Norris Family Blog

Mower Pickup

We needed to go to Glasgow today to pickup the John Deere riding mower at the JD dealership. They had been doing a fall tune-up and fixing a front wheel bearing that had torn up. I had taken it over there last Thursday. We left home after talking with Brent and he was going to go to lunch with us. It was about 9 AM when we left and foggy. We decided to go the parkway as there would be less problems with traffic in the fog. We stopped for gas in Columbia and watched as 3 policemen had two women in a pickup truck stopped in the gas station lot. They were giving one of the women a sobriety test and she wasn't doing it correctly. He gave her two chances at walking a straight line and also had her stand on one foot with the other in the air. It was a problem. I finished pumping our gas and went in and paid. As I came back to the truck he had the women turn around and he was handcuffing her. She obviously didn't want to be arrested and wasn't going along with the procedure completely. He got her cuffed and placed in the back of his car as we drove off the lot and headed to the parkway.
I pulled into the JD dealers parking lot and went inside. The secretary for the service manager greeted me and started my checkout as I wrote the check. The service manager spoke to me saying, "You're going to be real happy with your mower." I asked why's that? He told me they had dropped my mower off of the lift and busted the hood on the front of it and replaced it with a brand new one. I said, "Really?" We went to look at it, and I couldn't believe it was my old mower. It looked like a new one. If the seat hadn't been torn, I would not have thought it was the same mower I took to them. It was hard to believe. They had cleaned the entire mower, wheels, tires, seat, everything looked like it was new except my seat. I finished paying while they loaded the mower in the back of the truck. Linda got out and looked at it when I told her what had happened. She thought it looked like a new one too.
After picking up the mower we headed to Edmonson County to meet Brent for lunch. I thought it would be a good trip and nice for Stacey to eat lunch with her brother. We let Brent show us the Laura's Hilltop Diner. The food was good and when we finished, we headed back to Brent's office at the school. Lamar came in and we talked with him and Brent for a while and then headed back to Burkesville. Linda suggested we stop at the Kawasaki dealer to get a tail light lens for one of our four wheeler that had been broke in a slight collision earlier in the year. So we stopped and ordered one.