Re: Quitting my job today
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:20 am
Yep. My driving is almost exclusively filed under “suburban dad.” The most treacherous conditions I tend to face are February/March potholes.
Yep. My driving is almost exclusively filed under “suburban dad.” The most treacherous conditions I tend to face are February/March potholes.
So, no Sand Hollow wall climbs?jfish26 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:20 amYep. My driving is almost exclusively filed under “suburban dad.” The most treacherous conditions I tend to face are February/March potholes.
Outside of Jeeping (please don’t ask), I haven’t had a flat in probably 20 yearsShirley wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:59 pm My first car, a 53 Chevy station wagon, cost me $25. I bought it from a friend 2 weeks before I turned 16 and parked it in my driveway. The morning I turned 16 I woke up and one of the tires was flat. I jacked the car up, rolled the tire to the Phillips 66 at the end of the block, (don't remember why I didn't go to the Texaco on the other corner), and paid $5 for another bald tire which I rolled the ½ block home and installed. I was in business!
The next day I had two more flat tires and repeated the above scenario twice more. ""You're going to run me out of used 15" tires at this rate", the owner of the station said. I thought to myself, but didn't say, "well, then I'll go to the Texaco across the street and see if he has any".
First two days I was 16 I had 3 flat tires I replaced with used tires for $15.00. I wonder if it was an omen?
it really is, I don't even like the way they look.
And the increased number of kids whose worry-wart parents got them a AAA membership to call someone if their car ever broke down, removing the need for them to practice changing a flat so they know how to do it "just in case".jfish26 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:12 amProbably has to do with the relative infrequency of flats today compared to our youth; I haven’t had one on which to even dad-lesson a kid.TDub wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:08 amwhy do so many kids now, not know how to change tires?Overlander wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:06 pm I didn’t want him to pay for the tires.
I told him the repayment would be to help someone he finds in a similar situation.
I ran in to wash my hands, and when I came out, there was $150 under my windshield wiper.
Good kid.
I also taught him how to change his first tire.
Having an exhaust jack and cordless impact were luxuries he probably won’t see again!
I have had two tire blowouts on the Interstate, the last while travelling with my baby in the car. That one was stressful for sure.Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:59 pm My first car, a 53 Chevy station wagon, cost me $25. I bought it from a friend 2 weeks before I turned 16 and parked it in my driveway. The morning I turned 16 I woke up and one of the tires was flat. I jacked the car up, rolled the tire to the Phillips 66 at the end of the block, (don't remember why I didn't go to the Texaco on the other corner), and paid $5 for another bald tire which I rolled the ½ block home and installed. I was in business!
The next day I had two more flat tires and repeated the above scenario twice more. ""You're going to run me out of used 15" tires at this rate", the owner of the station said. I thought to myself, but didn't say, "well, then I'll go to the Texaco across the street and see if he has any".
First two days I was 16 I had 3 flat tires I replaced with used tires for $15.00. I wonder if it was an omen?
Just another brick in the wall separating kids from self-sufficiency and a developed ability to figure things out for their damn selves. It's a huge problem, and contributing in a major way to the ineffectual stasis that defines a whole lot of adults.
Yikes! That would be stressful.twocoach wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:37 amI have had two tire blowouts on the Interstate, the last while travelling with my baby in the car. That one was stressful for sure.Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:59 pm My first car, a 53 Chevy station wagon, cost me $25. I bought it from a friend 2 weeks before I turned 16 and parked it in my driveway. The morning I turned 16 I woke up and one of the tires was flat. I jacked the car up, rolled the tire to the Phillips 66 at the end of the block, (don't remember why I didn't go to the Texaco on the other corner), and paid $5 for another bald tire which I rolled the ½ block home and installed. I was in business!
The next day I had two more flat tires and repeated the above scenario twice more. ""You're going to run me out of used 15" tires at this rate", the owner of the station said. I thought to myself, but didn't say, "well, then I'll go to the Texaco across the street and see if he has any".
First two days I was 16 I had 3 flat tires I replaced with used tires for $15.00. I wonder if it was an omen?
Rich folksShirley wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:25 amYikes! That would be stressful.twocoach wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:37 amI have had two tire blowouts on the Interstate, the last while travelling with my baby in the car. That one was stressful for sure.Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:59 pm My first car, a 53 Chevy station wagon, cost me $25. I bought it from a friend 2 weeks before I turned 16 and parked it in my driveway. The morning I turned 16 I woke up and one of the tires was flat. I jacked the car up, rolled the tire to the Phillips 66 at the end of the block, (don't remember why I didn't go to the Texaco on the other corner), and paid $5 for another bald tire which I rolled the ½ block home and installed. I was in business!
The next day I had two more flat tires and repeated the above scenario twice more. ""You're going to run me out of used 15" tires at this rate", the owner of the station said. I thought to myself, but didn't say, "well, then I'll go to the Texaco across the street and see if he has any".
First two days I was 16 I had 3 flat tires I replaced with used tires for $15.00. I wonder if it was an omen?
BTW, the $5 I paid for the used tire included the filling station owner mounting it on the wheel and balancing it.
Not bad.