Yesterday was a complete success! The daughter came through the little ordeal with flying colors and we got to take two of our grandchildren to lunch. One is nine and the other is fourteen but it was the first time we've had them in our car without one of their parents.
On the way to Columbia yesterday morning I noticed a nice looking, newer Ford Explorer sitting on the shoulder with, for sale and a phone number, written in large letters across the back and rear road side window. We passed there around 9:00 am. Around 4:20 pm as we drove through the same area I again noticed the vehicle but coming at it head on I thought I saw someone sitting in the front seat. Tho it was pretty warm the drivers side window was down only a crack. Someone sitting in the car for over seven hours with the window mostly shut sure didn't add up to a very happy thought in our minds. We bit our lips and decided to do what we thought would be the proper thing and turned around to check it out.
Sure enough there was a lady sitting in the slightly reclined drivers seat, head laid back and eyes closed. As I walked up to the window I noticed she was perspiring pretty good. As she raised her head to look at me, fearfully I asked if she was okay. She said, "well, yes and no." There I stood, not fit to handle any kind of emergency and mentally cursing myself for being too cheap to have a cell phone. I relaxed as I heard her story.
The car belonged to her daughter who had called the night before reporting the car was heating up. She had her daughter park it on the shoulder and then drove there and picked her up leaving the car for later. Later was yesterday. After teaching her bible school classes at the Concord Baptist Church, she and her husband stopped by for the car. They filled the thing with water then he left. She pulled out on the highway and the car immediately heated up again so she had pulled back off on the shoulder. She had walked across the road to a house and had called her husband on his cell phone to come back and help. He hadn't made it back yet because he was arranging for a tow truck. She had only been sitting there for about an hour.
I mentioned the window being mostly up and the heat in the car and she told me in this day and age you never know what might walk up to your window. She did thank me very much for stopping, saying also, that in this day and age very few people would have stopped. She said we had been the only ones.
Thinking back, I know why very few people and only the most stupid might stop. When we drove up and verified that a person was in the car I could have died right there! I think my heart was in the right place but when I saw her laying back, eyes closed and perspiring it almost stopped! What in the world was I thinking we might do had there been a real emergency? Only thing I can think we might have done would have been to drive like a maniac to the first phone and call 911. Being a couple of the most stupid we will probably stop the next time too.
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." But, too much wonder can sure make you way too smart for your own good.
So that was my story for the day. We hope all your stories for this day will all be wonderful!
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