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Breakdown

After I picked Jayden up from dance lessons, we got a bite to eat, groceries, then headed home. I was low on gas, however not too low. We were 3 miles from Ogden on Hwy 30 when the Tahoe quit on us. I pulled off to the side and there we sat. Jayden immediatley began crying and was very scared. I called Mark and then AAA. The AAA operator told us the service man from Boone would be there shortly and before 9. We waited and watched for him to come. I had Jayden calmed down, then our hazards and all interior lights went dead. Once again Jayden was in panic mode, crying and shaking. She gets very worked up in situations like that. I kept very calm, told her to pray and assured her we were fine. It was starting to get cold and I called AAA back. They told me to call 911 due to our hazards not working. So the sheriff was on his way too. We waited and waited and used a small book light whenever a car passed so they would see us and get into the other lane. We were just inches off the white line. It was not a safe place to be and cars were passing every 30 seconds. Then the snow plow inched near us and swerved at the last second. That brought Jayden into another panic attack. We had waited an hour and finally the sheriff came. We sat in the back of his car to stay warm and have lights. It was 13 degrees outside. The service man called and was just then leaving to come assist us. Ugh! I called Mark and told him to come get Jayden as it was just taking too long and I had a back end loaded with groceries. Karen had to come sit with the boys who were in bed so Mark could come. Finally the service man arrived. He tried a few things and determined it was a bad fuel pump and it turned out to be a bad battery on top of that. Mark came to our rescue and we were home after 10PM. Not a good night!

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