On The Road Repairs

Things go bump in the night and kerplunk in the day regularly but their sounds often are muted by the rhythm of our live-a-day lives. But living our lives on the road the bumps and kerplunks are more noticeable.

First it was the loss of our interior lights in the minivan in Boston. That was the 4th of July weekend so we waited till Tuesday after the 4th to visit the Nissan Dealer in Keene, NH. They were most accommodating, even took Kirk on a test ride in the Nissan Rogue while the service guy ran it through a diagnostic work-up and concluded he didn’t know why the lights went out, but here’s a new fuse, and let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.

Well, it did happen again, a week later in Columbus, GA. The service guys at the Nissan dealer of Columbus were not confidence inspiring and their fees were greater than the previous dealership, but the wrench found the problem--a shorted out rear interior light that was blowing the fuse. Nice work guys.

Next it was my Kindle that worked perfectly at lunch in Durham, NC, but by the time we arrived in Seneca, SC the screen looked like someone had erased it with an incompetent eraser. Amazon delivered service beyond my expectations. A new Kindle arrived at G’ma Mary’s house in two working days!!!! Didn’t even need to return the broken one before receiving the new one. How sweet is that??

Next it was a broken foot. You’ve already heard the “how it happened” story, but that it happened while we were in Columbus where G’ma knows both of the leading orthopods way better than yankees know their neighbors is short of miraculous. That the doc I saw was the Dad of the Baker kids whose house our kids swam at every day in those GA summers is doubly short or miraculous. And, that one of those Baker kids is now an orthopedist himself and that Dad and son consulted on my treatment plan, well...we’re truly blessed.