MIRACLES IN ONE MANS LIFE 2

TRUE STORY

A MIRACLE IN MY YOUTH

Ok I Was About 28 Or So I Have A Small Contracting Business Cleaning Movie Theaters I Made Pretty Good Money Too. But The Problem Was That For 5 Years I Did Not Have A Day Off. One Day One Of My Little Brothers Called Me And Asked What I Was Doing For A Living, And I Told Him.

Spooky Told Me That He Was Working For A Redi Mix Company Called Calmat And He Was Driving A Mixer Delivering Concrete And Making Awesome Money Doing It And That I Needed To Get A Job There. The Problem Is I Dropped Out Of School To Be In A Band And Never Got My High School Diploma And To Get This Job I Needed Two Things, A GED And A Commercial License.

The Company Made A Grave Mistake Telling Me That I Can’t Have That Job. No One Tells Me That I Can’t Have Something, So Every Day After I Was Done Cleaning The Theaters I Went To GED School And Learned All That I Needed To Learn To Take The Test. About 6 Months Went By And I Took The Test And Past With A Score High Enough To Get Into ASU If I Chose To Do That.

Now I Needed To Take The CDL Test So I Got The CDL Book Studied My Arse Off And In Three Months Took The Test And Passes With A 98%

I Then Went Back To The Union Hall And Applied For The Driving Job. I Was Given An Interview There Were 12 People In That Office That Day For An Interview And They Were Only Going To Hire 2 People That Day.

And Of Course I Got The Job. I Trained For About Two Weeks Learning Everything I Needed To Learn To Drive A Mixer Safely.

I Was Put With A Driver Trainer For About 3 Weeks Then They Gave Me My Own Mixer. Now Here Is Where My Life Almost Ended. I Was Driving Down 24^th Street Heading To A Job. Ok Wait A Min Let Me Set This Up A Bit More. The Mixer I’m Driving Has What We Like To Call Balloon Tires On The Back Which Mean I Have Only Four Tire In The Back Instead Of 8. This Mixer Also Has A Hard Tail Suspension So This Truck Bounces All Over The Place When You Hit A Bump.

Ok I Was Driving Down 24^th Street And I Hit A Set Of Real Old Railroad Tracks At About 45 Miles An Hour When I Did This The Truck Began To Bounce All Over The Road Now Remember I Am Loaded With 9 Yards Of Concrete At About 3.7 To 4 Thousand Pounds A Yard. Now My Truck Is Bouncing Uncontrollably And The Truck Starts To Tip Over I’m Riding On The Driver’s Side Wheels And It Is Going To Roll Over. There Was A Median In The Middle Of The Road That Had Landscaping With Trees And Shrubs And So Forth. The Truck Is Rolling Over And Just Then The Drum Of The Truck, (This Is What Holds The Concrete) Smacks A Very Big Palm Tree And Knocks The Truck Back Strait Again. I Regain Control Of The Truck Pull Over Check My Shorts And Continued To The Job. Now I Don’t Know How It Happened But If I Was In The Right Lane This Truck Would Have Flipped Over And I Could Have Been Seriously Hurt Or Even Killed. But Luck Would Have It The Palm Tree Was Right Where I Needed It At That Moment To Knock The Truck Back Strait Again. And I Thanked The Good Lord For Putting It There.