A funny thing happened yesterday

“I was driving down to one of my leases and had my left front tire blow out. It's hot up here near Globe these days, but I hadn't figured on the hubcap being so hot it nearly burned me. I think it was from the friction after the blow out, though.

I set the hubcap off to the side and started piling the lugnuts into it. It was slow going. I had let one of the lugs kind of rust weld itself to the nut on my old truck. I had just gotten that booger free when these kids in a chrysler lebaron convertible come over the hill and damn near hit me. They DID hit the hubcap I had lying three feet from me and then they spun out a little and pulled off to the side of the road. I was all five kinds of mad and went to tell them so.

Well the passenger (I guess it was the driver's little girlfriend) was sorry and shaken, but that damn boy didn't want to do anything but piss and moan about how I had left something in the road. I layed into him about driving like a moron and told him that if he hadn't tried to come so close to me, he never would have hit the hubcap.

While we were yelling at each other, the girl went around back of the car and I heard her say "oh no", so I went over to see what it was, and their tire was slowly going flat. The probably punctured it on my hubcap or one of the nuts.

I just decided to quit botherng with the boy and went back to finish changing my tire. About the time I was finishing, the girl walked back and said that the boy didn't have a jack in his car! I mentioned that that was a shame as I put my jack away. I offered her a ride into Mammoth, if she wanted it.

She went back and talked to her boyfriend and he started yelling at her, so she got hacked off and came back and said that yeah, she'd like a ride into town.

I dropped her at the post office so she could use the phone and she thanked me. She said she wasn't in any hurry to get someone out there to lend him a jack.

I drove on down to my lease and checked on things and fixed a pump that needed fixing. I was probably gone about two hours, but when I drove back, that boy's car was still there! I didn't see him around though.”

“hee hee hee
Guilty Pleasures...... ;-)”

“WOW.....glad they only hit your hubcap....!!!”

“hmm do unto others as they do unto you


lol i guess”

“Not that I doubt UltraPacker's tale, I don't, but how does one not have a jack in one's car? The friggin' car comes with one for Pete's sake! Did he take it out and forget to put it back in? Did the dealer steal it?

What frickin' moron that kid was.”

““Not that I doubt UltraPacker's tale, I don't, but how does one not have a jack in one's car? The friggin' car comes with one for Pete's sake! Did he take it out and forget to put it back in? Did the dealer steal it?

What frickin' moron that kid was.”
bitpusher
9:32:03 AM
6/30/05
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My first couple of cars I owned didn't have jacks in them. I ended up having to buy one from a junkyard for the first car. When that car died, I kept the jack and put it in the next one. I guess that's one disadvantage to not buying from a dealer.

As for the story, karma's a wonderful thing.”

“I guess every car I've ever owned had a jack. If I bought one that didn't, I'd go out and get something for it.

I also have a set of jumper cables in all my cars, too.”

“yep, I had a couple of cars as a teenager that didn't have jacks with them.

stupid kid, prolly told his gf, "watch this, I'll scare the #&%!$ outta that guy"...”

“so what have we learned from this thread?

when people treat you like crap, treat them like crap right back.


oh and always carry a jack.”

“I also have a set of jumper cables in all my cars, too.”
bitpusher
9:42:34 AM
6/30/05
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I do too. You'd be amazed by how many people that don't. Although I guess I could always pop start my car if I realy had to.”

“UP could at least have hit on the girl, too. lol...”

“No jacks are more common than you would think.
Lots of dumba$$s have no jacks.”

“I THINK there is a jack in my car!!!”

“LOL@div”

“Where are all these missing jacks?

Is there some evil mad scientist stealing the jacks out of cars and using them in his insidious plan to destroy the world?”

“You might want to visit this thread Div.

http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/39065,1.php”

“Good thing the kid didn't hit you with the car. Hopefully, he didn't get picked up by michael jackson!”

“div doesn't need to know how to change a tire.

She lives in the Deep South.

All she needs to do is pull over and smile sweetly. Within minutes, some guy in a four wheel drive will pull up and gladly change her tire for her.

He will have any jack parts she is missing.

LOL”

“i know how to change a tire but on the couple of occasions i had a flat, men pulled over tochange it for me :) never even had to get dirty! :D”

“i miss the old-fashioned jacks. the new ones can be a pain if youre on the slightest incline”

“Ahh the south.
If I got a flat, people would just drive on by.
My mom and I were road tripping in MT, near Billings when we got a flat. We no sooner had pulled to the side of the road, when a pickup and a sheriff deputy pulled over and changed the whole thing for us. Response time: 2 seconds! We were so amazed. That would never happen here...

As for having a jack and/or jumper cables. So many people have roadside assistance, whether through the purchase of their car, or AAA, that not many bother having those things on hand.”

“i had the opposite experience in montana. i was forced to do some hitchhiking and would sometimes go 2 hours before being picked up, while in the south it was always easy to hitch a ride”

“I live in the south.
My mom had a flat. Pulled over and called AAA. A few minutes later a truck pulled up behind her. She got out and they changed the tire. When she was getting ready to leave, the AAA truck pulled in. She thought the first truck was AAA. Instead it was just some nice young man (in the south).”

“I think pixie might just be a little prettier than you, Crash.”

“Calling AAA here means you sit around and wait 45 minutes to an hour minimum.”

““I think pixie might just be a little prettier than you, Crash.”
bitpusher

but i am pretty, right?”

“My grandmother had to wait more than an hour the other day. My mother finally got fed up with it and called me. Of course, by the time I got there, the AAA guy had showed up.”

“Do you feel pretty Crash? If so, then yes!”

“i do feel pretty”

“Careful. CB might break out into song now.”

“LOL, poor C!B!.
I just spent the past weekend kayaking in the company of Smokygirl.
C!B!, you ain't pretty. ;-)”

“well compared to smokygirl im just a poor plain jane, but im still pretty”

“ill bet the kid ended up pretty mad at his girl for leaving him--”

“What really sucks is if you get a flat over here on the Palisades Parkway, an older freeway with no paved shoulder. In that case you have to get a state trooper to shut a lane down so you can jack up your car, while everyone drives by you flipping you off because of the 5-mile traffic jam you've just created...

That, my friends, is the definition of "sucks"...”

“it also sucks trying to walk across the palisades parkway from harriman to bear mt park”