“PROTECT MY FAMILY” An ATTA-BOY Story

It’s not everyday that you meet a guardian angel. Someone who just shows up and helps unexpectedly right when you need it most.

Yet this is exactly what happened to Aimee Theisen while driving home to Baton Rouge, Louisiana from Houston with her 2 young nieces. They were making their way home from the Taylor Swift concert which they had gone to see the night before, when they unexpectedly hit a pothole that had formed at a seam in the construction zone on I-10 near Beaumont, causing an immediate blowout. Fortunately they were able to make it safely off the interstate to the Ben J. Rogers Visitors Center, before the tire went completely flat.

Aimee recounted the following in a letter. “I’m small, but pretty self-sufficient, I can change a tire, easily. Except that this particular Saturday morning just before 11am, I could not for the life of me crack the dang lugs to get the tire off. With all our bags pulled out of the trunk and scattered around, 2 young girls becoming antsy, me beginning to worry (and trying to hide it from them), one of your employees showed up out of nowhere and changed my flat tire. I keep comparing it to the cornfield scenes in Field of

Dreams …, he appeared from seemingly nowhere and left in the same fashion. I never saw him coming or going – he was just there – exactly when we needed him.”

She further explained that she only had a few $1 bills, but that he would not accept them. “I was able to track down project info on the TX DOT project tracker. One of my nieces snapped a quick pic of him working on the tire (for Instagram, go figure) and the logo on his safety vest matches the JOHNSON BROS. CORPORATION, A SOUTHLAND COMPANY logo from the website. That logo… “PROTECT MY FAMILY”… wow. I get emotional thinking about the endless possible outcomes of that day, of that single event. But this man, your selfless employee, protected my family. He saved us. And I’m so thankful.”

This selfless and caring man was our very own Javier Garza , whom we commend and thank. It is this type of behavior that epitomizes the “Protect My Family” ethos.