Posted on 09/14/2008 7:52:58 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
A couple of miles from the house, the Whites had their own mini-disaster. A tire blew on the Mercury. Bill, luckily, managed to nurse his wounded ride off the street and into the lighted parking lot of a strip mall.
Bill became a bit woozy himself when he discovered his jack was malfunctioning. Never a good thing at midnight.
Plan B kicked in, however. One of those cigarette-lighter-plug-in air compressors was available. Except it was leaking more air than it was pumping.
"I don't know, a hundred cars, probably more, had to go by. Nobody was stopping," said Bill. "That's just kind of the way it is in today's world."
And then ...
"Bill was fooling with that tire, and I was standing beside the car watching him," Sharon said. "The next thing I know, a nice-looking young man, very well-dressed, but with something strange on his chin, he walked up, smiled, and said, 'Hey, you need some help?' "
Sharon, took a second look. "You are Tony Romo," she said. No reply, just a smile, and then it was back to work on the compressor.
"I didn't want to bother him," Sharon said, "but I asked again, 'You're Tony Romo, right?' " I knew it was him by then. But he smiled and said, 'Yes, ma'am.' "
"Look, we're driving a 10-year old car that is sitting in a parking lot with a flat tire in the dead of night. He could tell by that we're nothing special. But here's a young man making millions of dollars, and he's got all this fame and glory, and he does this?"
(An e-mail from Sharon alerted me to Tony's good deed. No Cowboys official knew about it even by Wednesday.)
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
No wonder TO was moved to tears when Romo was criticized!
That’s a nice story.
It reminds me about a friend of mine who was a vendor at the old County Stadium when she was a teenager. There was a rainout and her mother wasn’t able to come and pick her up. As she sat in the rain, a car pulled up and Paul Molitor and his wife offered her a ride home.
Romo has class
bttt
Bumpin’ for a cool story!
If I’d have been Sharon, I prolly wouldn’t have even been able to speak until the tire was fixed and ToRo was back in his car and on his way, then I’d have screamed!
Go, Cowboys!!!!!
What a great story!
Thanks for posting !!
Perhaps the real America, the one buried by greed and perversion and political correctness is not dead but clawing it's way back to the front.
Tony Romo is one of the blessed among us, a hero to some and a curse to others (Eagle fans ;o))But at his core a good and decent person.
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