Blow Out

On Sunday mornings we usually take a couple of vehicles to church as some of us go early or stay longer then others. Vern and three of the kids were driving home from church yesterday when they all of a sudden felt a crazy pull on the one side of the car. It didn’t take long for Vern to realize that he had a flat tire. He pulled off the road which just happened to be at the Kingdom Hall. Vern tried with no success to get the spare tire from under the van. There was no way that thing was going to come down so he went inside to see if he could use a phone but their service was still going on. Therefore Ruth and Vern went knocking on doors of neighbors trying to see if they could use a phone. They had no luck there and so they headed back to Kingdom Hall. By that time, their service was over and someone helped Vern make some phone calls. He tried to get a hold of me as I was still at church but he had no luck with that. Then he tried to get a hold of his brother but no answer there. Then he called Caleb, and thankfully he was home. Caleb drove out to pick up the family. Then Vern and Caleb picked up an all season tire that was in storage and headed back to the van to change the tire. So it was an eventful morning. Ruth ended up being late for work and she said it took at least 45 minutes to get the chill out of her bones. It just happened to be a VERY cold day yesterday. Vern went to the tire shop and was able to pick up the very last snow tire that they had in stock. So we are up and running again and the family is hoping we don’t get any more flat tires in the dead of winter again.