"Diesel Mechanic"

It dawned on me after I made the last post that a lot of you aren't familiar with my reference to Jan as the diesel mechanic.  It goes back to the motorhome we had before our Navigator, a 2000 Safari Continental, or the motorhome from hell.  Unfortunately we ignored a few subtle hints when we bought it and ended up with tons and tons of trouble.  For the first couple years until Monaco finally fixed it once and for all, each time we took it out we would have at least 5 things go wrong each day!  Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much.  We had an intermittent air leaks on several fittings way, way under the coach, no way I could get in there so Jan would shimmy in, pull the offensive line out and reinsert it and off we'd go.  Now that isn't to imply that was the only problem that she took care of underneath the coach, oh no.
I'll give you an example of one of our mornings.  We traveled for many years with Jan's parents, Vern and Viv, and very good friends, Ray and April.  We were on our way west and had stopped in Medora, ND so we could visit Teddy Roosevelt National Park.  We were all getting ready to go when the 5th wheel next to us started to pull out.  Well, catastrophe struck, the mount on the 5th broke off, and the 5th fell right down on the pickup truck smashing the 5th and the truck and scaring all of us, most of all the 5th people.  We ran over to help, but of course there was nothing we could do.  No way to lift it up without some heavy equipment.  So Vern, Ray, and I all fire up, and as our coach builds up its air suspension we roll more and more to one side as if we are going to roll over!  Now Vern and Ray have no idea so they pull out of their sites and start to hook up their toads.  Meanwhile Jan and I are wondering if we are going to roll all the way over.  So the intrepid diesel mechanic slides underneath finds the loose air connection and reinserts it and we roll level and off we go, only to see Ray and April come running out of their motorhome to release the parking brake they had left on when hooking up.  We could always be sure there were many surprises and events when we all traveled together.  Sure do miss those times now!  And off the fearless threesome went.