Flying to the rescue
A lot of men don’t know what to do when they’re confronted by a weeping woman, but Adan Venzor was quick to react. He reached out to his friend, Salvador Gonzalez, “the most honorable and noble man I know,” Venzor said, and the two quickly resolved the woman’s problem beyond her wildest expectations.
It all began about two weeks ago, Venzor related, when Stephanie Escobar called him, crying. The Denver woman had been driving to Houston for a family emergency when her car died – completely. Venzor, owner of Advanced Auto Repair, immediately responded.
“It was a mess,” he said. “She’d stopped at a quick-oil change place that morning, and they had also changed out her spark plugs. But they’d used the wrong size spark plugs, and they broke off into her cylinders by the time she got to Dalhart, which ruined her engine.
“She was rushing to get to Houston because her baby brother had been riding a motorcycle and been hit by a semi-truck and airlifted to the hospital there. The whole family was gathered there and they didn’t know if he was going to make it. So she was broken down here and just stuck and didn’t know what to do. This was early in the morning, and she was crying her eyes out.” He added that Stephanie was young, in her 20’s, and that she was a caseworker for Child Protective Services.
Venzor is a problem-solver and a people person, he said, and he knew that he had to help somehow.
“I rent my shop from Salvador, and he owns MAS Trailers. I called him and explained the situation and said, ‘Hey, do you want to go in together and buy her an airline ticket to Houston?’ He said to give him a minute and he’d call me right back. When he did call, he said, ‘Just bring her to the airport and we’ll fly her to Houston in my plane.’ So that’s what we did.’”
With Salvador at the controls and Stephanie, Adan, his fiancée Yana Drachuk, son Adan Jr., and B.J., an accompanying friend who’s last name was unknown, all onboard, the plane took off right at 8:00 a.m., landed at Hobby Airport, about 10 minutes from the hospital, and was back in Dalhart by noon.
“Stephanie called and said that her brother had come out of the coma and opened his eyes, so she made it in time.” Adan said.
He’s now in the process of repairing her car’s engine, which he said will be a major job.
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