You Meet The Nicest People (Part 2)

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Jun 1, 2001

We wouldn't have to spend the night, broken down, here on the roadside would we? It was beginning to look like that might be a real possibility when suddenly my wife exclaimed "Barry! There's a camper parked in front us." Just at that time a voice at the door said "hey? Are you folks OK? "We just passed by, saw you stopped here and came back to see if you were OK? " Wow these were the best words that I had heard all day. Exchanging stories we found that Bob and Joann had also been out for a test drive in their truck with a slide camper, as practice for a planned trip to Alaska next spring.

Bob found that his cell phone, different company than mine, also had no signal and graciously offered stop at a friend's house a few miles down the road and call my son for me. Being ever so thankful to them Bob and Joann left on their mission and again we settled in to wait for the rescue. Alas shortly Bob and Joann were again parked in front of our motorhome. "What happened?" I asked. "Your son is not home and we didn't want to leave you stranded here so we came back." Bob replied " Do you have towing by any chance?" "At least maybe you can have them tow you to a repair shop where you can get your motor home fixed tomorrow." "You know Bob". I said "This is going to sound really dumb, but I do have emergency road care service." "I have had it for almost two years and have never used it I forgot all about it until you just now mentioned it." We left our wives in our motorhome while Bob and I drove to his friend's house where hopefully I could contact my road care service and get us towed to a garage and by then maybe my son would be available to take us home.

I made contact with the road service and was told that a tow truck would be there in approximately 45 minutes. Another call to my son... still not home, we returned to our wives so deep in conversation that they hardly missed us. Time now seemed to drag as we waited 10...20...30 minutes how long would it be 40...41...42 ...whoa...there he is I'll be damned he's early and what a sight for sore eyes.

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