…I just think about my neighbor. He has an old Buick Century (basically the same as my car) and it’s had a flat tire for I don’t know how long. Well, ever since he moved in really. He used to air it up once a day. But eventually that got to be too much for him. And for at least the last three months, the car hasn’t moved an inch.
SOMEHOW in the process of just sitting there… ANOTHER tire went flat. (With tires you get what you pay for I guess.) So here sits this car, which is otherwise in decent shape, I’ve seen it drive at least, just parked in the parking outside my building.
Now I myself have picked up two used tires from a salvage yard for the bank breaking price of $35 dollars. Does my neighbor take this route? Why no. Instead, he jacks up one of the flat tires, so it’s not sitting on the rim. (Although the other tire still is, so I miss the point.) And two weeks go by. Then I notice he’s put the spare tire on the one flat, and has now jacked up the other flat tire. Another week and a half goes by, which brings us to today.
I notice that he has a whole new rim with what appears to be a fully inflated tire on the rim, propped up against the car, which is still jacked up with the flat tire, still on the car.
It’s my assumption that all this car needs is tires that will hold air. Now either this guy makes $0.25 cents a day and can’t afford even used tires, or he has something against doing more than five minutes of work a day. That or he’s going for the world record longest time to change two tires.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Leave a note on his windshield, tell ‘im I’ll pay $50 for the auto…as it is. Then go to the salvage yd and put a hold on 4 tires. What the hey, I’d go all out and put new rubber on the ground (well, used rubber.)