Damn Nissan

After softball today, I decided to drive to the Goodwill to buy a cable for the used HP LaserJet printer that Barb bought me there.  I was just turning onto the highway and the battery light came on and the car stalled.  I got out the car  and tried to push the car out of the way of traffic and signaled the other cars in the turning lane to drive around the stalled Nissan.  Then I started walking to the gas station to call a tow truck.  A couple stopped and asked if I needed help to push the car off the road.  He was a big black guy and he and I pushed the car partially up the curb.  I said it should be okay there. Then the couple went back to their car and as they were getting in their car a van pulled over and started handing him money out of the window.  I never thought to give him money for helping me.

I started walking to the gas station and a couple of girls stopped and asked if I needed a ride because it was a little bit of a walk to the gas station.  So I got in their car and they drove me to the gas station where I used their phone because I don't have a cell phone.  I also had to use their phone book which the lady had to blow the dust off because who uses a phone book these days.  I phoned a tow truck company that I thought was close and after being put on hold for a long time, the lady on phone told me that they couldn't get me a tow truck until tomorrow.  So I phoned another tow truck company and after a long time on hold, the lady said that she couldn't get a tow truck for an hour.  I said okay and that I would wait beside my car.

I walked back to my car and got there just in time for a police car to drive up.  The police man got out and told me I needed to push the car right off the road.  He and I pushed the car up over the curb and onto the grass beside the highway.  Another policeman stopped and he was impressed that we could push the car over the curb by ourselves.  The policeman asked me if he should phone a tow truck for me and I said no one was coming.  So they drove away.

Then later, a Villages Security truck stopped and asked me if I needed any help.  I told him that I had called a tow truck and that I was planning to get them to tow the car to a Von's garage on Highway 446A and asked him how to get to 446A.  He explained how far it was.  Then I said that Von's garage was near the Lady Lake library and he said that was on Highway 446.  The same highway I was already on and not the 446A.  It was good that he stopped because I would have never found the garage by myself.  He phoned in that my car was stalled but off the highway and there was no traffic jam and drove away.

Later as I was waiting, someone else stopped and asked me, out their car window, if I needed help and I said no I had called a tow truck and was just waiting for it to come.

I waited an hour exactly and the tow truck came.  It was there just in time because Von's garage was closing at 5 pm and they lock the gate.  So you can't just drop the car off there.  We got to the garage just in time but unfortunately, it was Thursday night and they are closed on Fridays.  So they would not be able to look at it until Monday morning. 

I used Von's phone to call home to ask Barb to come pick me up but Barb wasn't home and I had to leave a message.  Since the garage was closing I decided to wait across the street at the library.  Then I called home again from the library because they were closing at 6 pm.  I had to leave another message and I went outside to wait.  I saw Barb drive by in the Honda and then I realized she didn't know where the library was.  She stopped at a couple of places close by but nobody knew where the library was.  Then she came out of one of the parking lots and was on Library Lane