Bena Mae’s Kitchen: Now where did I park my car?

Many people have run into this situation at one time or another in their lifetime.
 They park in a crowded parking lot, take notice of where the car is so they won’t have to spend time looking for it when they get through shopping. When they exit the store they head straight to the car, put the key in the door and it doesn’t work.
Puzzled, they try again and it still doesn’t work. They look around and eventually someone comes up and says that it’s their car that you’ve mistaken for your own. Totally embarrassed, you apologize and start looking around the lot trying to find where you parked.
It’s confusing and it’s happened to all of us. Which leads me to the following story sent to me some time ago. I hooted when I read it because it carried the problem to the extreme and made the day for police officers in Sarasota, Florida. Read and enjoy:
Get out of the car!
This is supposedly a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, FL.
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping, and upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle.
She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!
The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.
The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.
She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.
A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down.
She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.
The sergeant to whom she told the story to couldn’t stop laughing.
He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.
No charges were filed.
Moral of the story? If you’re going to have a senior moment . . . make it memorable!

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Buttery Broccoli Cheese Casserole

Ingredients
2 – 10 oz. blocks of frozen chopped broccoli
10 oz. process cheese spread
    (like Velveeta), cut into cubes
1 1/2 sticks butter (3/4 cup), divided
1 sleeve Ritz crackers, crushed
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease or spray a 2 quart casserole. Cook broccoli according to package directions; drain well and set aside.
In a microwave-safe bowl,  melt the cheese spread with 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) of butter.  Stir until smooth.  Add broccoli and mix well.  Place in prepared casserole.  In a medium saucepan, melt the remaining 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter and add crushed crackers, mixing well to coat with butter.  Top broccoli mixture with buttered crumbs.
 Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-30 minutes or until bubbly and cracker crumbs begin to turn golden brown.