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Dear Boonville,
If you’ve got any good tutorials on changing a tire in icy conditions in a parking garage, Julie and I would welcome your input.
My poor wife. She called on Monday afternoon to tell me that the car she has been driving — one generously loaned to us by friends from church — had a flat tire.
Of course, that meant the errands she had planned would need to be put on hold.
The more pressing problem — have you guessed it? — was that the flat tire needed to be substituted with the spare.
Neither Julie nor I knew what to do next. Julie hadn’t changed a tire since her time in Girl Scouts years ago, and I hadn’t changed a tire in my life, period.
(Yes, you may laugh at — er, with — me.)
So we decided to call AAA to see whether one of its representatives would be able to help us resolve our dilemma.
Sure enough, they were.
As an aside, let me encourage folks whose parents sometimes offer advice to try something: Listen to them. Dad and Mom recommended that we purchase AAA coverage, and we were certainly grateful for it on Monday.
We then decided to give our friends a call and apprise them of the situation so that they could advise us on whether they would like us to get the tire replaced, to drive using the spare or to take another approach.
We are incredibly blessed with very generous friends. They let us borrow their car because they knew Julie had been traveling in the cold, either by scooter or by bus.
Monday’s events were unexpected, but they were bound to happen with one of our vehicles at some point. It’s a call to learn a little more so that we can be better prepared in the future.
I guess I’m going to be putting that auto repair book from Christmas to work.
Dear Boonville,
If you’ve got any good tutorials on changing a tire in icy conditions in a parking garage, Julie and I would welcome your input.
My poor wife. She called on Monday afternoon to tell me that the car she has been driving — one generously loaned to us by friends from church — had a flat tire.
Of course, that meant the errands she had planned would need to be put on hold.
The more pressing problem — have you guessed it? — was that the flat tire needed to be substituted with the spare.
Neither Julie nor I knew what to do next. Julie hadn’t changed a tire since her time in Girl Scouts years ago, and I hadn’t changed a tire in my life, period.
(Yes, you may laugh at — er, with — me.)
So we decided to call AAA to see whether one of its representatives would be able to help us resolve our dilemma.
Sure enough, they were.
As an aside, let me encourage folks whose parents sometimes offer advice to try something: Listen to them. Dad and Mom recommended that we purchase AAA coverage, and we were certainly grateful for it on Monday.
We then decided to give our friends a call and apprise them of the situation so that they could advise us on whether they would like us to get the tire replaced, to drive using the spare or to take another approach.
We are incredibly blessed with very generous friends. They let us borrow their car because they knew Julie had been traveling in the cold, either by scooter or by bus.
Monday’s events were unexpected, but they were bound to happen with one of our vehicles at some point. It’s a call to learn a little more so that we can be better prepared in the future.
I guess I’m going to be putting that auto repair book from Christmas to work.
