Ford ‘Fishing’ Story
Now, at the risk of straining great communication, we share a whopper of a tale that harkens back to Christensen’s love for his family and old cars (remember, he doesn’t like to discard old technology, just because it has aged.) Understandably, Christensen has been busy since starting at Vita. When asked what he likes to do in his downtime, he jokes, “Lay face down on the carpet and recover.” In actuality, he really likes taking advantage of the majestic Colorado outdoors with his family that includes two teens who’ll be leaving the home nest in a couple of years. (A semi- scheduled departure that has Christensen spending as much time as possible with his soon-to-be fledglings.) In addition to snow skiing, Christensen and his wife cruise weekends in their 1951 Ford convertible named “Betty” after Christensen’s late grandmother. Here’s the backstory that Christensen swears is hand-on-Bible true:
“In the year 2021 my dad and I were casually spending a Saturday morning, leisurely looking around a Denver collector-car lot when we came across a car very similar to the one he had sold 20 years earlier in his home state of Nebraska. I used to drive my wife in that car when we began dating, but it was a different color. The dealer’s eyes got wide when we told him the color of our old car; he ran to his office and then came out with a photo of the car taken before it was repainted. It looked exactly like our car, but I remarked that we couldn’t be sure without the maintenance manual that was missing from the glove compartment. Again the dealer went inside his office and came back with the old manual that contained our handwriting. He even produced my dad’s old “Route 66” keychain that had been found in the car. That car had traveled from Nebraska down to Texas then to Durango, Colorado, and finally to the Denver lot
where we just happened to come across it. I told the dealer, “I have to buy back our car. You got me, but just don’t kill me.”
Another shopper had a first option to buy the car, but he declined because the blinker didn’t work. Because of a $4 replacement part, Christensen gladly bought the old Ford and brought a smile to his wife’s face when he drove home the convertible in which he courted her.
From selling Vita Inclinata’s lifesaving products through teamwork, to buying his family’s Ford, Christensen’s quest for meaningfulness seems on the right road.
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