Yesterday, we headed into town to take Milah to track and were diverted from the main highway onto a little curvy country road due to an accident. We were zipping along perfectly, when the truck suddenly lost power and stopped, blocking a lane. Uuuuhh, that's a problem - especially when all the highway traffic had been detoured to this particular road.
Milah and Maren were flagging traffic with their heads poked out the back window, while I'm frantically calling and occasionally turning the key hoping it fires. While numerous familiar faces drove by, Maren went to relieve herself. I asked her to find a hidden area - but she walked up the hill, that overlooked the scene, behind a teeny tree and could easily be spotted by passersby (Hello Maren - if you can see the cars - they can see you). Scott showed up and towed us up the road a bit and the tow truck came to haul the beast away. Although we really like this truck, it seems to be very cantankerous - and is beginning to be highly unreliable. Yeah, it's a Ford, keep your comments to yourself - thanks.
Just as the taillights of the tow truck dissappeared around the corner, a man pulled out of his driveway near us and took a right onto the road. For some reason, he cut the corner too sharp and buried the front of his new Ford pickup in a DEEP ditch. I thought, "We're never gonna make it home tonight!" "Un-be-liev-able", was the look on Scott's face. The man threw it in reverse, but his one back tire was off the ground probably 10 feet. He then slammed it in 4 wheel drive and drove out of the ditch. Eyes widened, our mouths dropped to our chests and we burst out laughing. We quickly hopped in the Jeep and headed down the road (very carefully)- we'd had enough action for one evening.
Update: the culprit was a bad fuel pump. We have started drafting a letter to Ford to explain our predicament and have discovered that we have owned 24 different Fords throughout the years (some were Company rigs, and not all were perty new ones). Ford has never let us down, but apparently this last one was grown in Florida because it is a LEMON!
2 comments:
Oh my goodness! I am tired just reading this! Glad everything turned out ok! By the way, I love the pictures of the girls with the truck! LOVE THE TRUCK!
I'm sure you could do much better. That old truck is near the pond, so next time you come, you can get some pics with it. I was trying to copy some I'd seen where the girls were laying on their stomachs on the hood with their feet kicked up behind them - but that didn't work:(
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