Hubby and I have been away from home working in Ohio for the last 4 weeks, we headed back home on Saturday morning.
Drive was going smooth and moods were up....then we get stuck on the Chicago skyway in bumper to bumper traffic....creeping along so close to home....then it clears up and we start moving again....wooooohoooo!!
Driving along at 68mph and everything goes dead!
No gages were working at all!
We carefully make our way over to the right shoulder from the left lane and the BEAST (hubs truck) dies!
We are only 138 miles from home and worn out from 16 hour workdays, just wanting to get home
We call for a wrecker and start the wait, we know that since it is a Saturday evening that our chances of getting our car fixed is a big fat ZERO...we know that we will be hiring a cab, finding a hotel and waiting till Monday hoping to get the car looked at.
So there we are hubby, me and little BeBe the dog standing on the side of the very busy skyway with cars whipping past us, hot as can be!
Then I spot it!!
The red wrecker!!!
I am so happy that I start jumping up and down waving and smiling!
The guy jumps out of the truck and I give him a huge hug! LOL
He hooks the BEAST up and loads us in to his nice airconditioned cab...ahhhh.
He said he has never been greeted so nicely before, that most people are yelling and mad by the time he gets to them.
He suggested a nice hotel and a good garage for the car and was prepared to take us there.
We already figured out it was the alternator, so I just said in joking "to bad there is not someone who could just drop a new one in for us tonight, since we are so close to home".
He said "I was a mech for 15 years, lets go see if the auto parts store is open, and I will be glad to do it for you, you are such nice people and thats rare in my business and in my town".
We were dumbstruck!!!
We went to his home (very modest) and got his tools and went to the auto parts store....guess what? they had ONE left in stock!
He repaired the BEAST in a matter of 20 min!!!!
What a wonderful man!!
We had a heck of a time getting him to take any money for his trouble!
There are still wonderful people in this world and I was blessed to have met one of them!
Thank you JIM!!!!!
Drive was going smooth and moods were up....then we get stuck on the Chicago skyway in bumper to bumper traffic....creeping along so close to home....then it clears up and we start moving again....wooooohoooo!!
Driving along at 68mph and everything goes dead!
No gages were working at all!
We carefully make our way over to the right shoulder from the left lane and the BEAST (hubs truck) dies!
We are only 138 miles from home and worn out from 16 hour workdays, just wanting to get home
We call for a wrecker and start the wait, we know that since it is a Saturday evening that our chances of getting our car fixed is a big fat ZERO...we know that we will be hiring a cab, finding a hotel and waiting till Monday hoping to get the car looked at.
So there we are hubby, me and little BeBe the dog standing on the side of the very busy skyway with cars whipping past us, hot as can be!
Then I spot it!!
The red wrecker!!!
I am so happy that I start jumping up and down waving and smiling!
The guy jumps out of the truck and I give him a huge hug! LOL
He hooks the BEAST up and loads us in to his nice airconditioned cab...ahhhh.
He said he has never been greeted so nicely before, that most people are yelling and mad by the time he gets to them.
He suggested a nice hotel and a good garage for the car and was prepared to take us there.
We already figured out it was the alternator, so I just said in joking "to bad there is not someone who could just drop a new one in for us tonight, since we are so close to home".
He said "I was a mech for 15 years, lets go see if the auto parts store is open, and I will be glad to do it for you, you are such nice people and thats rare in my business and in my town".
We were dumbstruck!!!
We went to his home (very modest) and got his tools and went to the auto parts store....guess what? they had ONE left in stock!
He repaired the BEAST in a matter of 20 min!!!!
What a wonderful man!!
We had a heck of a time getting him to take any money for his trouble!
There are still wonderful people in this world and I was blessed to have met one of them!
Thank you JIM!!!!!
Jim may not have been a little but he surely is a big angel.
