Paul Harris, 20, felt fortunate to have a job working as a roughneck, drilling, laying, and digging up pipe for water wells. He wasn’t thrilled about the job, but at least it supported his destructive habits. Until one day. “It started out like any other day, but this day changed my life forever—looking back, I see that it was one miraculous event after another,” said Harris, now 52. After retrieving and loading 800 feet of pipe onto a 1965 GMC, Harris’s workmate and driver, Dave, decided to get some well-deserved refreshments at a nearby gas station—that’s when their vehicle started to fail. “Dave is pumping the brakes, downshifting and we were still not stopping,” Harris said. He then grabbed the emergency brake, stopping inches away from a parked tractor-trailer. Immediately, they called their boss to report the problem. Showing up with brake fluid, the boss assured them everything would be OK …
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