Aug 05, 2005 20:05
Dear Journal,
HEY HEY HEY now whats going on? im doing just fine....nothing too crazy happened to me today but i want to talk more about what happened to me on August 3, 2005. Work was a normal long boring day on this wednesday.....So nothing special there. However its what happened to me AFTER work, that will forever change my life. We got out of work early at like 3 so i quickly ran home to take a shower and get ready for to go to ann arbor to go pick up a friend with my homie willie. He comes by and picks me up around like 4:50pm and just as we were getting ready to leave i decided i wanted to take my car because his tape cassette didnt work an di wanted him to hear some songs on my ipod...so we switch cars and were on our way..........Time flys......we are about a mile away from the ann arbor exit when i started smelling smoke....I look down at the floor of my car and the ground has smoke coming out of it!!!! i start freaking out and i quickly pull over and as soon as i turn off the car this car from starts smoking badly....like someone was smoking chronic in my car or something.... About five minutes later a young man in about his early 30s comes up to us and he takes a look under my hood and says i probably had a whole somewhere in my radiator. He said the best thing we could do was buy some water and antifreeze and try to get some in the car....Talk abotu easier said then DONE...we were in the middle of NOWHERE....So after that the guys leaves and we decide to just suck it up and walk till we find something........Keep in mind its HOTT as HECK out there like maybe mid 90 and getting hotter.....So a mile in a half later we finally find a gas station.....We buy like 5 or 6 large waters and some anti-freeze and walk another mile and a half back to the car......When we got there another older gentelman pulled up and helped us out again....He was about in his 70s maybe older and he was just soooo nice and patient with us as we had no idea what we were doing......he showed us how to open the radiator so we could pour water and junk in there....and he looked at everythign to see if he could find the hole but only with no luck.....So we decide to start the car up and try to get on the road.....only ANOTHER problem occurs...............THE FREAKING BATTERY WAS DEAD!!!!!! i left nothing on at all and somehow the batter died........So lucky for us we had jumper cables and after about 40 minutes or more of trying to get a spark from my batter to his..we finally go the car to start.........Now keep in mind we were going to pick up a friend so we could take him to battle creek too...We call the other buddy and told him we couldnt make it becuz of car trouble and hes like "well thats ok i found another ride with my ROOMATE" and im just in such shock i dont kno wwhat to say....Why didnt this guy ask his roomate for a rid ein the first place? Why was he in such need to get to battle creek? YOU KNOW WHY? becuz he wanted to go out of town on vacation with this GIRLS FAMILY!??!?!?! crazy huh? i was very upset but theres was nothing i could do about it at the moment.....we had to get home! So were getting ready to turn back around so we could head towards lansing and this darn car started smoking AGAIN! so i quickly pull off to a near by exut and we end up going to a lil corner store...Loaded up on water and anitfreeze again and put it in our car....We figuered that we were gonna have to keep doing this every 20 minutes or so until we got home....get to a station or store, put it in the radiator and then drive abour 20mph till we get home.......Well it was a very saddening and humbling experience to have to continue doing this all day but we had to do wha we had to do....but thats not all folks! Were heading back to lansing and were about a good 45 minutes away and the car started smoking really really bad and we were on the far LEFT side of the road and we had to get the the far right to stop.....the car just turned off and were drifting on OUR OWN! SOMEHOW WE GOT OVER and just called it qquits......i called my parents to come get us and we sat and waited for them....ten minutes after i make this call a car pulls up out of no where and this ragady black looking cadi.....THIS man comes out of the car...dirty looking and trashy....with somthing in his PANTS! im talking like he look like he had freaking pool balls or something in his jeans! what ever the heck it was it was swollen and was about to bust in those tight jeans....anyway he turned out to be a "mobile mechanic"....someone that drives up and down the high ways and sees cars that are broken down and helps people in need......as crazy and scary as he looked...he knew what the heck he was talking about......He found the hole in my radiator hose.....went to the store and bought us a new one, fix the radiator...told me what was wrong with my car and gave me some valuable advice...By the time my parents got there everything was fixed and taken care of.....We finally get back home around 11:30pm! So lets recap folks....well over a hundred dollars spent, 6 hours, for a 45 minute trip to pick up someone, who WANTED TO GO SEE A GIRL.......YEah pretty nuts...so what did i learn....a lot! One, guys will do ANYTHING and i mean anythign for a girl...two, always check your antifreeze level and three, never underestimate the power of kindness...we got a lot of help and the longest we had to wait for someone to pull up and ask us if we needed help was like 15 minutes tops. So im very thankful for everyones help and if i ever run into these people again one day i hope theres something i can do for them! Well im all done journal...thanx again!
-Forever Marcus-
life lessons come hard to some...