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I like reading the BYU Police Beats, but this one from June 2 got by me until I finally read it today. I kind of have a hard time believing it.

You’ve heard the one about the woman who locked herself inside her car with a dead battery and phoned for help to get out of the car, right? Well, it really happened in Orem Friday. The woman called police on her cell phone after her car battery died and efforts to unlock the doors to let herself out proved futile.

“Occasionally, a mother or father will accidentally lock their small child or children inside the car and urgent help is needed; however, we don’t often get these kind of calls for assistance,” Lt. Doug Edwards said in a news release. “I’m just glad she had a cell phone to call for help.”

Police arrived and tried to assist the woman, but she couldn’t understand the officers outside the vehicle. Using hand gestures, the woman instructed them to call her on her cell phone. After getting the woman on the phone, police instructed the woman how she could manually operate the lock mechanism on the inside door panel to free herself, police said.

“I’d hate to think that people could actually put themselves in jeopardy because they didn’t remember or understand that car door locks will work manually,” Edwards said.

Unlike last year, this year I was able to attend the BYU vs. Utah game, and it was incredible. I was re-watching a recording of the end of this year’s game from Saturday, and with 1:13 left in the game, 4th down and 19 to go, the announcers made this comment:

Final play of the game offensively for BYU…

The actual last offensive play of the game for BYU came some 35 seconds of play clock later, as Max Hall threw a two point conversion pass to Collie just after Unga ran the ball in for a touch down, giving BYU a 7 point lead.

Please, announcers on the mtn. channel, don’t say a play is the last of the game unless it actually is.

Today I was thinking about a past situation of mine.  For a second I thought:

How could I have been so stupid!?

Then I started thinking about the situation, and I realized that I currently find myself in a very similar situation, making all the same mistakes.  Maybe now that I realize this, I can pull myself out of the depths of conundrums and cease making the same mistakes.