“Dad! We’re stuck!”
We’d just walked out of the restaurant, and my son had climbed into the cab and started the truck to continue our road trip. But when he turned the engine over, he ran into a problem: the transmission wouldn’t shift out of park.
Fortunately, my wife was about 20 minutes behind us in her minivan, so we weren’t stranded for long. I called our insurance company to arrange for a tow truck, and when my wife arrived, we were back on our way.
Problem solved—or so I thought.
