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| Blown Tire | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 13 2007, 07:20 PM (275 Views) | |
| dolmansaxlil | May 13 2007, 07:20 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Well, THAT was exciting. Though I was shown how to change a tire when I was about 17, I've never done it. Tonight, going down the 401 at about 130km/h, my tire blew. And I mean BLEW. Luckily, there wasn't much traffic around me, cause I was sent careening to the other lane before I got safely pulled over. I had NO idea what I was doing. I called my dad, and his advice was, "You CAN change a tire. It's easy. But put a white cloth around your side mirror, open the hood, look pathetic, and someone will stop to help." I did as he said, watching truckers screaming by me, cursing the fact that I was wearing jeans and a tshirt rather than a short skirt and heels. I got out the instruction manual (yes, I'm such a girl). Seemed easy enough. I was just tightening the lugnuts on the spare when a guy stopped to help. He checked to make sure they were tight, told me, "you did good" in a thick jamaican accent, and I was on my way. So, another "I've never...." crossed off my list, and home safe and sound.
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| ivorythumper | May 13 2007, 07:27 PM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Glad you're ok -- a blow out at 80 is pretty damn scary!!!! Wow! |
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| CTPianotech | May 13 2007, 07:29 PM Post #3 |
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Fulla-Carp
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+ glad you didn't get hurt when the blowout happened!Sometimes the best time to learn something, is when you have to
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| kenny | May 13 2007, 07:54 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Nobody use a penis to change a tire. (I'll bet Larry will say he could.)
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| apple | May 13 2007, 07:55 PM Post #5 |
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one of the angels
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you know.. i'm good at changing tires.. i've had way too many old cars. once i stopped to help an elderly motorist.. changed his tire and he gave me 50 cents
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| CTPianotech | May 13 2007, 07:59 PM Post #6 |
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Fulla-Carp
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well then he'd better watch out for them new-fangled hubcaps! |
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| Mark | May 13 2007, 08:04 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Whew! Glad to hear you are OK! |
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| katie | May 13 2007, 08:55 PM Post #8 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Glad you were able to control your car with the blow out. You did well with the tire too. |
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| Red Rice | May 13 2007, 09:58 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Wow, glad your OK. Were your tires too old or worn out, or did you hit some debris on the road? |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| ny1911 | May 14 2007, 02:25 AM Post #10 |
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Senior Carp
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Get AAA! I've changed lots of tires, but I've also heard of a lot of fatalities for tire changers on interstates. It is tough to find a safe spot for a driver's side tire change. Glad you're OK. |
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| dolmansaxlil | May 14 2007, 02:26 AM Post #11 |
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I don't know what caused it. IIRC, I put new tires on it last spring, but I may be off on that. I don't think I hit anything though. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 14 2007, 02:28 AM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Dol! You da man! Way to take charge of the situation. I love capable women. |
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| Aqua Letifer | May 14 2007, 03:31 AM Post #13 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Good to hear it went smoothly Dol. ![]() My first time changing a tire, it was about 3am in the middle of frickin' NOWHERE (actually it was a lonely road that cut through a national forest). It was the perfect setup for some cheesy slasher movie. I've had 4 flat tires since then so now it's honestly no big deal. Experience is a great thing.
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| RosemaryTwo | May 14 2007, 04:19 AM Post #14 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Jeans and a T-shirt are fine. In law school I got a flat on a very busy section of road (before the entrance to the Fort Pitt tunnels, for those of you familiar with the 'burgh). I was wearing a bathing suit (on my way to go boating). I felt like a real jackass on the side of the road. For some reason, I didn't even throw a T-shirt in the car. Some highway official stopped and helped me change the darn thing.
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| JBryan | May 14 2007, 04:27 AM Post #15 |
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When I was working as head linesman on a seismograph crew in the West Texas desert many years ago I got three flats per day from the mesquite. At the end of three months there I could have worked in on a pit crew. I can change a flat almost before you know it. |
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| Frank_W | May 14 2007, 05:01 AM Post #16 |
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Way to go, Dol!! VERY cool!! Glad you weren't hurt. You ROCK!!
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| Jane D'Oh | May 14 2007, 05:24 AM Post #17 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Glad it all went smoothly Dol. My dad wouldn't let me on the road until I'd demonstrated that I could change a tire - but it's hard work IMO! Can you ask why it blew when you get it replaced? |
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| Axtremus | May 14 2007, 05:30 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yes, yes, very glad that Dol is OK, kudos with the tire change, etc. Dol and Jane, Perhaps you should demonstrate that you can wear mini-skirts and high heels... or bathing suits as RosemaryTwo did... post pictures so we can all help make sure you get it right! |
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+ glad you didn't get hurt when the blowout happened!




Glad you weren't hurt. You ROCK!! 
6:40 AM Jul 11