Just Sitting By the Side of the Road...

I called Trevor a couple days ago to see how his day was going…and he said “I’m just sitting here by the side of the road…”

This was the story…

Trevor and Steven had just picked up a vehicle from another shop where they were getting the alternator repaired. From there they were going to use it to deliver a different vehicle to the welding shop. On the way they started smelling a burning belt, so at the next intersection they turned onto a smaller side road to check out what was happening because they saw smoke coming out of the hood.

That’s when they realized that the alternator that had just been repaired at the other shop had seized up. So…Trevor left Steven with the cell phone to call a tow truck, while he went on to deliver the other vehicle to the welding shop.

Trevor then got a ride back with the owner of the welding shop to where the vehicle was broken down to wait with Steven for the tow truck. They sat under a tree. Steven grabbed a big rock that he had found and dragged it under a tree to sit in the shade. Trevor cleared the thorns to make a spot to sit on the ground.
As they were sitting there, Trevor was thinking “we often see people sitting beside the road, in the shade...and we wonder what they’re doing and why they’re just sitting there” and that was them this time…just sitting there...people looking at them as they drove by…matatu drivers wondering if they needed a ride somewhere. As they were waiting, they started getting less and less shade as the sun was moving…and they started getting warmer and warmer, sitting there in their coveralls.

They must have called the towing company 6 times and every time they said they were only a few minutes away…two and a half hours from when they first called was when the tow truck actually showed up!!! *sigh*…
So basically what was supposed to take a half hour to pick up the one vehicle and bring the other vehicle to the welding shop ended up taking at least half the day instead. Such is many a day in the life of Trevor the Mechanic… :o)

(by the way…he is going to be the most patient person EVER when our year here is over…!!) {grin}