I waited on a customer and his son yesterday at work. Sold them a water pump and whatnot for his son's first car, a Nissan Frontier truck. They came back several more times getting this and that.....the last time to rent a couple of tools to make sure they could get the harmonic balancer off as they were also replacing the timing belt.
As they left, something just told me to give them one of my personal business cards. I don't "run a business" per say, but I do try to help the occasional person out, so I gave them one.
This morning about 8:15, Father's Day, on my day off, I got a call from the dad saying he was really in over his head with the timing belt and he needed help timing the engine back up. Less than two miles from me in a straight line, so I went over there and timed it up, put the belt on and stuck around to make sure everything was fine.
We got done and he would have it no other way than to give me some money for helping. It turned out good. We got done about lunch time and he had the rest of Father's Day to relax.
It is 8:15 PM here and still have not heard from my own son. I am glad I helped make someone else's Father's Day nice, though.
