Reba called me Friday, at work, to drive over to her office because she thought her tire on the back passenger side looked low. Aside from being a tremendously good cautionary tale about making sure your daughters grow up knowing something about cars, the visit didn't tell that much. Possibly because I only did a drive-by, because I was quite busy at the time. But in any case, I drove by, and both the rear tires looked exactly like tires, at least from the driver's seat of the van.
Fast-forward to Saturday morning, where I was called upon to perform a quick visit to the grocery store to pick up something, and when I came back out, the sunlight was hitting the back passenger side tire in just the right way, and WHOA! She's driven the tread off of them! Part of this is that these were the tires that had been on the front before I got those changed out, but still, I sure didn't remember them being in THAT bad of a shape. But they were.
Got home and unloaded and then headed up to Sam's Club, waited an hour and a half, and then lightened my burden of filthy lucre by $108.
::sigh::
At least Sam's on a Saturday morning is a very interesting place...
Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 10, 2006 09:20 AMBefore you go bemoaning your tire purchases, you should go see my post from the weekend. I put tires, 4 of them, on my truck on Saturday...
Has anybody heard from that Larry A. guy lately?
Posted by: Nate at July 10, 2006 09:26 AMI know, I know--I'm actually not too put out by it, considering how much wear we got out of them. One of the benefits of driving a smaller car is that they have little bitty doughnuts.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at July 10, 2006 09:55 AMBack when I could get out of the house and do things like drive, I would try and get tires on Tuesday morning. They will let you in for tires with all the “business” card holders. No body is in the tire place and you barely have time to get one of the sweet pretzels.
Of course you need a job that will allow you to roam Sam’s on Tuesday morning.
Which is a job I don't have. Yet.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at July 11, 2006 07:56 AM