I have a lot of bad luck when it comes to tires on my cars. Usually when people get a flat, it’s something that is nice and easy to get fixed. There’s no spending hours in the tire store waiting for some obscure part to arrive. There’s no buying of new tires. It’s just easy. The hole gets patched and then, 20 minutes later, the person is on their merry way again. This is apparently a fairy tale. I don’t believe in cheap flat tires any more than I believe in witches that live in gingerbread houses and eat German children. Mmmmm… gingerbread.
You may remember the tale of the last time that I had a flat tire. It was a simple fix that turned into a mult-hour, multi-dollar ordeal. My car is a target for debris of the puncturing kind. It’s been about three months so I guess that it’s time to go through it all again. Fortunately, this time it wasn’t as bad as last time.
Last night at 11:00 I was playing poker on my computer when all of a sudden, Holly called me. She said that a tire was flat and that she was stuck on the freeway in Kaysville. She was able to give me her exact location before her phone battery died. I grabbed a flashlight and jumped in the van to go rescue my stranded wife.
I found her, after having driven to Farmington so that I could travel the correct direction on the freeway, and was able to get the spare on the car in only a few minutes time. I looked at the tire and thought that I saw where the hole was and got very excited because for once, it wasn’t in the sidewall. We made it home without incident.
Today I took the car to Walmart to get the tire fixed. I was only looking at Star Wars toys for a few minutes when I got called back to the automotive department to “answer a question”. The question that was posed wasn’t really a question at all. It was a “your tire has a hole in the sidewall and can’t be fixed” type of comment. DOH! Yet another sidewall. I have never had a normal flat; they’re all in the sidewall. This of course means that I buy new tires about every three months. The tire in question still had the rubber “spikes” on it that new tires come with. I’m so unlucky! I hoped that Walmart would cover it under some sort of warranty but they didn’t so I ended up buying yet another new tire.
I’ve been told that when you replace one tire, you’re supposed to replace the tire on the other side as well so that they wear evenly. I’ve given that up. I have new tires on my car and they all wear out the same. New or old, I know that I’ll replace each one of them at least once a year. Maybe I should invest in some tire stock.
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Man that’s no fun…I think it’s time to apologize to whom ever you have angered and offer a peace offering such as Gingerbread. I’ll take some too, while your at it, I think I deserve it after such great advice!