Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Do angels drive SUV's ?

We drove over to Spokane on Friday last week and spent the weekend with Cathy, Asia and the kids. It was so fun to watch Ethan in his wrestling match. He did such a great job. He is quite the go getter ! Came away with a silver medal. GO, ETHAN ! Gold next time ?
We headed home Monday am early as I had a class at 6:30 I wanted to be back for. No problem - we do that often always arriving on time.
BUT - heading down the freeway about 70 miles or so we began to hear a loud roar. We both looked front and back for the truck we expected to see - but lo and behold - NO truck.
What is that noise !! I looked up as it sounded like a huge airplane going overhead.
No airplane ! Everything seemed fine except for this loud roaring sound.
Bob pulled over, hopped out to check things and found our right front tire flatter than a pancake.
No indication of a flat = no flop, flop of rubber you would expect - no pulling of the car to the right which could have been serious doing 70 down the freeway. Just the loud roar !
So the trunk was unloaded - jack and tools brought out and Bob began to undo the lug bolts.
The cars and trucks were zipping by, of course, everyone hurrying as the world does now a days.
Then suddenly this big black SUV lurked on the horizon and the next thing we knew he pulled over ahead of our car - the door opened and this big strong young man jumped out heading toward us saying "Everything under control or could you use some help ?" Bob said, "No, I think we are ok." "Well" he continued " Why don't you go get your spare and I'll loosen those for you."
Upon the arrival of the tire, he promptly took it, plopped it on the wheel, tightened everything up, shook hands and was off after letting me give him a hug. All in about 15 minutes.
"Angels do appear out of no where !"

Anway we proceeded on our little donut tire (which by the way had about 20 pounds of air left in it ) When did you last check the air in your spare ?? Limped to the next service station, got some air - then proceeded to good old Les Schwab in the Dalles and ended up buying two new front tires. They were both worn on the inside due to being out of alignment he said.
I arrived about 15 minutes late for my class and they were waiting for me so it all worked out great. We do have a great God. He really does care about every little detail of our lives and is always there when we need him !

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what a great story! Thanks for sharing

Steve said...

Great story! Glad you are home safe!

Cathy said...

I've had such a busy week - this is the first time I've had a chance to read blogs... sorry you had such a crazy drive home, but glad you made it safely.

Thanks for coming... we're off to the last wrestling meet this morning...

Love you!