4:30 - Tom leaves for the airport. He's going to Utah to work. His plane leaves at 6:30.
4:45 - Tom's gas light comes on.
4:55 - Tom stops at a gas station in Spokane to get gas
5:20 - Tom gets to the airport
5:25 - Tom boards the shuttle from the parking lot, sits down, looks for his wallet in his pocket to tip the driver, and can't find his wallet. Tom then gets out of the shuttle, goes back to his car and begins a frantic search for his wallet. NO LUCK!
Tom then calls me completely panicked.
"Well hun, did you leave it at home?"
"No, I had it when I got gas. I think I set it on top of the car and must have drove off."
"I'll get online and find the gas station and call it. Get BACK in the car and head towards the gas station."
"OK, but my plane leaves in less than an hour. There is no way I'll make it."
"Just GO."
We both say a little prayer. HELP!!! About 2 minutes pass when...
5:35 - REI calls Tom's phone. "I just got a call from a police officer in downtown Spokane that has your wallet. Here is the phone number. He said to call him directly." (Apparently the police officer called REI when he found Tom's REI card in the wallet and REI luckily had his cell number on file.)
Tom calls the police officer
5:45 - Tom meets up with the police officer in downtown Spokane and starts racing back to the airport.
6:05 - Tom pulls back into the airport parking lot, parks his car (in a closer lot where he can make a mad dash for the Southwest counter). He makes it to the counter, checks his suitcase, gets through security.
6:25 - Tom makes it to his gate with 5 minutes to spare!
Luck or miracle?
Tom checked for his wallet before he got to the ticket counter...
A police officer had his wallet...
He called right away...
REI had his cell number...
He made it back in time to park and check a bag...
Tom made the LAST flight of the day to Salt Lake (he has a full day of patients scheduled tomorrow)...
We feel blessed!
6 comments:
miracle. omg that is so crazy! i'm so happy it had a happy ending! this reminds me of my luck or miracle airport story: I woke up at 4am to take my roommate Rachel to the airport. Her flight left at 6:10am. We drove north to the BUSH continental airport. I probably dropped her off at 4:50 and drove away. 10 minutes later she called me panicked... she was at the wrong airport! Hobby airport was 25 minutes south of our apartment and we just drove 40 minutes north. The Delta lady at BUSH gave her her boarding pass and said she'd call down to HOBBY to tell them she was on the way. If she missed her flight, she wouldn't be able to pay for another ticket, so I decided to speed... eek! I said a prayer and started driving like 85/90 mph and got her there by 6:00am. I was so nervous for her I fidgeted for like 10 minutes until she called and said she was on the plane!!! When we were driving back from Austin two years later at 11:00pm and blew a tire in the middle of nowhere... we referenced this experience in our prayer for help and a strange white van with no windows showed up and two of the nicest guys jumped out and changed my tire and then drove away.
That is an awesome story! I'm just wondering how the police officer got the wallet in the first place? Did it fall off the top of the car? Wow. I vote for miracle.
There is no such thing as luck!! God only performs miracles!! Glad everything turned out okay!! And Happy belated Birthday Kim!!! I'm glad you had a memorable 30th with your sisters!!!
The moral of the story is: fill up your gas tank BEFORE the gas light comes on!
miracle for sure! I love those times when you can just tell someone is looking out for you!
Miracle! Happy Late B-day Kim. What a fun time. Blessings, blessings, blessings! Love you guys.
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