I was on the way to work yesterday morning when my car died.\u00a0 Fortunately, it died just as I was approaching an exit so I managed to steer it off onto the ramp.<\/p>\n
The ramp was the exit for Grand Ledge which is about 15 miles west of down town Lansing.\u00a0 We almost made it to work but not quite.<\/p>\n
I called for a tow truck from Lowell to come and pick up the car.\u00a0 My intent was to go back to Lowell and then come up with an alternate means of getting to work.<\/p>\n
The tow truck driver said that he would be there in an hour.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 But what do we do for an hour?<\/p>\n
Since there were two gas stations right next to the expressway, I suggested to my car pooler that we go up to the gas stations and get a cup of coffee.\u00a0 After all, we are going to be there for a hour.\u00a0 My car pooler liked the idea but took it one step further.\u00a0 He was going to try to find a ride into Lansing.<\/p>\n
While I admired his ambition, I pointed out that he would not have any way of getting back home.\u00a0 That\u00a0 fact didn’t seem to phase him in the least.\u00a0 Of course, he was heavily medicated for back pain so he doesn’t always think clearly.<\/p>\n
When we got to the gas station, he started approaching people at the pumps to see if he could get a ride into Lansing.\u00a0 Between the nature of the request and the fact that he was in a stupor\u00a0 from his medications, he was really freaking people out at the gas station.\u00a0 I, in turn, when inside the station and got a cup of coffee, though I wondered how long it would be before some called the cops.<\/p>\n
Eventually, my car pooler realized the futility of his efforts and gave up.\u00a0 After about 20 minutes and one cup of coffee, we walked back to the car and waited for the tow truck.\u00a0 By that time, we had devised a plan where we would return to the car pool lot and pick up my car poolers car.\u00a0 We would then drive back to Lansing and go to work.<\/p>\n
When the tow truck arrived,\u00a0 the driver loaded up the car and then we all climbed into the front seat.\u00a0 It was a little crowded but we managed.\u00a0 He dropped us off at the car pool lot and we climbed into my car poolers car and headed back to Lansing.\u00a0 We were about 2 hours late but at least we made it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was on the way to work yesterday morning when my car died.\u00a0 Fortunately, it died just as I was approaching an exit so I managed to steer it off onto the ramp. The ramp was the exit for Grand … Continue reading