Day off? Whatever...

I had the day off yesterday from work, but wound up working much harder that when I am at work! I had 7 packages to pack, build boxes for and ship from eBay stuff, then ran local errands all afternoon and then we had homegroup. Bear in mind that I did not get to bed until 3am the night before. After home group, I had an urgent repo to work. Here is how that went....

My friend Josh from Linn County has been bugging me for weeks about calling him to help on a repo job. He lives an hour and 15 minutes north of Pittsburg. I called him and he jumped at the chance. So Josh drove his 14 mpg Ford pickup down from Linn Valley to help out....HAHA!! Anyway, we left promptly after he arrived for Independence, KS. The banker had stashed the keys behind the bank for me to find. I found them there and we went on the hunt for the truck. They told me this dude was "unstable", to which I replied "so am I". We were driving into town and spotted what we thought was our target leaving a bar. Turns out it was not the right truck. However, once we stopped the chase on the first one, we spotted another truck matching the description of the truck we were looking for and low and behold it was the one! I just about freaked! We were able to then tail the guy for over a 1/2 an hour until he stopped at McDonalds for a quick bite. I approached him and gave him the bad news. He was quite cordial and allowed me to drive the truck from there to where he could unload all of his tools. He and a friend did so and things were good. Even his dog "buddy" was cool with me. It was a bit dark where we did the unload, but I was not afraid. I knew that he was cooperating. Josh however, was clueless, he was freaking out thinking we were about to get into some trouble. Picture it, he is in the van watching from a safe distance, but close enough to see everything. Here I am alone with the 2 of them, they have tools, shovels, saws, big blades for trimming sheet rock and many other menacing things that could be construed as weapons, a huge boxer dog jumps out of the truck.......you get the idea. His heart rate was juking! All went well and we got the truck. We did not get back till after 1am. That is my story and I am sticking to it. - DJ