{"id":33339,"date":"2012-06-12T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33339"},"modified":"2020-07-01T21:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T01:43:11","slug":"sounds-about-right-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33339","title":{"rendered":"Sounds about right"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here I thought I was having a pleasant day.\u00a0 Purchased an iPad at a discounted cost, found a strip club $20 on the sidewalk, and was kept busy enough at work to make the day kind of breeze by.\u00a0 When I left work, I figured I would pick up Jen, be off the hook for dinner with tasty leftovers, and then watch the Braves vs. Yankees game while playing with my dog.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I got in my car and pulled out of my space, I realized that the tire light was on in my car.\u00a0 My car has low-profile tires (standard, please), so it wasn’t much of a surprise to me that one or more of them might be having some deflation after the last 17 months.\u00a0 But still, I don’t like seeing\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>warning lights on in my car, so I planned on rectifying the air issue when I got home.\u00a0 The initial cruise test revealed that there was a slight pull to the left, so I figured the low tire was on the driver’s side; normal, since I primarily am the only driver, so there’s always more weight on the left side.<\/span><\/p>\n

After picking up Jen, I did the cruise test again, and this time, the pull happened to be a bit stronger.\u00a0 At this point, I made the decision to stop at the next gas station ASAP, since I figure my tires weren’t warm enough to be filling up hot tires yet.\u00a0 I pull off at a gas station, and I get out of my car, and see that the front driver’s tire is indeed, pretty low.\u00a0 Surprisingly low.\u00a0 Unusually lower than I thought it might be.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I uncap all the tires and prepare to start filling, but then I notice the hiss.\u00a0 At first, I think it’s just ambient noise from all the cars, pumps and hoses around me at a busy gas station, but then I see a spot on the low tire.\u00a0 I cover it with my finger, and the hiss dissipates.\u00a0 I drop down, and put my ear close; yup, it’s the tire, and it’s got a puncture on it.\u00a0 From where it came from, I don’t know.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter at this point, because this tire is now un-driveable with it rapidly losing air, and I had to put on the donut.<\/span><\/p>\n

Driving home at no faster than 55 mph, a jumble of emotions are going through my head.\u00a0 A part of me was impressed with myself for not going ballistic and wishing death upon the world like I might have once done under such uncontrollable circumstances.\u00a0 I’m certainly glad that this problem was identified and addressed on the slow city streets instead of a highway-speed blowout on I-85, but the other part of me was just flat out bummed out and disgustingly disappointed at the uncontrollable circumstances that led to me having a punctured tire for some reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

For starters, in order to rectify the problem, I have to hope that the puncture can be patched or plugged, or I’m going to have to replace the tire outright.\u00a0 Either way, it’s not going to be free, and a strip club $20 isn’t going to be quite enough to solve it.\u00a0 I’m also going to have to go through the uncomfortable process of asking for the requisite time off to seek out a solution, which is never any fun.\u00a0 And then I’m betting I’ll have to sit in some garage waiting area for 2-3 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best case scenario is that despite the odd location of the puncture, it can be patched\/plugged, and it won’t cost the equivalent of a slap to the dick.\u00a0 I won’t have to wait severely long, and I’ll get my car back in reasonable time and in as good as condition as it was two days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worst case scenario is that I’m told that due to the location of the puncture, I’ll need a new tire.\u00a0 And they don’t have it in stock, and won’t until Monday.\u00a0 And that they recommend that I replace two tires, in order to maintain even tread wear.\u00a0 And it will cost me $400.\u00a0 And I’ll have to wait six hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you’re bummed out, it feels like nothing is ever going right.\u00a0 So as much as I really, really, really want to get a best case scenario out of this fucking tire debacle, I can’t say I’ll be particularly shocked if I somehow run into a worst case one.<\/span><\/p>\n

lol, just as I was finishing writing this, the Braves just imploded, and just allowed six runs to the Yankees in the eighth inning, and after leading 4-0 most of the game, are suddenly down 6-4 with pretty much no time left.\u00a0 The only thing I was feeling good about this evening, right down the toilet.\u00a0 Fuckin’ figures.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here I thought I was having a pleasant day.\u00a0 Purchased an iPad at a discounted cost, found a strip club $20 on the sidewalk, and was kept busy enough at work to make the day kind of breeze by.\u00a0 When I left work, I figured I would pick up Jen, be off the hook … Continue reading Sounds about right<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,66,51,104,45,15,52,49],"class_list":["post-33339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cars","tag-depression","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33340,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33339\/revisions\/33340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}