Today was a big day. I was going to teach tonight's class without a follower assisting, and it's gonna be a big class, and the new cafe annex the class will be in is halfway under construction. So I just needed to finish my delivery run, get home, get showered, pack the gear and get to the venue.
I returned to the van in downtown Leura to find my rear tyre was flat. This is my fifth flat tyre on the job so I knew the drill. First task is to loosen the nuts. I slipped the cross-wrench on to the first nut and twisted. It wouldn't budge, not surprising actually, so I tried stepping on the wrench to give my full weight getting maximum torque. Usually this works.
I was stumped and pulled out my phone to call for help. At this time a bystander, a courier from another company, offered to help.
So I said, thanks sure go for it, and this young fella in matching hi-vis grabbed the cross-wrench and twisted. We heard the nut creak and then turn. I said wow, that's great, could you maybe just loosen them all for me and I can manage the rest. Pretty please. The strapping lad obliged, and when he got all 5 nuts loosened, I shook his hand, thanked him.
The universe sent me an angel to get me past an obstacle. Thank you.
Later tonight, we set a new record for the largest class I've ever had in Katoomba at 22 students. There was a reason I got assigned an angel today, all these people were relying on me making it to class !
