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Aug. 6th, 2004 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandySo now I have something to do on Sunday! Hooray!
Coming down the A666 into Bolton I noticed Raj was pulling insistently towards the left. "Hello!" thought I, "Mayhap the little chap's trying to tell me something! Is Timmy stuck down a well?" Then I remembered that Raj is not in fact self-aware, and there was likely a problem with one of the tyre. So I stopped, and checked, and indeed, tyre was flat.
Now I could have changed it myself, but I probably would have done it badly, and I was in the Asda carpark and needed to do some shopping anyway, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to use the crappy slimline space-saver spare wheel that I have, so I rang the AA. Before I could ask them for local tyre places that would be open at 6:30pm (I'm guessing none, but worth asking), they insisted on sending me a man.
Hee.
The man arrived and changed the wheel, and exclaimed that I had certainly got my money's worth sir! This tyre needs replacing, not repairing. I asked him to check the others, and apparently two more are dead and one other is on the way. I made my way home to Stretford gingerly, trying not to exceed 50 umph, cars piling up behind me (once they were behind me they couldn't pull out because everyone was overtaking them). Man alive, those parts of the motorway where you pull out because the left lane is peeling off were so embarassing.
So on Sunday I'm going to buy tyres (tomorrow is wedding). Kwik Fit claim to be open 7 days and are doing a 4-for-cheap deal at the moment, apparently, so they will be my first stop.
The end.
Coming down the A666 into Bolton I noticed Raj was pulling insistently towards the left. "Hello!" thought I, "Mayhap the little chap's trying to tell me something! Is Timmy stuck down a well?" Then I remembered that Raj is not in fact self-aware, and there was likely a problem with one of the tyre. So I stopped, and checked, and indeed, tyre was flat.
Now I could have changed it myself, but I probably would have done it badly, and I was in the Asda carpark and needed to do some shopping anyway, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't have to use the crappy slimline space-saver spare wheel that I have, so I rang the AA. Before I could ask them for local tyre places that would be open at 6:30pm (I'm guessing none, but worth asking), they insisted on sending me a man.
Hee.
The man arrived and changed the wheel, and exclaimed that I had certainly got my money's worth sir! This tyre needs replacing, not repairing. I asked him to check the others, and apparently two more are dead and one other is on the way. I made my way home to Stretford gingerly, trying not to exceed 50 umph, cars piling up behind me (once they were behind me they couldn't pull out because everyone was overtaking them). Man alive, those parts of the motorway where you pull out because the left lane is peeling off were so embarassing.
So on Sunday I'm going to buy tyres (tomorrow is wedding). Kwik Fit claim to be open 7 days and are doing a 4-for-cheap deal at the moment, apparently, so they will be my first stop.
The end.
Re: tyring
Date: 2004-08-09 05:16 am (UTC)