MDM got a phone call at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. It wasn't an elf wanting to know where to deliver my new Jeep Wrangler. It was another elf who said she was broke down in West Covina and her car was on fire! Sixty miles from home.So MDM threw his tools in the truck and headed down the hill with the Mom. Found the elf at a Shell gas station eating pizza. Gangsters kept driving by her black 1999 Mercury Cougar giving us the eye. I got chewed out by the elf for giving them the eye back.
Turns out the elf's car lost it's water pump belt and it got hot under the hood sort to speak. By this time it was after 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve and nothing was open except the guy on the corner selling little plastic bags. Things did not look good. But then, at the last moment, a light shown in the east and MDM had an epiphany! Make your own belt!
MDM gathered up string and wire and grass and twigs and made a band that looked just like a bungee cord with the hooks cut off. It worked perfectly! We kept the rpm's below 2000 and hit the interstate. Max speed - 45 mph. We got the elf home at 10 p.m. and she promptly jumped in MDM's truck and drove off to the elves' Christmas party with her elfin boyfriend.
MDM hit the Jack and took the Mom to bed.
Merry Christmas!
A most excellent and sure to be memorable Christmas eve story! Happy Holidaze to MDM, Mom, and elves. SWAK Chris
ReplyDeleteSharon or Jaimie (it was Sharon's phone but I think it was Jaimie texting), sent a picture of you in the hood of the car but we thought it was you loading presents in the trunk (not a very clear picture). All it said was "Merry Christmas from the Wallace's!". Finally, after 30 minutes of texting back and forth with Jaimie we got the whole story. I kept having to ask details about the bungee cord (for Randy). In the end, Randy's last comment as he was smiling and nodding off, "Damned ole coal miner!".
ReplyDeleteGood thing you've got the engineer smarts! What a great XMAS Eve tale!
ReplyDeleteI kinda liked how the red bungee cord matched the battery! Thanks again! :D MUAH!
ReplyDeleteThis is the funniest story I have heard since the squirrel rifle and Uncle Rockin' Randall!
ReplyDeleteI love the Donkey picture Dad!!!
ReplyDelete