Some Angels Drive Trucks

Marli Von Stutterheim of Mansfield, Massachusetts, never forgot the AAA “angel” who helped her over 40 years ago.

I have always been disabled and use a wheelchair. After visiting a relative in the hospital one evening, my car would not start. This was in the mid-1980s, and there were no cellphones.

After wheeling around in the cold icy streets, I was finally able to find a pay phone and called AAA.

The wonderful fellow who arrived could not get my car to start. But seeing my situation and the dismay in my face, he solved it by picking me up and putting me and then my wheelchair in the cab of his truck. He took me home and said that after work he would go back to get my car to start.

I never even learned his name, but in the morning, my car was parked in my usual spot in my building’s parking lot. I’m convinced that AAA only employs angels.”

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