Sometimes the only satisfaction is that you tried
JULY/21/2010
Long story short….Put a new Battery in the Supermobile & took it out across the Bayside Bridge for a run, came across this lady & her Daughter & like 4 kids in a Minivan at the side of the bridge that had a chunk of the belt of one of their tires come loose & tear the faring over the wheel well lose.Nobody had stopped to try & help them so the first thing I wanted to do was break out my roadside asistance kit & see if I could re-attach the fairing.
No go, The heat down here turnned my duct tape to soup.
By then a cop had pulled up behind my car which was a good thing because while I’m down on the ground working speeding cars are passing my head like two feet away and the cop hands me his multi tool & I try to screw the fairing back into place.
No go, the screws are all jammed up or rusted.
So I follow the family at like 20 mph with my hazzards on off the bridge & into a parking lot so I can use my floor jack to take off the bad tire & put on their spare.
No go, The frame of the vehicle is REALLY high up in the body (One of those wierd looking astrovans from the 1990’s), My jack doesn’t reach that high. (and I’ve got a floor jack!)
So finally the husband shows up with a big Truck jack to lift the van & change the tire & all I can do is look at the older lady & say “Sorry ma’am, everything I tried just wasn’t much help to you.”
And she said back “You know what? Thank you any way. You we’re the only person to stop & try, and thank you for your kindness anyway.”
Some days that’s the only satisfaction you’re going to get. But it’s enough.
No go, The heat down here turnned my duct tape to soup.
By then a cop had pulled up behind my car which was a good thing because while I’m down on the ground working speeding cars are passing my head like two feet away and the cop hands me his multi tool & I try to screw the fairing back into place.
No go, the screws are all jammed up or rusted.
So I follow the family at like 20 mph with my hazzards on off the bridge & into a parking lot so I can use my floor jack to take off the bad tire & put on their spare.
No go, The frame of the vehicle is REALLY high up in the body (One of those wierd looking astrovans from the 1990’s), My jack doesn’t reach that high. (and I’ve got a floor jack!)
So finally the husband shows up with a big Truck jack to lift the van & change the tire & all I can do is look at the older lady & say “Sorry ma’am, everything I tried just wasn’t much help to you.”
And she said back “You know what? Thank you any way. You we’re the only person to stop & try, and thank you for your kindness anyway.”
Some days that’s the only satisfaction you’re going to get. But it’s enough.