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14 August 2006

A Lucky Break So we made two round trips from Eugene to Portland and back over the weekend. [More:]As a result of the combination of Daughter's rock camp and the fact she had tickets to the last ever Sleater Kinney show. And the fact that we could find no one to take care of the dog.

Anyway, on Sunday, we are driving north and a tire blows. Wife gets it off the freeway skillfully (with the added degree of difficulty of me yelling and gesturing how she should be doing that) and I find out that the traction thingie I have over the front hubs won't come off because I don't have a socket set with which to remove them.

After trying to use the jumper cables as a wrench, and drawing blood in the process, I limp the car up the ramp off the freeway (Ankeny Hill, middle of nowhere), and we see this guy, having stopped about a quarter mile in front of us, running though the dry parched field between the freeway on off ramp towards us. . .he's here to help and he miraculously has one of these Leatherman tools on his belt, which works to get the bolts off the spike-spider.

We both have black t shirts on, it's hot, we are sweating a lot but we change the tire to the dipshit little spare and it's actually got enough air pressure to drive on.

This guy just stopped out of the goodness of whatever, did not have an agenda, just being nice.

He lives in corvallis and there is a very good bottle of Pinot coming his way.
Yay to kindness of strangers!
posted by occhiblu 14 August | 10:46
That's great!

I didn't get to see any of the Girls' Rock'n'Roll camp performances, but was sitting at a bar just outside the venue and every once in a while get a waft of music. I feel a special kind of pride about those girls because I used to teach voice there. They are awesome!
posted by Specklet 14 August | 11:24
Blessings to the kindness of strangers everywhere.
posted by getoffmylawn 14 August | 11:26
I musta walked right past you Specklet. . .the Bagdad has gotten the McMenniman treatment. . .which it not a totally bad thing maybe. They seem to do a good job of retaining the character of the places they buy.

The camp seems a great thing. . .she applied last year but was turned down, so I am proud of her for persisting.
posted by danf 14 August | 11:46
Pay it forward, dude.
posted by redvixen 14 August | 17:11
Pay it forward, dude.


Been doin' that since before it was a term, dude.
posted by danf 14 August | 17:33
I was actually at Greater Trumps, around the corner from the Bagdad. It's McMennamined out too, but in a non-obnoxious way.

Sorry I missed you!
posted by Specklet 14 August | 18:51
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