Do random thoughts or random memories just pop in your mind? Sometimes for me they do and this popped up when I was sweeping up a mess today.
In Winter 1989 I drove with Lisa, and the kids (Jessica and Matt) to Buffalo for Pam's family party. It was winter -so I assume we were celebrating January birthdays and last I counted there were a zillion birthdays in January in our family.
On the way home,I remember paying the toll with counted change and thinking "Wow I only have a quarter." I had forgotten my wallet..duh. I remember looking back at Jessica and pulling forward alittle. I remember the dress she was wearing and her cute young face. Then the car wouldn't go.
There we were just outside of Rochester, just off the Thru way, with a quarter, in January, snow and two babies. Jessica was probably about 1ish and Matt was LITTLE. Luckily, we had gas so Lisa could keep the car warm. Oh wait the car couldn't start so we were cold. That was before a gallon of gas cost more than a house payment
I remember going over to a pay phones(remember life without a cell-yuck let's not go back) calling Scott and quickly telling him where I was and that my car was broken. I had to talk fast, because the quarter wasn't long conversation call. We were just dating then...about a year by then.
My Mom was sick with what we thought was a flu.
Scott arrived and the hood went up. This was tried and that was tried...Lisa gave Jessica her coat as blanket and ALF(or another stuff animal -in my mind it was ALF) kept Matt warm. Scott's hands were very cold because he couldn't work and wear his gloves.
After a short while, Scott rummaged around my car and got a plastic bag, a paper clip,and two diapers.
I don't know what he did, but he fixed my car so that we could get home and I could get to a car shop the next day.
I dropped off the car and went to college the next day. I was in the Interpreting Training Program at NTID then.I had a cute haircut then, but I didn't understand my bangs. Anyways....I digress...
While in a class my Mom's friend walked in. Strange I thought, but her husband taught on campus. June Siebach came right in and whispered some thing to the teacher and motioned to me to follow.
My Mom didn't have the flu, she had had a heart attack.
She would later have 4 more that week. Little ones the doctors called "aftershocks."
After calling the car place, June dropped me off there and she went ahead to the hospital. The guys at the car place were so amazed at how my car was fixed by a Wegmans plastic bag and a paper clip (diapers taped everything into place)that they didn't charge me.
They told me to have Scott call them for a job....and asked me for my phone number.
Random.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Wierd that I remember this- Plastic bag
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I never heard that story.
What an interesting story, did Scott take the job? hehe.
Just a random memory.. Talking about Moms, snow, cold, June Siebach, and fixing cars with diapers... Mom and June took a trip to Buffalo in a VW Bug during a snowstorm, and the windshield wipers broke. They "fixed" them with diapers on each side and took turns pulling them each way while Mom drove the bug back..
Don't wonder where Scott got it from!
:-)
BTW, sunny and 70 degrees here in Barcelona today! :-P
I don't miss Rottenchester at all
Wasn't there a hair dryer involved in the bug or the VW Thing that was in place of a rear defroster? I seem to remember going to Primary in the Bug or VW Thing and having to hold my feet up when we went under the bridge by the airport. Water and a hair dryer in the back window?????
The VW Thing was probably my favourite* car that the family had! Typical Rochesterian salty slush had bored rather large holes on the underside resulting in exciting drives! One rainy Sunday morning on the way to church, the underpass at Brooks Avenue was flooded. Dad didn't want to go around so he dashed right into the water. I don't know what he was thinking, perhaps that it would float through? The deep pool engulfed that little car and water shot up through the holes to the roof! That little German engineered beauty stalled right smack dab in the middle of the small "pond". I was pretty small so I didn't have to get out and push, but I remember Dad and Victor taking their Sunday shoes off to get out and rescue the Swiss Family Williams. After we were out of the water, that scared VW took a long "pee"! ROFLMAO Hahahahaha
And yes, any Type I Volkwagen driver in Upstate NY has an ice scraper in hand while driving at winter time!
A hair dryer would have been a nice thing to have for defrosting, but we had no source of power to get the necessary wattage to make it heat up enough to melt even butter. That idea re-occurred when I had my own bug. Besides, it would have been a hazard during rain storms! ^.^
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When I'm rich, I'm going to Germany to hunt a nice one down and restore it!
(I won't have to have neither an ice scraper nor a hair dryer though) ;-)
*please note the European spelling of 'favourite'
Why go to Europe? I have the one in my barn that you had in your garage since 197??? The red rag top with ~46k original miles. The engine turned over when we moved it here 9 years ago. I think we even have the baha stuff somewhere. Its suppose to be my mid life crises
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