When I say it’s never a dull moment in my life, I mean it, I swear I don’t think I could make up the crazy stuff that happens to me if I tried.
On my way home from a client session this afternoon I’m cruising along on the Interstate (Freeway) and it’s rush hour with a gazillion cars all around. Just a few miles before the traffic was moving along very nicely and it suddenly slowed down as I was getting closer to the downtown area, today is truly one day where I am thankful that it had slowed down, I don’t know what would have happened if I had been going a normal interstate speed of 60+mph. Traffic had slowed to about 20 mph and I hear a really loud boom, pop and then it sounded like someone was dragging my car on it’s side through a pile of rocks. The alert in my car went off, WARNING FLAT TIRE, but it said not only one it said FOUR! ICCK! Now, I don’t think it could have picked a worse place for this to happen, I was right smack dab in the middle lane and as luck would have it in the section I was in there was not really a shoulder area on either side of the fast or slow lanes.
I pulled over as best I could to the wall, still sticking out in slow lane traffic. About ten minutes later traffic started picking up. My car was right at a point of a curve, I couldnt really go any further because it would lead to an even less of a shoulder than there already was. Also I couldn’t get out to see if all four tires really were flat because there were cars zooming by very quickly and big semi trucks (which already freak me out).
I got on the phone and called my roadside service who said that it was going to be at least 90 minutes. So I’m waiting, and keeping my eyes closed because of how close the cars were coming to me then quickly pulling to the side. Finally a *wonderful* police officer showed up and flared the interstate and called the HERO team to come and help me. They blocked off traffic and had me drive my car down the interstate until we reached the section that had a large shoulder. Talk about scary driving, the car was swerving all over the place even with me barely pushing on the gas. My front driver’s side tire had completely ripped away from the hub on the inside part and my back driver’s side tired was very low.
The HERO team quickly changed my tire (at no charge, how awesome is that) and put air in to my back tire. On my way home every, single tire shop was closed, so I luckily made it all that way on a donut (over 40 miles).
Check back tomorrow as I will be sharing a few sneak peeks of my awesome clients from today, they deserve their own blog post, instead of being lumped in with my tire talk.
Thank you to the very nice police officer and the Hero team for saving the day!
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