Todd is a faithful member of our construction team! He's been through it all on the sites down in West Virginia.
Where I Needed to Go
"On the way back (from the site), I stopped at the church, and just as I got to the back road going up to the church, I heard a pop and a squeal. And my serpentine belt came off. My power steering blew out, so I parked behind the church, came inside, and Joe and George took me down to the repair shop in Cherry Falls. And when we got there, we told him we were with the church group and in trouble. They asked where it was, and I gave them my key. They drove down. These guys looked at the truck, realized they couldn't fix it on site, so they drove or towed it to their shop. They ordered the parts. They said, 'We'll give you a discount because you're with the church group.' So, already, just towing it down there if we were in Jersey would be a three hundred dollar deal. I stopped in to see them today, and they said the truck that was brining the pump broke down, so the owner of the truck is right now driving to Somerville (an hour to an hour and a half a way) to pick up the pump itself, bring it back, so he can get the truck together today, and then on top of it, they said 'Well, we don't take credit cards, so if you just wanna send us a check when you get back home. That'll be fine.' It doesn't happen that way in Jersey. If I had broken down halfway here or halfway home on some windy road without power steering, it would have been a catastrophe. I literally parked it in a (parking) space, walked a few feet to the church, and someone picked me up and took me where I needed to go."
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