrow because of the cravings, lol.