No, no pig related accident.
It was a snowball or landslide sort of thing....
I knew that the old tires had finally gotten too slick to pass inspection - and inspection was coming up FAST... so I parked it for a couple of weeks till I could save up enough for new set all the way around (they're big, expensive tires!)... but one went flat sitting there (yep - they were THAT slick!)
Anyway, I got the cash for 4 new tires and went to change the flat one so I could drive to the tire place where they were waiting to mount & balance them... BUT, while the tire was off, I saw a hole in the exhaust that a small cat could have crawled up into!!!
WELL! THAT isn't going to pass inspection either! But I had 2 days to get the inspection and MAYBE.. just MAYBE the mechanic would have a temporary blindness episode and pass it....? So I started out of the driveway to head to the tire place - got to the end of my drive and rolled
right across the road and into the folks across the street's drive!!!
Apparently the brakes have failed too.
S L O W L Y turned around and crawled back home.
I called the tire place and told them that I was NOT going to be there to get the tires until I got brakes.
So... a new set of tires has turned into : New tires, new exhaust, brake line leak repair/replace ... and then to top it ALL off - I dropped my keys on the porch as I was heading out and GUESS which key slipped into the crack between the deck boards... yep.. the ignition key to the truck. WHICH I Promptly stepped on and snapped in half!
And since the only key I had was a replacement key anyway, there isn't any way that I can think of to cut a new one... so it looks like I'm going to have to have the ignition thingie replaced too.
AWLT
(Alex would LOVE this)
