December 3, 2018-A national day of mourning.

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Our beloved 41st president, George H. W. Bush passed away on November 30, 2018. A memorial service was held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. at 11 a.m. ET, December 3, 2018.

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Trouble north of Johnson City

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On a cold December 3, 2018, my husband and I were on our way to Brownsville, Texas, to visit my brother and sister. Everything was going fine until, a few miles north of Johnson City, my husband said, “I have to pull over. I see trooper lights behind me.”

Well, my hubby pulled over too fast, and we hit a rock as our SUV traveled to the right-of-way. A loud clank startled me, and so did the trooper who stood at the passenger side window, telling me to open it. The incident had traumatized me, and I suddenly became an incompetent window opener. I couldn’t open the window. For some uncanny reason, the button didn’t work. So I opened the door, probably not the right thing to do, but I made sure the deputy sheriff saw my hands.

Deputy Sheriff Fisher

The trooper told my husband, “Do you know why I pulled you over? You were speeding. I clocked you at 83 mph.” I’m not sure if this is exactly what he said, but Leadfoot (my hubby) apologized.

The deputy sheriff was very nice because he only gave us a warning.

Blown out tire

Since the door was open, I looked at the side of the car, trying to figure out if anything had happened to it. That’s when I noticed the front tire had blown out. The sheriff also saw it and offered to help us. He didn’t leave us stranded on the highway, waiting for help.

Deputy sheriff Fisher called Deputy sheriff Fox. Between the two of them, they tried to help us replace the tire, but they couldn’t get to the spare. The tools needed to get the spare were not in their compartment.  Evidently, last year when we had a tire replaced, somebody at that business stole our equipment, and we didn’t find out that it was missing until we had this accident.

Deputy Sheriff Fox

The officers checked their toolboxes for anything that could be used to open the compartment.

Officers looking for tools

Deputy Sheriff Fisher

Deputy Fisher called someone at the Peterson tire store. A young man came by with the proper tools and replaced the blown out tire with the spare. My husband tried to give him some money, but he didn’t accept it, neither did the officers.

I asked the officers if it was okay to take pictures because I wanted to put the story on my website. They didn’t object, but one said a funny comment, “As long as it’s not something bad about us.”

I told them that I wanted the world to know that they had been extremely kind to us. With their help, we made it to San Antonio. The trip took us a while since the spare didn’t allow us to drive over a speed of 40 to 45 miles.