North bound I-45

I have a story to tell. I was travelling on I 45 just outside of Dickinson, listening to my radio, enjoying the highway scenery (yeah right!), when all of a sudden my truck engine quits. Yes I mean on I-45 travelling in interstate traffic. The traffic is not bad at all. I am going 65 or 70 mph when the engine quits and I just coast. Can't do a thing to my truck except to make my way to an exit and slowly.....yes very slowly coast to the side of the road on I-45 access road. I stop and try to figure what going on, but can't find anything wrong. I move my battery cables around......everything I knew to do I did, and nothing worked.

So there I am sitting on the access road of I-45.....windows rolled down......nice smell of car exhaust rushing through my windows. I am loving this. I am trying to get home so I can eat a quick bite and go to 1055 (youth bible study), so as I am sitting there I decide to try the engine again.....IT STARTS!! Oh yeah back in business....but I stay on the access road with windows rolled down still going about 50 mph. And I get onto FM 517 and I am just hoping the engine will not die again. So I get about 7 miles outside town and it dies. Not in business anymore. But the road does not have a shoulder to pull over on, but it does have a turning lane. So I coast onto the middle turning lane and just sit there. I call Erica and tell her whats up. I let the host of 1055 know I won't make it tonight. I call for a wrecker to come and pick us up because I sit for 30 -45 minutes and still it does not start. No bueno! Wrecker comes and picks the truck up and takes it to a car shop in town. I let the car shop owner I brought it to his place. The truck is being worked on today. Mechanic said it was a gas line processor? Something like that? He said it is a computer chip in the gas line to the engine that tells the gas pump to do its job.

I bet most of you are thinking that I will come up with some way to make a point from this story, but I am not. I probably will later! That's it.

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