by Tammi Miller on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 10:25am
I went to Tucson to pick up a good friend of mine, Jonette, who was coming down to help me get my house ready before everyone got here. She has a house here and was going to be spending Thanksgiving here anyway, she just came before her family.
I got in on Thursday at 11pm, then the entire day on Friday we tried to shop. I took 1/2 of the commission money to buy a table, couch and other household stuff. We were like mad women. I had borrowed a trailer to put all the stuff in and was halling that trailer all around Tucson. we were exhausted but not finished at 9pm. So we decide to finish up on Saturday morning and hopefully leave by 12 noon. So we took off, Me, Morgan, Jonette, and her 7 year old Katie.
We didn’t end up leaving until 5pm and Dad’s Expedition and the trailer were packed. We got about an hour before Hermosillo and had a blow out on one of the trailer tires. Thank God there was a pull out right away. That was at 10:30 pm. We called the FREE roadside service that is offered on the toll roads. I didn’t think it would be prudent to have Dad come for us.. 3 hours away, and he still didn’t have a tire anyway.
At 12:40 the tow truck came and put the trailer on his truck and we followed him to THREE tire places. None of them had a tire that size. So he finally dropped us off at the last tire shop just outside Hermosillo at 3:45 am. I didn’t want to leave the trailer, so we slept in the car. I think I fot to sleep around 4:30.. but not very restful in the car. Then at 6:30 we got up to search for a tire. It was Sunday so there wasn’t much open, plus it was so early. We finally bought a tire from Sams for $1,115 pesos.. I would have paid $7,000 pesos. We sped back to the tire shop, the whole time I was saying that after this crappy night if there was one single thing missing on that trailer I would go ballistic….literally.
We got there and everything was fine. I found out the reason for the blowout was because the tire pressure was too low for the load on the trailer… note to self… always check tire pressure before long trip.
We got on the road at 9am thrilled to pieces that all was well. We drove into San Carlos around 10:30 and just as we were coming into town, we hit a bump and the trailer came off! The guy at the tire place didn’t put it on right and left off the saftey pin. I saw the trailer start to speed up like it was going to ram me, so i pulled over into the left lane just in time for the trailer to speed past us in the lane we were in!!! We were speechless. Then then trailer hit the curb and went into a ditch 3 ft high with grass & weeds. There was NOTHING wrong with the trailer except the front of the hitch that needs to be replaced from skidding on the pavement.
Luckily a nice bystander stopped to help and so did the police. Jonette took pictures of the police about to write me a ticket for not having my driver’s license with me, i told them there was no way they could do that to me after the night I had had. They laughed and said… You’re right, we won’t give you a ticket.
We chained the trailer to the car and drove 5 mph to the house. Morgan was laughing and said she felt like we were in a parade and kept waving out the window. The police followed me home to make sure I got back ok.
I thank God for giving us a good laugh and protecting us the entire way!!!
