Snakefood
09-06-11, 02:21 PM
I was listening to an old CD of mine that mamma has had for years and on it is a song called "the circle of love" It brought to mind last summer (which completely SUCKED for our family) when my faith in humanity was restored after decades of being jaded.
So this thread is for the stories we can all share that proves that humanity does still exist!!!!
My story: (it's going to be long!!)
In June of 2010, my husband lost his job, he was fired for a mistake that he fully admits to having made, however the safety inspector who should have caught the mistake was allowed to keep his job. Regardless, being fired means no EI, thankfully I was working at the time, and although I did not make enough to support the family, it did mean we sank slower than we would have had I not been working. Then in june it got worse, my husbands father passed away and now we had to make the trip across 2 provinces to go to his funeral. Getting an advance from my awesome boss, off we go to south-eastern AB. pulling into our friends house in Kelowna our truck breaks down, we don't have time to fix it before continuing our trip and have to rent a car for the rest of the trip. Exhausted we pull into Ribstone @ 3am with a very cranky 3 tr old, do the funeral ect, ect...... start getting ready to go and our son runs, mach 3 into the steel rim of the fire pit and splits his head open. After a day in the hospital, we finally get going homeward bound. To make up time we try to drive all night, runnning dangerously low on gas in the mountains we find a station open and fill up, finding that our debit is saying insufficient funds when I KNOW there is still at least $600 in there!! NO CC and they won't accept mamma's CC over the phone (policy) this wonderful man paid the difference, after I emptied all cash we had, out of his own pocket. It was only like $19, but still not many would:yes:
Then we finally pulled into golden at 4am, neither of us could drive any longer, we stopped at a hotel to see if they would either accept payment of CC over the phone or pymt in the morning after I chewed out my bank. At first she said no to both. So I started to leave and she asked what I was doing out at this time of night. I told her about the unexpected road trip and the confusion bank wise that could not be solved until the bank opened in the am, as soon as she heard I had a 3 yr old in the car, she swooped us up and into a room for the night, fed us in the am and then refused pymt when I got the $$ figured out with my bank (they thought they should hold the advance from my boss for 7 days!)
On we go back to Kelowna to our friends house to spend as long as it took to fix the truck, knowing that I was going home to bills that could now not be paid and not knowing how much the repair was going to cost. Our beautiful, wonderful friends had been doing a fund-raiser in thier church group FOR US, as they were well aware of the all that had happened to us that summer. This paid for the truck repair and many of the bills that were waiting at home for us. As well as having enough to make our mark in the circle of love by helping out a family in need on our trip home by filling thier gas tank and getting a meal into them and thier kids so they could make it to her moms after they both lost thier jobs and finally thier home.
Many wonderful, thoughful and caring people helped us along our way through our "summer of hell" People who didn't have to, people who had no reason to care about me or mine, but did anyways.:)
I can't wait to hear all of your stories!!
So this thread is for the stories we can all share that proves that humanity does still exist!!!!
My story: (it's going to be long!!)
In June of 2010, my husband lost his job, he was fired for a mistake that he fully admits to having made, however the safety inspector who should have caught the mistake was allowed to keep his job. Regardless, being fired means no EI, thankfully I was working at the time, and although I did not make enough to support the family, it did mean we sank slower than we would have had I not been working. Then in june it got worse, my husbands father passed away and now we had to make the trip across 2 provinces to go to his funeral. Getting an advance from my awesome boss, off we go to south-eastern AB. pulling into our friends house in Kelowna our truck breaks down, we don't have time to fix it before continuing our trip and have to rent a car for the rest of the trip. Exhausted we pull into Ribstone @ 3am with a very cranky 3 tr old, do the funeral ect, ect...... start getting ready to go and our son runs, mach 3 into the steel rim of the fire pit and splits his head open. After a day in the hospital, we finally get going homeward bound. To make up time we try to drive all night, runnning dangerously low on gas in the mountains we find a station open and fill up, finding that our debit is saying insufficient funds when I KNOW there is still at least $600 in there!! NO CC and they won't accept mamma's CC over the phone (policy) this wonderful man paid the difference, after I emptied all cash we had, out of his own pocket. It was only like $19, but still not many would:yes:
Then we finally pulled into golden at 4am, neither of us could drive any longer, we stopped at a hotel to see if they would either accept payment of CC over the phone or pymt in the morning after I chewed out my bank. At first she said no to both. So I started to leave and she asked what I was doing out at this time of night. I told her about the unexpected road trip and the confusion bank wise that could not be solved until the bank opened in the am, as soon as she heard I had a 3 yr old in the car, she swooped us up and into a room for the night, fed us in the am and then refused pymt when I got the $$ figured out with my bank (they thought they should hold the advance from my boss for 7 days!)
On we go back to Kelowna to our friends house to spend as long as it took to fix the truck, knowing that I was going home to bills that could now not be paid and not knowing how much the repair was going to cost. Our beautiful, wonderful friends had been doing a fund-raiser in thier church group FOR US, as they were well aware of the all that had happened to us that summer. This paid for the truck repair and many of the bills that were waiting at home for us. As well as having enough to make our mark in the circle of love by helping out a family in need on our trip home by filling thier gas tank and getting a meal into them and thier kids so they could make it to her moms after they both lost thier jobs and finally thier home.
Many wonderful, thoughful and caring people helped us along our way through our "summer of hell" People who didn't have to, people who had no reason to care about me or mine, but did anyways.:)
I can't wait to hear all of your stories!!