Yesterday evening after a day at work and my Business Calculus class at school I got into the car to head home. I had a bottle of black cherry soda there and, having a dry throat from the lecture, I opened it. For about a full second everything was fine. Then, disaster! It squirted soda all over the car!

Irritated at my stupidity, I got some paper towels from the trunk and cleaned everything up as best I could. While I was cleaning up, a woman got into a Civic parked close to me and tried to start it. All she got were clicks. Nothing else. She got out of the car, raised the hood, fiddled about the engine a bit, crossed herself, then tried to start it again. Only clicks.

I finished the mopping up, then walked over and asked if she needed a jump start. "It's not the battery," she said, "because the radio works." I told her that the starter takes a lot more power than the radio, and it couldn't hurt to try. We did, it started up right away, and she was off, grateful.

If I'd been smart and opened the bottle outside the car, I'd have been gone long before she arrived, and who knows how long she might have had to wait to get help.

It's interesting how blessings can be well-camouflaged sometimes.

Help someone today.

 

Blessing for her, mess for your red S.

 

It's cool that you see it that way, magician. I agree. I believe everything happens for a reason... Sometimes finding or waiting for that reason is the difficult part. I'll try and help someone today (or this week).

 

Nice story Magician! I'm gonna post a link over in s2ksocal, this is excellent reading material.

 

How do you know I wasn't in the Civic?

(I wasn't, but how did you know? Were you the one who came over and shook the bottle? )

Not much of a mess, really: a little on the seats, a little on the shift boot and hand brake, a little on the roof and emergency switches (this took the most time to clean; lots of little crevices), but mostly in the cup holder. The nice thing is that nothing was sticky afterward. That's my blessing.

 

Bill-

I confess. I shook the bottle when you weren't looking.