For those of you who’ve known me for years this is just another story… but for those who haven’t heard these crazy stories… this is just par for the course. I often have rather strange things happen in my world (like a homeless lady who was sleeping in the elevator in the parking garage at work. the door opened and she didn’t move – i thought she was dead and i started screaming! she woke up MAD and she started chasing me through the parking garage!) … well here is today’s crazy story … it has a good ending. But it all seemed very ominous as it was happening.

Yesterday morning driving to work I saw a tow truck parked on the side of the 56 freeway (on the opposite side of the freeway) with its hazard lights on and I could see there was someone sitting inside. But it looked like his head was hanging forward – like he was taking a nap in his truck at 5:30 am or something… I don’t know what he was doing – but I noticed he was sitting there.

Then when I left work yesterday afternoon I saw a tow truck, with someone sitting in it, in the exact same place on the freeway – no movement inside the truck… with its hazard lights on, etc. At that point I was slightly concerned, if my phone was working, I would have called CHP and asked someone to check on the truck driver to make sure he was OK. But alas, my cell phone is very dead currently. (And I was hoping the truck driver wasn’t dead also.)

So, fast forward to this morning – tow truck AGAIN in the same place on the freeway, with someone sitting in the cab, hazard lights on, etc…. and my heart started racing. Immediately I think to myself – “I HAVE to go check on him to see what’s going on here. But I don’t have a phone. If he’s not responsive I’m going to have to flag someone else down to stop and hope they have a cell phone so we can call for help.” In the meantime, I got off the freeway and back on to circle around and park behind him… I stopped with my lights on, lighting up the back of his truck.

My heart was racing.. And I was praying for this individual… and praying that I wouldn’t find a dead person in the cab of the truck.

Keep in mind… it’s 5:30 am and it’s still dark outside. I walk up to the door, looking for any movement inside the truck, and all of a sudden a head pops out!

Thank goodness he was making eye contact with me or I would have freaked out for sure! OK – he’s alive! I take a deep sigh and start laughing at him…. he looks confused. I explained to him the whole drama that was unfolding in my creative imagination and we had a good laugh together on the side of the freezing cold freeway at 5:30 am. He thanked me for stopping…

No this wasn’t a dream… this is just the world I live in…
As to WHY he was sitting there… looking back on it now, I don’t think it was the same tow truck or same guy sitting there the entire time. Maybe it’s just a place for tow companies to sit while they wait for service calls?! I don’t know… then again, it could have been the same guy… I didn’t ask. That’s his business…