November 14, 2008
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It started off like any normal day does…….
no, wait I did over sleep until 7:00. So Matthew and I didn’t make it to Mass this morning. Maybe that is why the day went as it did. Who knows? Anyway it was all downhill from there. We had our showers and did chores and had breakfast then got to work on projects that we had started this week. Matthew is making a Christmas present and I had some buttonholes to make. That was my first mistake. The sewing machine was working fine but the cuffs were too thick and the buttonholes just weren’t going right and I had to tear them out twice so I threw that aside and decided to cut out another project that I wanted to start.
Then we got into the car to go out to lunch. Last weekend I had made a cake for a friend’s birthday. She loved the cake and everyone who works at her restaurant loved it too. But the dishwasher broke the cake stand when he went to wash it. So she offered Matthew and I a free lunch on her to replace the cake stand. We had such a good time that it left not much time to drive to the next town to make it to our Holy Hour. I do not like rushing when it comes to getting anywhere.
Then Matthew wanted to go to the fabric store and we had to wait in a very long line while we were there and they are going out of business which I find irritating to say the least. So I was late starting out to get Mary-Kate.
The final insult came on the way home from picking up Mary-Kate. When we were 10miles from home the temp light came on in the car and chimes started to go off and the temp guage went sky high. I pulled over immediately but I knew what that all meant. It wasn’t good. I popped the hood and there was coolant all over the place and it was spraying out from under the car too. I called my oldest son and told him what was going on. (the reason I didn’t call my husband first is because Ian works closer to where I was broken down and he is my mechanic) Then I called AAA to get a tow truck on the way. Ian left work to come and pick up MK and Matthew while I stayed with the car until the tow truck came.
I observed something interesting while I was waiting. Literally dozens of large trucks passed me in the hour and fifteen minutes that I sat there and waited and exactly three people stopped to ask if there was anything that they could do. Although it was a back country road that I was stopped along there are three large farms on that road and a major gravel bed and a fuel oil business. They have trucks going in and out of there all the time. The guys in the trucks passed and waved but only three stopped to offer help. I found it very interesting. Since it was a relatively warm day, 64 degrees, and sunny and my children are grown up now, it didn’t bother me as it used to in the past. But still I find it interesting.
So, now my poor Dodge is parked outside our shop with the dash taken apart and the diagnosis is a bad heater coil. Not good. I guess that I don’t need to go to morning mass for awhile. Either that or I have to get up early and take Doug to work and then put up with his very stinky car all day long. (it smells like a free-stall). I think I will offer up not being able to go to Mass.
Doesn’t shee look sad? No nasty comments about Dodges from all of you Ford lovers out there. We have settled that around here. Only Dodges are allowed and an occasional Chevy, if it can behave itself. Even my Ford loving son has a Dodge. The son who actually has a Ford truck is flying in when he comes home and he will drive my Dodge. This is Dodge country.
Comments (6)
I’m so sorry your day didn’t turn out how you had wished it. There were two things you said though that made me go, wow. First, Matthew, a teenage boy, wanted to go to the fabric store. I know of a good Catholic man who would rather be punched in the face than go fabric shopping. But he would go because he knew it made his girlfriend, now wife, happy. Second, Matthew, a teenage boy, goes to Holy Hour with his mother. It sounds like you’ve raised a fine son there.
@whteroses - Now I’ll really wow you about Matthew, when I have to go to a dr appointment or a procedure in the morning, he will call a friend who lives around the corner and ask her to pick him up on her way to daily mass. He goes to Holy Hour with me three days a week. I pray to God daily that he has a vocation to the priesthood and for the grace to bear the disappointment if he does not. My other boys are the same way. They all can sew and sew well. They would all go to the fabric store and make things for each other for gifts and they all were and are eager to go to mass and holy hour. My daughter as well.
Dodge cars, ford cars, chevy cars, all made in taiwan. Someday mitsubishi will be outsourcing all their grunt work to America, just to even things out.
On the bright side, you could have broken down out at MK’s school. That would have been fun. The buffalo did that in Afghanistan once, sprayed antifreeze everywhere and died. It was right up, almost at the top of the MK pass. Good times.
@P_Obrien - I am thankful that I had no little people like in the past. That the sun was shining. That is was relatively warm and that I had super Ian to come and pick up MK and Matthew and then work on my car. What more can a woman want?
It could be that the three that stopped….if they were of the same company…radioed the others that things were okay. If the ones that passed you by were not locals they might have been leary of stopping. So much goes on on roads now a days that people worry about stopping. Wil does stop if it is a woman with kids or old people. Of course I have to laugh at myself when I say something about some old man driving this way or that….Wil is going to be 69 this month. Does he qualify? lol
Dodge rules (I only had to get a Ford because Dodge gave up on the Ram van and went to something really ugly and top heavy).