A "Christmas Story" Moment

Friday morning Paco was all set to head out to work when he discovered a very flat front tire. EJ was all excited to help his Daddy out so he put on some shoes with his jammies and headed out to the garage. Paco gave him the exciting and very important job of holding the tire cap and lug nut covers. When we saw EJ standing there holding those we both instantly thought of the scene from "A Christmas Story" in which Ralphie is helping his Dad change a flat tire in the snow. Unfortunately for Ralphie, he drops the lug nuts in the snow and utters a word that should not have come out of his mouth. Fortunately for us, neiter Paco nor EJ uttered any bad words throughout the removal of the flat tire. Paco did discover that the reason for the flat was the spring in the suspension of his car had broke and popped a hole in his tire. One tow to the repair shop and several hundred dollars later all is well with that lovely car.

The mechanics hard at work

Little "Ralphie" Sanchez

The boys hard at work