We made it home, but the car didn't !

[Ms Grumpy]

So we had a wonderful weekend at the NOCC show. To my surprise, my car won an award for being one of the Top 40 cars, Sweet !

It was too good to be true.......
About 10am Sunday morning we are all packed up and heading out. This time David is in the lead. As we pull out of the Holiday Inn parking lot I notice that the car is having a hard time shifting. By this time we are already on the entrance ramp to I-71. I grab the walkie-talkie and tell David that we have a problem. To late we are on the e-way. We decide that we need to try to limp it to the next exit, but after going a little way we realize that the exit is 2 miles away. I am only able to get the car up to 20 mph. I can't get it to go into any of the low gears, only park, reverse, neutral and drive. Of course David is mad, why didn't I notice anything wrong earlier, he asked me. What's done is done. We have to figure out how to get the car off the e-way.

Now let me back up to the night before and what happened. We had walked outside and happened to see flash and the Mrs. We walked up to them and Joan told me that flash had just written us a note to say good-bye, just in case we didn't see them in the morning. Well she gave me that note, which happened to be on the back of one of flash's business cards that had his cell phone number on it.

Fast forward to sitting on the side of the e-way. Who are we going to call, we have no idea where anything is. And David is asking me...what are you going to do now ? I remembered that I had flash's card and that he knows everyone ! So I call flash and he and Joan were able to get me the president of the NOCC club and other members numbers. So I start at the top and call the president and he told me that he would make some calls. He certainly did...I had Joe, the VP of NOCC, on the e-way with us within 15 minutes.

Joe was wonderful ! He still had his truck, trailer and car back at the hotel with his wife. And he had the keys to all of them. So I took Joe's car back to the hotel and got his wife and daughter who took me home with them and I waited for the car. Joe made arrangements and got us a flatbed truck, and had the car towed back to his house where it would be safe. He offered to put it up on his lift to take a look at it and see if it could be fixed. We opted not to do this because we think that it is something internal. By this time it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, David, Joe and the kids have been out in the rain since 10am and we are all really tired.

So we got home a little after 7pm tonight. But the car is safe at Joe's house. I wish that I could convey to him how thankful I am that he was there for us today. He definately mad a tough day a lot easier.

And here is the kicker. Joe has even offered to trailer the car back for us, the only thing he asked is that we cover the gas. What an amazing person !!