A Serious Redneck Moment

Before reading my post, please go over to Amy's Humble Musings and read about her winding country lane... then come back here. You will enjoy mine much more for having read hers. She wrote it the day before yesterday. So go on over there...

OK- you back? Sweet post, wasn't it? Anyway- we were visiting Amy yesterday. She has kids the same ages as my younger kids, and the same gender order, so it works great. Eric and Amy get into verbal sparring matches, Greg and I just watch and laugh.

As we were ready to go out, Eric wanted to see the gun they just bought. So we spent another 15 minutes looking at it (while the kids were waiting in the car...), then finally left. As we drove down the winding country lane she described so eloquently, we see a car off in the ditch on the side of the rode. An older man is in the back seat.

Of course, we stop to see if he's OK, and to see if he needs help. He explains he ran off the road, and the driver's door was just too heavy. Then he climbed to the back, but couldn't slide that door open. Well, Eric helps him get out, and HE HAS TO MOVE HIS LEG WITH BOTH HANDS!!!

I thought, "This is the guy from the blog!!!" (Eric said later he had the same thought.) Unfortunately we are not totally Kentucky yet, so we don't have a chain to haul a car out of the mud. So we had to search for one.

We went back to Amy's, but all they had was tire chains, which would not have been strong enough.

So we went on and found another neighbor with a kid with a Big Ol' Truck, and a chain. The young man and his dad came and had a great time pulling the van out of the ditch. It was a magnificent sight... and about as Kentucky as could be. Just thought I'd share...