Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:29:23 -0700
Reply-To: Annie <lsandrsn@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Annie <lsandrsn@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Vanagonuts are the Best!
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I agree with Peter - you are a great storyteller, Pat!
Be blessed,
~Annie Anderson
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski <
pnoceanwesty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow! You are a great storyteller. Felt like I was there!
>
> Nice to know good things happen ocassionally.
>
> On 6/29/10, Pat Sloan <pmsloan@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > To truly appreciate, you all need to know that I'm a 65-yr-old woman with
> a
> > serious 'Auto Mechanics for Women' course (circa 1975) under my belt.
> >
> > So I'm out in Mission, about 50 miles from home in Vancouver with
> 'Otter',
> > my 1982 Westy van with an 87 Jetta engine. 'Bob the Diligent' (my cheap
> and
> > wonderfully patient mechanic) has just spent several days correcting
> > massively bad wiring which has been draining the battery and creating
> major
> > starting problems. Now I'm at the gas station just before the freeway,
> > filling up before I drive home. But when I start her up again she
> doesn't.
> > Nothing. No sound to give me a clue. I call Bob, but he's gone home for
> the
> > day. Can't call BCAA because I've used up all my calls for the year (see
> > draining battery, above).
> >
> > Fret and pace briefly. Then decide to call BCAA anyway. They'll charge
> me,
> > but at least I know they're reputable. Now I can't read the emergency #
> on
> > the card. Don't have my reading glasses with me. Aargh!!
> >
> > At the pumps behind me a huge black pickup has just pulled up. The kind I
> > need a ladder to climb into. Forty-something guy gets out to pump gas and
> I
> > ask if he can read the phone # off my card so I can call BCAA. This is
> > probably the 1st moment that he's registered my existence, and when he
> lifts
> > his eyes from my card to check what I'm driving, he lights up like the
> dawn
> > coming over the mountains!
> >
> > "Hey, I used to drive all over the country in one of those!"
> >
> > "What year? Yeah, mine was an '82, too!"
> >
> > "Can I have a look at the Jetta engine? Wow! Cool! Jeez, I miss mine."
> >
> > "Hey, let me have a look back by the starter and see what's happening."
> >
> > I find a pair of pyjamas he can wrap around his arm, (engine is hot!) and
> he
> > kind of disappears into the engine compartment like the vet in 'All
> > Creatures Great and Small' helping out a cow who's having some problems
> > delivering her calf.
> >
> > I strategically fall back to the passenger side of the Darth Vader pickup
> to
> > make nice with the very young, very made-up blonde passenger who is
> rolling
> > her eyes at this insanity. Not sure if she's a girlfriend or a daughter -
> > could be either. But in any case, clearly it's majorly to my advantage to
> > keep her as happy as possible.
> >
> > It only takes a minute or 2. He finds the wire he clearly knows about and
> is
> > looking for. Seems it was connected but not crimped and has fallen off.
> So
> > he's pushed it back on. Enough for me to drive carefully back to Bob's
> > garage, where I can leave it until Monday so he can fix. Refuses any
> > payment. Leaves with a smile and a wave and my hearty thanks!
> >
> > Wow! Vanagonuts . . .
> >
> > They're everywhere;
> >
> > they're obsessed
> >
> > and they are very, very kind.
> >
> > Pat in Vancouver - '82 Vanjetta - 'Otter'
> >
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> Pete
> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
> '87 Westy "JoesVan"
> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
>
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