Well, another fail when it comes to living in the moment. This one was scary. I was in a Panda restraurant parking lot. Phone rings it's my wife. I say some words and drive off, right over a curb that I parked next to. The curb is 6 inches high. The car bottoms out a top the curb. So this curb surrounds a pit about 3 ft deep with some sorry looking plants at the bottom. There are 3 pits in this parking lot. Why. I have no idea. There is a mixture of light gray rocks from two hand held size down to 2 inches in diameter. My car is front wheel drive. And it's the front right tire that turns while in gear. Under that front wheel tire is a foot of air. No traction. Totally stuck. I'm thinking my transmission is finished. See a big plumbing truck nearby ask them if they got a chain or rope. Nope. Call the service station, but they don't have a wrecker. He gives me the service they use. Call him & it's 145 to come get me. I say how about 45. Nope. Ok, I did what I could do now it's up to you DS, need some help here. Text my wife's son. He comes out. We hook up binding straps to each car's hitch points. I say it's going to break. He moved me a foot then strap broke. A guy comes over and offers to help. I say thanks. So we try to build up the depression with rocks. Two other Spanish guys come over. We build a small rock road for the tire. The tire keeps spinning, no good. We tried differing ways but tire kept spinning. I dug out the spare donut which is a small tire. We jam it under the front tire. Still spins. After 20 minutes of that. I have my step son go to auto parts store yo get me a tow rope. I go to trunk and get the fabric rug that covers floor in trunk and shove it between the tire and the donut. I press down on fender with the other guy and keep the tire engaged with the fabric. Success.
The car is ok. My first thought when it happened, was game over. A negative thought. My mind went right to that. But then I regrouped and started to think of ways to fix this. When my ways failed I called on DS. 5 min later the first guy showed up. Then the other 2 guys. Thank-you guys and DS! I always believe you help out people stranded on the road. So I got caught between a curb and a hard place. And through DS I got from under it. The whole process took a little over an hour. So it didn't cost me this time to remedy my problem.
It's been a tough past 2 years. Constant problems, seems like 1 right after the other. It gets exhausting, but what are you going to do. Can't quit. I think on the people of Eastern Ukraine and I say to myself, I can deal with my troubles.
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