What A Lucky Day We've Had.

A super dooper day in Oberwart.

Synchronicity is real and alive. Take yesterday for example; One of my had lessons changed to the following day, Bob had the day off and we put enough pellets into the oven before we left. Oh, and we took our newish car for a spin to the shops so to speak.

After we had had lunch and shopped for a few items ( cat food being predominant ) we walked to our parking spot at the Einkaufszentrum Oberwart, got into the car and started it. Snap, crackle pop and that was all folks. Yes, an extremely loud noise that should not ever be made by a car emitted forth from ours. It boded a trip to the chariot's doctor...

Bob and I both have two left feet in regards to motor vehicles' ailments and thus stood there flummoxed. Only for a moment though as from then on all the stars aligned to help us. A passer bye helped us push our car ( it was sideways in the middle of the lane ) back into the parking space although taking any hope from us about driving it home by pronouncing,

" That sounds kaput! "

and I proceeded a long line of phone calls. Luckily I had the number of our car dealership stored in my phone and dialed my damsel in distress call.

They asked me to phone ÖAMTC in order to get the car towed to the garage. Well, luckily we had remembered to pay our yearly dues and all it took was one phone call for the big yellow rig to lord it into the car park. Quite a spectacle indeed. The chap couldn't have been any nicer and took all of our worries away by being cheerful, highly professional and positive. Contrary to our expectations, he didn't find anything too major wrong with our car. Yay!

Bob and I had the privilege of sitting high up in the yellow cab, being driven through a busy Oberwart. Not quite like an episode of Ice Road Truckers but close enough. As we speak our car is taking a breather in a bunk bed at the garage....and yes, it will be fixed and okay! My parents then came to fetch us and drove us home, how marvelous was that.

But, and that is a major one, we were so very lucky to have had this happen when it did. The car was stationary and as Bob and I were discussing, the thought of it having stopped dead in the middle of a busy highway or road, with cars driving at speed in both directions doesn't even bear thinking about. That it didn't happen at night somewhere off grid and most importantly, that Bob was there with me to weather this problem. Even today I have given numerous thanks to the panel above for choosing such an opportune moment to have a car break down. Life, so worth living...

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