Ever get the feeling that certain things were just meant to happen?

Tonight we drove down to Carson Valley to eat dinner. At some point along the way, my husband noticed a hitchhiker, so when we headed back after dinner, he stopped to get gas and told me to go in and buy a bottle of water (it’s super hot and dry down there this week) in case we see the hitchhiker again.

So, I bought the biggest bottle I find and we headed towards Walmart to get groceries before we headed home. We didn’t see the hitchhiker again, and we stopped to buy our list of items at the store, then continued up the mountain towards home.

By this time, it’s well past sunset and getting pretty dark. We saw a car with its hood open at a pullout along Hwy 28, about halfway home. My husband said he wanted to see if they needed a jump, so we turned around and headed back to the incapacitated car.

The driver was Hispanic with pretty broken English, a little difficult to understand, but my husband quickly realized that the car had actually overheated and the driver was looking for the now missing radiator cap.

My husband returned to our car and retrieved the Costco flashlight from his toolbox in the back and offered it to the driver. They spent a few minutes inspecting things, and the driver eventually spotted the cap and carefully reached in to grab it.

At this point, my husband asked the driver if he wanted some water to refill his radiator to at least help him get home. The driver said with disbelief, “Yes? You have water?”

I smiled to myself and handed my husband the giant bottle of water originally intended for a thirsty hitchhiker.

They dumped it all in, but it didn’t fill up completely, so I offered the remaining water from the stainless steel bottle I’d brought with me for the car ride. (It happened to be a recent birthday gift from my parents, who bought it in my hometown.) And sure enough, that was enough water to fill it back up and (hopefully) get him home.

The driver thanked my husband and then lowered his head and peered through our car window and said to me, plain as day, “Thank you, lady.”

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