I took My Darling B out at dinner time last night and spent almost two hundred dollars!
The venue: Broadway Tire Sales.
The occasion: There was a screw in the left rear tire.
There was a nail in it, too, but I didn’t know that until the mechanic took the tire off the wheel to check it out. The screw was in the tread, but the nail was in the sidewall. They can patch the tread, but they can’t patch the sidewall, so what I thought was going to be a $18.00 patch job turned into an $89.99 tire replacement.
And it turned out I needed my oil changed, too. Well, it didn’t “turn out” that way. I’ve been putting off changing the oil for months, so I knew the oil needed changing. I just didn’t know the mechanic would know exactly how long I’ve been putting it off. Long time, “it turns out.” Well, he had it up on the rack anyway, so I said go for it.
Aaannnd the air filter had to be changed.
“Anything else?”
The mechanic shook his head. “Nope. That’s it.”
After parts and labor it came to something like $189.97.
Oh, and I spent $0.85 on a bag of Gardettos, which I shared with B.
This Is Drivel 