Had my day all planned out.   run some errands  come back and help out with our Friday markets over at the Expo-connector where our paid vendors sell their products. Mostly offering good deals.  Make a tuna casserole for dinnner  and finally get this room cleaned up. I’m almost there with straightening up this room.

So I start up the road and hear this noise like snow tires. Oh oh, that isn’t right.  So I stop and get out.  I have a flat tire.  Not going flat but completely flat.   How in the world did I walk right by it to get in thecar and not see it?   So called the driving club we use.  Will take them an hour to get here.     Traffic is really bad.  Took him about an hour and 10 min.  then about another 25 min to change the tire as we had to keep the car in the garage and there wasn’t much room for him to work.  Driveway is on a hill and not a good idea to jack the car up on a hill.

Tire has a big screw in it  and a little nail.   He says it was the screw.  I probably picked it up at the post office where they are widening the road and have messed up the parking lot royally.  Won’t be going back to that post office.  We have a nice little store across from Walmart that does all the mail,  ups , usps and fed ex.  I’ll be using them, no lines and they are nice.

So i go to the tire shop where we bought the tires last year.  Took them 3 hours to patch the tire, rotate them and do an oil change.

Finally I got to run my errands and made it home about 5pm.  So there went any inside work I was going to do today.

So we get home yesterday afternoon and the tire is turned just right.   There’s something shiny in the tire.

Darn, it’s nail  brand new and shiny  but looks like a screw top.  So called the tire place today and they said bring it in.  2 1/2 hrs later I’m on my way back home.  No charge, no problems  just took the nail out.

Cars.  Gotta have one but they sure take a lot of maintenance and time.

 

A week ago I was backing out of a parking space at the same time someone in a SUV was backing out on the other side.  We bumped each other.  Of course her big SUV only got some of my paint.  NO dents, no scrapes.

However my mid size car caught the brunt of it.  What I first thought was just a broken taillight resulted in most of the backend being replaced.

Today  we went to turn in the rental car and pick the car up.   They were only supposed to take 2-3 days, it wound up being 4.  When they couldn’t make the taillight fit in they found more damage.

The car looks good.  Can’t even tellanything happened.  But I can only imagine if that little bump resulted in over $1300 worth of damage what if I had been out on the road?  Would the car have been totaled?    Makes me more cautious than ever.