Driving to Work in the Rain

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:07 am

**grabs Jameson**
**relaxes**
**drinks heavily**
note to self: maintain confidence in your lawyer for he will keep you out of the clink

McBane · Post by **McBane** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:09 am

Thanks for the confidence, Ned.

Well, I gotta go, beers and baseball await.

Viv, I hope your day gets better. *hug*

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:20 am

Originally posted by McBane
@ Viv - I am intimated by your beauty and presence. If I were to see you in public, I probably wouldn't approach you, as I would fumble my words, and embarrass myself.

Gets her 'lawyer decoder' ring out:

"Your stories of Rabbits scare me." Stop. "I have seen you in public but was not able to approach from my position inside the mailbox." Stop. "I love football." Full Stop.

Scayde: Oh, but his car is a stick.

I shared my story of Viv and the stick shift car and the evil state of Oklahoma?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 11:30 am

@Vivien:
If you need tires, this is what a friend of mine in college used to do (and I am not endorsing this practise nor am I encouraging anyone to actually do this):

He drove a Ford Taurus, which is common not only among everyday drivers, but rental car companies. He'd go to Enterprise or Hertz and rent the newest car that was the exact same make and model that he had (his wheels were stock, too). Then he'd go to Pep Boys and get them to swap the tires on both cars for $5 per wheel. So for the cost of the rental car (about $30) and $20 for the tire swap, he got brand new factory tires for his car.

@Flanders:
I love my Corolla, but I want something that's a little bigger, sportier and that has less road noise on the interstate. It's got 110,000 miles and aside from normal maintenance, the only work I have done to it in four years is replacing the alternator. Sarah wants me to sell it to one of the kids, but he doesn't have the money to meet my minimal asking price.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:12 pm

@HLD, isn't that fraud?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:16 pm

Fraud? I don't think so; it's theft. Which is why I don't endorse the practise or encourage anyone to do it . . . but it is one way to get new tires . . .

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:24 pm

I think its fraud - if you just took the tires it would be theft. Trying to pass the old ones on the new car is fraud.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:42 pm

So are you going to try it the next time you need tires? Off the record, of course . . .

Vivien · Post by **Vivien** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 12:45 pm

HLD:
If I could figure out how to take off my car tires, I probably wouldn't be in the mess I'm in to begin with.

Yes, it's fraud...but them I myself am being rather bad now. I'm adding pictures to our org. chart and I'm altering the pictures.

I just now gave a woman a makeover, and I've whitened many teeth.

I can't help it if these people take bad pictures, they'd thank me if they knew...I think...

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:28 pm

oooh, Viv, you have a nasty streak. I like.

@HLD, I don't have a car.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:35 pm

@HLD that is funny!

We recently had to buy a new tyre for the motorbike. Inclusive of fitting (because we cannot get the wheel off) it cost approx £150. I got a full set of Continentals for my car for the same price as one Michelin for the Kawasaki

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Sep 26, 2002 1:48 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
@HLD that is funny!

We recently had to buy a new tyre for the motorbike. Inclusive of fitting (because we cannot get the wheel off) it cost approx £150. I got a full set of Continentals for my car for the same price as one Michelin for the Kawasaki

One of my many uncles buys some cars just for the tyres, quite often at auctions people will sell off cars for 50 quid and there will be 80 quids worth of tyres on them!

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 6:14 pm

Originally posted by Vivien
Because my SO (‘I’ve go the most expensive car, and I’m a man, therefore I get the garage stall’)

Such a cultured and refined gent. The fact your car was broken into causes him no worry, knowing full well you make the walk alone? I'm guessing that his vehicle is also not a car at all, but some form of utilo-sport, trucktastic monstrosity. No?

If it is any consolation, the thought of ladies in wet garments is nothing short of mesmerizing.