meganbmoore | (no subject)

Got flat tire on way home from errands. More specifically, the tread tore loose and flapped around while I was pulling over to investigate, but the tube stayed inflated, so I was getting "weird vibrations/sound," not "flat tire bounce." As I was on the frontage road to the highway, I decided to pull off into the nearest access road(about 20 yards.) Flapping tread stripped wires connected to the fuel system loose (we're talking about 1 1/2 ft of flapping tread, though I didn't know that yet) resulting in my car dying as I was turning.

In theory, I will have my car back sometime tomorrow.

In theory. They have to find out exactly what that did to the car, first. The tread also whacked the *hem* out of the car's body right around the area.

Amusingly, I came home to notifications from ebay that I won 2 auctions.

And to a message from

telophasethat what I am officially calling a Care Package of books was on the way. (Free books>>>Anything. Except free car repairs. Which I will not get.)

And now I will read and have milk and cookies while I decide whether I want to watch Hellboy or Onmyoji, or start Hansungbyulbok tonight.

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Yikes! I managed to rip tread off a tire once, but not to that extent. (Just to the extent that I brought it in because it was "driving funny" and the mechanic brought me into the work area, showed me the tire, and said "That's what we call a 2-mile tire: as in it's unsafe to drive over 2 miles an hour.")

The worst part is that if I'd just pulled over instead of trying to be considerate of my fellow motorists and get completely off the road, I probably would have just had a flat!

...so I was getting "weird vibrations...
Not "Good Vibrations"? |D *shot

Reminds me of something that happened with my mom and I. We had to push the car to the gas station (which was only several feet away, luckily).

Oh, that's not cool at all. I hope they're able to fix everything quickly and cheaply.

Recently, and for the first time, I made an appointment to purchase tires before they destroyed themselves in some fashion. I felt like such a grown-up!

Yeah, I've done that before. But in those cases, the tires actually gave evidence that they planned to die on me.

Mine would probably have died soon. Dad would mention it whenever we talked on the phone. :)