WOW... what a way to end the night... So, everyone was leaving church to so we could go hang out like we usually do after church. Jenny and I got into our car and were ready to go, some had already gottena head start. When I put the key in the ignition and turn it, the car doesn't start... at all...
So we're sitting there, hoping it's something silly or stupid that we could fix quickly so we could catch up with the rest of the gang that had already taken off, luckily, two or three of my friends were still there. In fact, one of them knows something about cars, though his specialty is in air conditioning...
Anyway, we tried everything we could to get the car started, but let's face it, besides Angel's (the guy I just mentioned) knowledge of automobile air conditioning, there's no one else that knew much about cars.
So, another friend calls me to see if we were already on our way. My point in this blog starts here, one of my friends actually called me just to see if I was on the way there or not. So, I tell him what happened, and he told that to the person next to him. I get another call in a few seconds, from the person who was driving that car, and he tells me that he's coming over to see if he can help with the car. By the way, everyone else had left church except for us, who were still messing with what little we knew about the car.
To my complete surprise, I don't see one car coming toward us to help... I see everyone that had already left, everyone that was already almost to the destination, come in at the same time. My point? They ALL came back, just to see what they could do with my car.
As soon as I saw all of those cars returning... I thought to myself: "Wow... instead of one or two people coming to help and the rest staying to have fun, they ALL came to help... I have REALLY good friends." As soon as I thought that, a slip crawled up on my lips.
So we're all there, staring at the inside of my car the way a bunch of non-educated farmers would look at a highly technological alien space ship... None of us had ANY idea what to do with the car. It didn't matter to me that none of them knew what to do to help, in fact, it made me feel better because I knew I wasn't the ONLY one there who didn't know anything about car mechanics. It only mattered to me that they were there to at least give me moral support.
In a worst case scenario, they were prepared to take me to my house (sure, I don't live too far apart from them, but it was still almost 1AM...) Some of them started to play soccer (at night...) with a ball... (which they lost...) but I didn't mind at all that they were having fun, in fact, I preferred it. It meant that I wasn't taking away all of the fun that they were going to have.
And that's all I wanted to say. I'm proud to say I have GREAT friends who wouldn't ditch me in my time of need. Thanks to you all. :)
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ReplyDeleteI think it was this summer, I have a friend of mine driving me to a city 1 hour from my place, to go to another friend B-day dinner, and we ended up getting in one of the worse fight ever (>.> he liked me too much at that time). So he left me at the restaurant, and I told him it was fine, he could just go back to his place (45 mins from where he dropped me off) and I didn't need him to drive me around if he hated me so much. (was a BAD fight I tell you ^^;). So I was stuck, at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere, with pouring rain outside. REALLY pouring. I ended up calling a friend, who lived FRIGGING far from where I was stuck, and he took the road to come and pick me up, even though the roads weren't looking good at all.
I'm grateful he helped me out, since I didn't know the city I was in, and couldn't have taken a bus back. But yah, it taught me to always know which friend won't let you down in bad weather ^^; or other worse case scenarios.