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Dodie Gadient, a schoolteacher for thirteen years, decided to travel across
America and see the sights she had taught about. Traveling alone in a truck with
camper in tow, she launched out.
One afternoon rounding a curve on 1-5 near Sacramento in rush-hour traffic, a
water pump blew on her truck. She was tired, exasperated, scared, and alone. In
spite of the traffic jam she caused, no one seemed interested in helping.
Leaning up against the trailer, she prayed, "Please God, send me an angel ...
preferably one with mechanical experience." Within four minutes, a huge Harley
drove up, ridden by an enormous man sporting long, black hair, a beard, and
tattooed arms. With an incredible air of confidence, he jumped off and, without
even glancing at Dodie, went to work on the truck. Within another few minutes,
he flagged down a larger truck, attached a tow chain to the frame of the
disabled Chevy, and whisked the whole 56-foot rig off the freeway onto a side
street, where he calmly continued to work on the water pump.
The intimidated schoolteacher was too dumbfounded to talk. Especially when she
read the paralysing words on the back of his leather jacket: "Hell's
Angels-California." As he finished the task, she finally got up the courage to
say, "Thanks so much," and carry on a brief conversation.
Noticing her surprise at the whole ordeal, he looked her straight in the eye and
mumbled, "Don't judge a book by its cover. You may not know who you're talking
to." With that, he smiled, closed the hood of the truck, and straddled his
Harley. With a wave, he was gone as fast as he had appeared.
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