Showing posts with label leave on the side of the road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leave on the side of the road. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

James left for his high council meeting this morning at 5:15 in the middle of a blizzard.  First I got a call asking me where we are suppose to be in the scriptures.  James wanted to listen to his scriptures on the way to his meeting.  At 5:30 I got another call asking me to come and get him because he had run his truck off the road and couldn't get out.  He missed the turn just this side of the school yard and ran of the embankment and then in to a fence.  Oh yes, he also hit a sign.  Thank goodness he didn't get hurt, except for his pride.
We went home and then James took me back to the church for ward council. 
Brother MacArthur from the high council was the main speaker in our sacrament meeting.  He is the CEO at the Summit Healthcare Center better known as the Show Low Hospital.  Natalie gave the lesson in young women's on the premortal life.  James had six people at church volunteer to help pull his truck out.  He and Sean Hunsaker arranged to meet after church to do the job.  On our way home from church we noticed that the truck was gone.  James was a little upset but I tried to calm him down and told him not to get upset until we had more information.  Alicia Hunsaker called and said she noticed it was gone so she had called the sheriff's department.  A deputy McCall found the truck and had it towed to Springerville.  When James spoke with him he was very rude.  He said he towed the truck because there was damage to personal property (the fence), and he (James), hadn't reported it. 
We located the towing company and made a trip to Springerville in a blizzard.  As James was driving the truck home and I was driving behind him, in the blizzard, I noticed the truck was smoking very badly.  I tried calling him but he didn't answer.  So I began honking my horn and he finally pulled over.  He grabbed some stuff out of the truck and we left it by the side of the road.
 It was hard for James to desert his truck.
Well it cost us $225 in towing fees and then the gas to go to Springerville to get a truck that is not drivable.  I think I could say that this was not James's best day.
We went home and had some dinner and then watched a light-hearted Hallmark movie called Elevator Girl.  It was a good way to end a sad day.