I am always early for shoots. I would rather be way early than 3 minutes late. When I have a shoot outside of NYC that I am driving to, I usually allow myself an extra hour for travel time. I have had people ask why I allow so much extra time. Well....that extra time saved me this week.
On Wed. I had a shoot in upstate NYC and allowed myself an extra hour and a half to get there. Good thing.
I woke up bright and early and headed to my car AND it wouldn't start. No apparent reason. The ticking sound lead me to believe it was either my battery or my starter or a combo of both (which is odd as I just had a new battery put in back in November.) So there I was sitting in my car on that cold morning wondering what I would do.
I called my friend Jessica, one of the few people that I know that also has a car here in the city. She actually answered the phone at that horrible hour and very graciously agreed to let me borrow her car. I grabbed my stuff and called a car service and headed to Queens to meet her.
Her car got me to the shoot with 20 minutes to spare! I had called the agent right away to let her know what what happening and I kept updating her during the drive, I thought I would be 15 minutes late.
and (ha ha) no I was not speeding.
Jessica - you are a life saver. Thank you so much for trusting me with your vehicle. I really appreciate it and hope you found the present I left for you.
The shoot went great and the clients never knew the panic I felt that morning.
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