Category Archives: Wits End

Curbs Cause Flat Tires?

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The other day I was driving with my daughter and we started talking about flat tires. the conversation started by my asking if she knew how to change a flat. Of course she didn’t so I tried to explain it to her. She eventually asked me about how people got flat tires. So I rattled off the list : nail, leaky valve, hitting the curb. It was at this point that she stopped me and asked, “you can get a flat by hitting the curb?” I told her how the curb would rip open the side of the tire. At which point she said, “oh, I better be more careful.”

What could she be thinking?

Mom wants to Build a Rubber Car

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After her two teenagers had four accidents in a little less than two years causing rising insurance premiums she has come up with an idea. With incidents ranging from smashing into their dad’s co-worker’s luxury sedan while pulling out of a tight parking space or scraping the side of a fellow diner’s car in a local pizza joint. She wants to build a rubber car. I don’t know how successful she will be but she is clearly at her wits end.

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