Oh, I had another fabulous one. When I was in Virginia, getting ready to move up to MI for graduate school, my Mom flew out for a few days to help me pack. I was working until the end (needed the money!) so I left her alone during the day. One day she took all my laundry to a laundromat. The laundromat was not air-conditioned, as I recall, and this was August in Virginia–really hot outside.
When she was done with my clothes, she went to start my car and the battery was dead. Two young college guys in the laundromat saw her problem and offered to give her a jump. That didn’t work, so she had to call AAA. They said they’d wait with her in all that nasty heat. They went next door to the grocery store, bought a six-pack of beer, and they and my mom sat on the curb in the parking lot and drank beer and shot the shit while they waited. They didn’t leave until the car was running and they knew she was squared away.
I didn’t know about all this until I got home from work. My mom ended up having a marvelous time hanging out with those guys.
What a great thread.
Wipes away a tear
I’ve been poor ever since moving out on my own. It took me three months to find a job in Denver when I first moved here, and when I did finally get a job it only paid $5.50/hour. Inspite of that I found a roommate as fast as I could and moved out of my father’s best friend’s house. It was very nice of them to let me stay, but it was not a pleasant stay by any means. My new roommate moves out 9 days after signing the lease (due to reasons that I don’t care to get into here) and I am now stuck with rent for a two bedroom 2 bathroom place. I had no other prospects for roommates and I was having to buy groceries with my credit card as the rent was $200 more a month than my take home wages. Thank Og I worked for a grocery store and got a huge discount. Anyway, a girl I worked with asked me one day how much cash I had in my wallet. I told her I hadn’t a pennny and then she gave me $20, saying that she’d been there and wanted me to have a couple of bucks, pay her back when I could. I lost track of her shortly after that as she quit her job. Lisa, if you’re listening I have twenty bucks for you. Please come collect in person so I can thank you and tell you what that’s ment to me.
She also gave me a tiny black and white TV that’d lost it’s channel knob because the sum total of my posessions at the time were some blankets, a pillow, a lamp, a bookshelf, a couple of plates, a fork and a radio.