LUCK ... Best damn coffee ... Thanks North Hampton Fire Department

An after work moment I hope there are less of in my life. When you think things are going ok, take a breath, somethings trying to tell you ...something. 2012

 Well, here I am. Really 'I' am here. Let me explain myself. I go to work in warmth and foggy day. I leave after rainy and cooled down evening. Sunday night I stopped for coffee, my one perk at the end of the day, sometimes...not always stopping for coffee ... but, this saturday night someone nearly side swipped me on the interstate, when I swerved to avoid an accident, my coffee ended up on the passenger floor-board. I got to enjoy that coffee smell all  the way home, yuck...puddled on the floor. I've never spilt anything ever before in my car, or anyone else's until last night. Very disappointing and messy. I stopped again tonite for a coffee, explained to the girl what happened saturday night and told her I was hoping for a better evening, She had a coupon and gave me a .50 cent discount and laughed how this would bring me better luck tonight. Neither of us would know just the extent her comment would come back to haunt me in just under 30 minutes from then ... or how right, she would be. Traveling down the highway as I do every night, just 5 minutes before arriving home, I found myself in trouble ... car trouble. I'd been having water issues with my cars radiator  but had filled the reservoir before leaving home sunday morning ... the light didn't come on but the noise was horrible. Sounded like a fork in a garbage disposable. The front end of my car began to shake only a little, I kept telling my car to please go just a bit farther where I'd be off the turn ramp onto a main street just blocks from my home, but the car started acting funny and pulled itself off to the right onto the shoulder of the roadway, sliding to a stop in the mud, grounding the wheels down into the muck and stopped. Damn, I believed is  what came out of my mouth as I was looking for my cell phone to call my daughter, when I saw smoke coming up around the front end. I just dialed 911, in case, and started grabbing my stuff to get out of the car.  Fairly sure I'm about to meet up with more trouble than I knew, for what I was thinking was just a water pump problem. You would think at my age I would know how to handle a 911 call to tell them where I was, and west, east, etc..  I managed to   tell what I could see, smoke around my car as I was getting my things to get out, and where I believed I was on the ramp as best I could. When my cell phone went out, no more signal, no ability to continue the call. My cell had died  on me, dispite my charging it the night before. Now, I'm on an off ramp with loads of by-passing traffic, in the rain  and dark, on the side of he road, non-working cell, smoke had gone now, and in the distance I hear the sirens of the fire truck coming. Now I'm upset because the smoke had settled or gone, but embarrassed that I wasn't gonna go up in flames, and abit confused too. Glad that they came, and when they were inspecting my car for the smoke, I'm telling them about the water pump, what I was sure was or happened, when the fireman said, "no, I don't think so, it's your tire, it's flat." I said,"no, there was no shaking or pulling untill I got up on the ramp here and,"... then I looked down to what he was showing me....DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN...I've got to be the luckiest coffee drinker in the world ... my whole enitre tire was rippped apart on the rim ... and never did any of the expected usual things a blown tire on the front drivers side should have done  ... I drove nearly a quarter mile with that noise and tire ripped nearly into shreds, but still somehow remained on the rim. Amazed was a fair call at this point. The fireman let me use his cell to call my home, tell my son to call my daughter for help to come get me ... a 25 minute wait for my daughter to come from her home to reach me on the ramp as the firemen waited with me, up there in the dark to make sure I was both safe and not hit by a passing car in that turn, thier truck lights flashing. May I take this moment to THANK YOU ALL 5 FOR YOUR VALOR AND KINDNESS ABOVE THE CALL OF YOUR DUTY...THANKS NORTH-HAMPTON FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE LADY AT 911. My ride came, they left, we left. We all went back later to change that tire and get my car out of harms way, and to keep others from running into it in the dark area it was sitting, but looking at the tire again just made me ill. I was one lucky girl sunday night, and I love my angel, I am glad that angel was on alert for me. So, there you go. Need someone to help out in that situation and there they are.  Thank you again. My coffee, luckiest best damn coffee ever and made it all the way home, and I drank it cold. Stay safe, LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE.