FRED & RED
FRED even met the girl of his dreams while four-wheelin’.
“One place we go every year is Moab, Utah, for the big Moab Easter Jeep Safari,” explained Fred. “I was on this trip two years ago and there was a girl who was working in the Jeep booth. I said, ‘Hey, we’re doing a night run tonight. Do you want to go along?’ and she and her sister both worked in the Jeep booth and they were like ‘Yeah, we’ll come.’
“So a bunch of us piled into Jeeps and headed out. I was leading the group and this girl Ashley was riding with me. We got halfway through the trail and it was really dark and one of the guys radioed to us and said ‘I’m runnin’ out of fuel, I gotta turn around’. So we turned the group around and headed back to town, but now I was at the back of the group.
“Then I heard a funny noise coming from my Jeep… the left front tyre has fallen off. So I’m out in the middle of the desert, I’ve got this girl with me who I hardly know, everybody else has ditched us. So we’re out there with this broken Jeep, no spare tyre, no jack, barely any tools and it’s getting dark.
“So I say ‘Here, hold this flashlight’, and I run the winch line up into a tree, winch the front-end off the ground, steal some lug nuts off of the other wheels, bolt the wheel back on with three lug nuts, and we start heading back into town. Eventually the rest of the group figures out we’re not there, so they turn around and come back, and when they get back to us the girl talks to her sister and then she ditches me, she gets in another vehicle and they leave.
“So I’m like, well, that goes to show, your Jeep breaks, the girls are gonna ditch ya. But it actually turned out for the better, because I spoke to that girl that night, and just about every night since then for the past two and a half years.”