The past week has been very rough for me emotionally, I guess. I am doing an internship at a homeless shelter for a class. It's really important to me. They were having an event that I was very much looking forward to going and supporting, and didn't get to go due to my car dying on me. I'm emotionally vested in this internship site and I was really looking forward to helping the community. Also, it's not optional, I need this class to graduate. Missing last week puts me behind on my internship which sucks as my time is already pretty limited.
I go to do my homework for one of my classes and the "short essay" that is on the syllabus is actually a 5 page paper with no less than 3 scholarly resources and I really should have planned better for that... I got it done, but it was almost three days of stress that could have been avoided if I planned better.
My car is still not fixed, but I hope that tomorrow it will be.
Anyway, I'm driving my husband's big 4WD truck today while he's at work. It's not my nice little SUV, but I'm grateful to have wheels.
I had my 4 year old with me this morning, ready to go to town. We live way out in the middle of nowhere so we drive 30 minutes to get to civilization. I prepay the gas and when I go to put the gas in it, there is no gas cap, no place to put gas in.. nothing, just an empty HOLE! I look down in there and it's really just gone.
I call my husband and he says that has happened before and to reach under the truck and just push it back up. Uh... Yeah, I don't even see anything to push, so I go back in the gas station and I tell the owner what happened only hoping to get my money back, but she says "My mechanic is here, let me have him see if he can fix it." So, a nice older man comes out and tries for a while but he can't get it either. He says to pull around to his shop in the back where he can get under it.
He jacks up our big beast of a truck and when he gets it all bolted back where it should be, they don't even charge me a dime! It took him at least 45 minutes to fix it! I was just floored. I really couldn't believe it.
I have just been so down lately and they were so nice and really did not have to help me at all, but I'm so grateful that they did! It definitely made my day.
My husband was injured in Iraq on his last deployment and his back and knees are shot. He really can't crawl on the ground and lay under the truck like that which is probably why he hasn't fixed it already. So, this man fixed something that we really could not do very easily alone. I'm going to have to think of something nice to do for them.
Nice People. :)
