My Sunday morning
I haven’t blogged in a while.. And by that I haven’t posted
any. I have written quite a few and one of these days I will get around to
posting them.. What happened today could not wait. To those of my friends who
are Christians or “believers” I think you will understand why this is such a
big deal... Others may think I’m making a big deal out of nothing. To me it is
total re-affirmation……
Backstory:
We were able to get a new car last year. That was so
awesome, the payments SUCK but I have a car that is perfect for my needs and
looks pretty awesome 2. After the last 2 of our vehicles were crap having a new
car was a big fat BLESSING and I thank God for it every day. There is absolutely
nothing wrong with it. (Our jeep was basically in pieces when we got this).
The only issue we have is one of the tires have needed to be
replaced for MONTHS but with the layoff and car payments a new tire was NOT in
our string tight budget. So our awesome nephew patched it when he was here. But
thanks to all the heat we have had it has started to hold less and less air.
Yesterday Clay re-patched it and said it may or may not have been in tight
enough but seemed to be holding air….
Today
This morning I could NOT get out of the house on time…
Anyone who know me knows I am ALWAYS early... it’s an annoyance of my entire family.
I absolutely HATE to be late. But this morning Joey and I finally got on the
road about ½ hour later than I planned….
When I left for church this morning it was at 13 (the rest
of the tires are about 30-34), so I put some more air in it and started on our
journey to church. By the time we were on the highway it was at 5……… So halfway
down 270 I pulled over and put a bit more air in it. When I started driving
again it went down to zero….And it started to rain... I called Clay and was
freaking out, going on and on about how the tire blew and I was running late
and….bla bla bla….. lol Clay then, calmly told me I was going to have to change
the tire, there was a donut in the back of the car that would have to do…. As I
was on the curve where 270 joins 70…. Pulling over was NOT an option. So I went
into full anxiety mode. I couldn’t change a tire. I have SEEN tires been
changed. I hadn’t done one in like 70000 years…. And this was a new car with
those weird jacks... I could not do this. I must have said “are you serious” to
clay a billion times… (My poor husband when I go into anxiety mode I go full
throttle.) I was able to slowly reach the McDonalds off of Earth City
Expressway and pull over.
Clay tells me there are instructions in the car booklet….
After searching the midget glossary I found where the tire information was… And
it’s not itemized… Cause that would have been helpful… So I had to search the
entire tire section found a bunch of information that no one cares about before
I found the direction for finding the tire etc. So I hung up with clay and in
the rain (the first rain in months!!!) get the donut out and the weird little
jack. I figured out how to separate the parts of the jack and started trying to
loosen the bolts…. Yeah wasn’t happening…..
Then 2 guys to awesome people I have never met.. Walk over
to me and ask if I needed help… Uh YEAH.
These guys did everything for me... And explained all the donut do’s and don’ts.
I thanked them like a billion times they then told me that they just happened
to be waiting for their boss... He should be there anytime and would be leaving
soon……
So doing the math in my head if I would have left when I
should have…. I would have been there for how long freaking out while trying to
change the evil tire. But as I always tell people. Everything happens for a
reason. There was a reason we left late, there was a reason we go all the way
to almost 70 before the tire blew and I was able to get to Earth City
Expressway, there is a reason why these 2 random total strangers decided to
help a total stranger….
God only gives you what you can handle and he has a plan..
This is one of those few times... I was immediately able to see why things
happened the way they did. I feel extremely blessed today!!!!!
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| The busted tire... EEK |
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| The donut.. Looks like it belongs on a mini bike.. Not an HHR.lol |
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| Fuzzy picture of the awesome guys who changed the tire for me :) |
