Thursday, January 15th, 2004
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Cars are fun…
Posted by Thomas on 15 Jan 2004 | Tagged as: General Ramblings
Well, I’m stupid when it comes to cars. Real stupid. Well, I do know where the window washer blue-stuff goes. But other than that.
So I come out from the store after running some errands and discover a flat tire. Fun stuff. Putting on my best “I-can-do-this!” face, I get out the jack and tools, and proceed to jack up the car and loosen the lug-nuts. So problem #1, one lug-nut is quite tight, so tight, in fact, that it won’t budge. Fun.
Okay, I decide, I’ll get out the spare tire and worry about that for a minute. On a 91 Toyota pickup, you have to use a wench to lower it from the back. After spending a few minutes trying to figure out how the three pieces turn into a wench, I think I got it. It doesn’t turn. Crap. Ah ha! One of the parts of the wench has a screw sticking out of the side. I think this makes it turn, and lowers the tire. Whoops. The screw falls out. Into the spare tire. So now I’m minus a screw, and still have one lug-nut left. This isn’t going well.
Decide to cut my loss, and track down an air pump. A mile walk to Checker, and I have the pump. A mile walk back, and I have a nice sunburn. (It’s 80 degrees today!)
Got the tire filled enough to drive home, and that’s where it now sits. Looks like a cut in the sidewall of the tire, so we’ll have to buy a new one. Oh well. At least I worked on my tan, eh?
Just for fun: Inside iTunes, Type Arnold Schwarzenegger into the iTunes Music Store search. Listen. Be scared. Very scared.