We finished the car wash and as we left the rainbow grape experience, I stopped dead in my tracks. The doors, windows, mirrors- everything- had turned to ice and I was stuck with a tie dyed car. In fact, it was so thickly covered in a frozen "60s" design, I was unable to see where I was going.

I turned around and headed back to the entrance where the attendant just laughed his head off. He asked me why I was dumb enough to wash my car on the coldest day of the season, and smirked that I probably wouldn't be able to open my car doors an hour from now. You don't want to know what I said to him, nor can it be repeated here. But I took his comments to heart and turned up the heat full blast and drove around the block more than a few times, hoping to warm up the car enough to ward off an ice disaster.

We continued on our way to the restaurant, while my daughter began freaking out that after we ate, we'd be locked out of the frozen car. My ADHD brain kicked in as I thought of all the options, should that indeed happen. Did the restaurant have a blow torch for their crème brûlée and for browning the tops of meringue pies and baked Alaskas? In a pinch, I could use that to de-ice the door. Wait, no...this was a pizza joint. Could I get the dishwashing crew to toss boiling water down the seam of the door? No...I think that might destroy my paint job. I could have sat there for quite a long time, thinking of ways to get into a frozen car, but my daughter reminded me it was going to be midnight before I came up with a real solution. So we got out, crossed our fingers and entered the restaurant.

Luckily, when we finished and returned to the car, we had no problem opening the doors. The car wash guy must still be laughing.

Nearly every day, I experience something ADHD related that can either make me laugh or bring me to my knees. In years past, before I understood and accepted my ADHD, the latter would have been the norm. But with years of experience and being at a place where I'm pretty comfortable in my own ADHD skin, I can honestly say that I laugh about these mishaps. Well, most of the time, anyway.

Do you have any funny ADHD stories to share?