Yesterday I had a flat tyre. My car kept beeping me about the tyre, fortunately, I could still travel, very nervously I might add, to the tyre repair place to have it sorted out. Turned out it had huge nail in it.
It was quite interesting watching them repair the tyre. I had no idea there was such helpful machinery for taking a tyre off the rim. I remember in the old days when men used to use crowbars to do this.
Anyway, I expected to see a tube inside the tyre. Silly me, right? It’s not a blooming bicycle, but then I suppose modern bicycles also don’t have tubes in them, or do they?
Being a potter and mould maker, I love tubes, because they are ideal for cutting up into bands to hold the “Plaster of Paris” molds together, rather than paying a fortune for a bag of bands…but I digress.
The thing is, they always say women should know how to change a tyre, which I know how to do in theory, but I’ll tell you, after what I observed yesterday, I would not be able to do it and I am most definitely not strong enough either.
So what are us ladies supposed to do? Maybe drive around with a muscular, scantily clad repair man in the back seat? But then he would require looking after and who has time for that. All I can say is thank goodness for places like the AA and other such organisations. From now on I think I’ll make full use of one of these services, and I shall no longer be an unreliable tyre person anymore.
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I especially like the bit when you say that a repair man in the back seat would ‘require looking after and who has time for that’. 🙂
LOL, I imagine myself having to stop to get him a pie and a coke 😉
Now why on earth would he be required to be ”scantily clad”.
You would be looking in the rear view mirror all the time and probably prang the car and I don’t care how good he is with a tire wrench he won’t be able to fix your car if you ”front -end” it!.
Naughty M. Behave.
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Hehehe…I am always well behaved 😀 😉
I am too much of a gentle man to cast aspersions your way.
My tongue is now sore from biting it – your fault.
You make me laugh, you gentleman, you 😀
Thorry …my thoung’s thore…
you should really see someone about that lisp…
“Maybe drive around with a muscular, scantily clad repair man in the back seat? But then he would require looking after and who has time for that.”
This is hilarious beyond anything. I wouldn’t want to be bothered with the looking after either.
Thank goodness for AA, indeed.
I wonder how nails manage to go into a tire as if it were hammered in. I had a huge one almost a year ago.
I am sometimes near a building site and I think that is where I got mine from 🙂
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I like the idea of “a muscular, scantily clad repair man in the back seat!” 🙂
I like the idea of a “a muscular, scantily clad repair man in the back seat!!”
hehe, thanks Dor 😉
How sexist of you! A scantily clad repair man would NOT necessarily require looking after!
You reckon? 😉