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Hamilton Towing Company Replaces A Football After Driving It Over

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Tyrone Ward
Hamilton Towing Company Replaces A Football After Driving It Over

As promised, I have a few miraculous stories from my recent trip to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and here is one of them! A story about a group of burly tow truck operators having sweet hearts is a miracle to me, especially as all the towing operators in Vancouver are mostly pricks who would keep driving and pay no heed if they ran over a kid’s ball. But not the ones in Hamilton. This story brought tears to my eyes and I don’t think no amount of writing could ever give it justice. You would really have to be there to see the look on the kids’ faces and how kind the tow truck drivers were when they came back from the sports store with a brand new football. So here’s the story from start to finish.

Part One: The Football Goes Over the Fence

Before the game, us Vancouver people were practicing in a field, tossing the old pigskin around and getting pumped up for the game tomorrow. One of our best throwers was passing high when the ball went over the fence and flew onto the road. It just so happened that a tow truck was cruising down that very road in the precise timing to flatten the ball and everyone in that park heard the pop! After we and heard it none of ever thought we’d be getting the football back, and we also realized how unprepared we were because THAT WAS OUR ONLY FOOTBALL!

Part Two: We Mope Around At Loss of What To Do

After the tow truck was long gone, we all huddled at the center of the field, and someone cracked the joke, “I hope the Hamilton boys remember to bring a ball!” One of the staff said, “No worries. I’ll go buy another one right now.” Either way, there was no way we were going to mope around for too long. We came to Hamilton to play a football game and that was what we were going to do.

Part Three: Tow Truck Returns and Puts Smiles on All the Kids’ Faces

Just when were were slinging our bags over our shoulders and heading out to the parking lot where the school bus was parked, we heard a rumbling and turned the see the selfsame tow truck rolling into the parking lot behind us. One student who was just entering the bus turned around and we all stared for a moment. When the truck stopped beside us, we read the towing company’s business name. They said they drive the nicest tow truck Hamilton has to sport. I could not agree more and as soon as we saw their door open and the football in their hands, all the kids jumped up and down and laughed. The operator threw it to the same kid who had thrown it over the fence, perhaps by coincidence and then before we knew it we were back on the field practicing again. I got the company’s business card and will make sure to choose them if I ever need roadside assistance in that part of Ontario. If this were to happen in Vancouver, I can already assure you that we would never see another football again that day unless we went and bought it ourselves.

The End

So, it’s probably no sad story to make you cry but if you’re as sensitive as me you definitely would have cried if you saw the story happen in person. All the kids cheering and the tow truck driver sacrificing his own time to make us happy even though popping the ball wasn’t his fault was a beautiful moment I can only call a miracle, and that’s something I’ll never forget about Hamilton! Some of the kids will certainly be glad to read this story again and share it with their family. Even though we lost, we had a great time in Ontario and won’t regret the road trip.

Expect more stories like this from www.bcjuniorfootball.ca and have a great evening! Cheers!

 

Posted in StoryTagged A Nice Story About a Hamilton Towing Company

Delving Into Other Sports – Nothing Wrong With It

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Tyrone Ward
Delving Into Other Sports – Nothing Wrong With It

Tired of football? Or is the season over? You know, there’s nothing wrong with falling in love with other sports every now and then. As a mad football lover I felt guilty for years every time I went through a hockey or soccer binge. But now I know it’s normal. After all, there are hundreds of sports. There are even more if you want to include such things as skydiving, scuba-diving and cliff jumping as sports.

Here is a list of all the many sports I found myself binge-ing over when I was bored of football:

  1. Tennis
  2. Golf
  3. Boxing
  4. Dirt-biking
  5. Racing
  6. Hockey
  7. Soccer
  8. Frisbee golf
  9. Skying
  10. Snowboarding
  11. Lacrosse
  12. UFC
  13. WWE
  14. Field hockey
  15. Poker
  16. Fishing

Those, besides football, are my favorite. The only ones I practiced myself were hockey, soccer and tennis. The rest I love to watch on TV. So don’t feel bad next time you find yourself straying away from football for a while, especially if you know you’ll eventually come back to football because it’s your passion. So I hope that relieved some tensions. Just wanted to share. Thanks for reading.

Football is one of the best things in the world, but it isn’t everything, so don’t beat yourself up. After all, it isn’t your wife. It won’t get mad at you if you cheat on it. So go out there and explore. Have fun!

Posted in StoryTagged When You're Finally Tired of Football

Retired Football Coach Becomes Appliance Repair Mechanic

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Tyrone Ward
Retired Football Coach Becomes Appliance Repair Mechanic

By reading the headline of this post, you may think there’s nothing remarkable here. But this story is very remarkable. In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, there lives an old man. For identity security we’ll call him Jim. Jim is 76 years old today (happy late birthday, Jim!). And, yes, you read that right. Jim is 76. His story is remarkable because at this prime age he decided to come out of retirement because, in his words, “repairing appliances in Vancouver BC is so fun!”

I happened to meet Jim when he was repairing my dad’s broken washing machine and I loved his story so much I decided to post about it. Jim, for over 30 years, taught junior football for various middle schools across British Columbia. If you’re a big fan of local junior football, you may have even heard of him. Jim’s childhood dream was playing in the NFL but due to a minor bone disease he was at best only able to coach football. Jim says he has more energy than most 20-year-olds, and was only in retirement for three weeks before, as he put it, “craved something to do so bad he took up fixing the neighborhood’s appliances.” It only took about a month of this before he decided to submit a resume to work at the first appliance repair company in Vancouver BC that he could reach.

Jim still loves football, and he never misses a game for the team he used to coach. They have a new coach now. And even Jim admits the new one is better. He’s very proud of his team, but not as proud as his wife is of him for bringing home all that extra cash from fixing appliances. I think this story is a great motivational lesson for people like me who fear old age. Jim is a great example of staying young at heart. He plans to keep attending football games and repairing appliances right into his 90s if he can.

Today you can find Jim, under his real name of course, at one of Vancouver BC’s best appliance repair companies: http://www.werepairappliances.ca/

Jim is a great advocate of working hard, and I look up to him for that. Working for an appliance repair company may not be romantic or ideal for many, but Jim is very content. He’s satisfied with the life he’s lived and throughout British Columbia hundreds of young men remember him as their favorite football coach. I for one can vouch he’s a good man. And he’s very good at fixing appliances. It’s no wonder he chose this field. My dad’s washing machine works better than it did a year ago. But I doubt he’s better at fixing washers than he used to be at coaching football for minors. BC junior football owes a lot to this man. I’m very proud of him. My dad has become somewhat close friends with him as they have a lot in common. I for one hope I can have a friend like that when I’m in my 70s.

So thanks Jim. Thank you for being an inspiration and help to my family. You’re the man!

For my regular readers, let me know if you enjoy interesting stories like this. My plan for the future is to focus more on junior football, but if you like stories like this I have a lot more to share. Don’t forget to stay motivated and check back frequently for more posts and updates. Bye for now!

 

 

Posted in StoryTagged Becoming an Appliance Mechanic in Your 70s, How an Old Man Got Our of Retirement
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