well uh what do you know what the last repair was uh that that you had done to your car
i think the last one we had done on a car had to do with uh the transmission i and i'm not sure exactly what it was that they did i speaking from other ignorance
i see
right
what about your car
um well i i i guess the last thing that we had done uh
was probably we had to have new tires put on it and uh it's sort of a long story we had to get our car inspected uh for the state inspection sticker and
uh-huh
uh the the gas station i didn't know this but the gas station if they reject your car uh they put an x on your inspection sticker and and uh you have to go back to that same station to get it inspected
oh you can't go to a different one
you can't go to a different one and they didn't pass our tires our tires on uh on my car
oh
so uh what they didn't pass the uh the back tires the two back tires so what i did i went down and bought two new uh tires had them put on the front and then my front tires were just rotated to the back
oh uh-huh
and uh so i went back to the gas station and uh the guy said well your back tires still don't pass
and i said no you've got to be kidding because i i just moved them and i told him what i did and he got his little gauge out and said well these don't pass
oh my
so then i had to go back and buy two more oh Lord i was so frustrated with that but uh
buy two more
besides routine oil changes i guess that was about the uh the last last major thing that we've had done to the car
well that i had forgotten my uh i i i have a little station wagon that i drive to work and my husband has a a van that he uses in his business
i see
and he had a similar experience to yours just i'm thinking it was last week or or it it it was certainly within the last couple of weeks
right
uh went to get his uh sticker renewed and had a couple of little things like the clip that holds the uh oh the muffler pipes
right right
up up had broken or sheared or whatever and they measured the tread and i didn't know they did that to the tires
well see i didn't either until it happened
and he had to get two new ones too so i i i'd never heard of it before so my mouth was open the when you mentioned that that circumstance
right right well i tell you what ever since then i found a station that uh uh pretty close to our house that
you know the guy is pretty lenient on the inspection stickers so uh he's definitely going to get my business i tell you but uh
well yeah you you want it you want them to check what's what's needful for your safety and so forth but the other sounds like a fluke when they didn't do it
you you you should have known when you went in the first time uh the if there were if you needed four tires okay fine but tell me all at the same time
that's right you know that the
exactly and uh i don't know it made me sort of question you know their their techniques for testing the cars it was almost like they were just trying to get to me and uh i know they probably weren't but that's uh
you can't help feeling that way
the outlook yeah yeah that's right and plus me being uh uh not not a mechanic you know i i always uh have the feeling that people are out to get to me and i don't know any better you know so
that's that's a common feeling i i i empathize because um i well i'm real glad my husband knows something about cars but when i go in i feel really at a loss
right
and and if we take my car in to be fixed he'll he'll tell them what he wants and then he'll say well well call my wife if there's anything else that needs to be done and then they call me at work because he he doesn't work near uh uh uh doesn't
oh Lord
have a phone i see
have uh office yeah a phone and and so they'll call me and say well Mrs Parker we've got some good news and we've got some bad news the problem we thought about this morning is not a problem but the real problem is is uh
right
and so the only way that i the only thing i know to do in in is if it sounds plausible i'll say go ahead and do it but save me the parts or something so i can have him look at it
right right
and that's the only thing that saved us is is his background there
i see well i i wish i would have been paying more attention when i was out messing around with uh my dad when he was uh out looking at the cars he's he's a pretty good little handy man
but uh i i never did pay any attention never i never really was very interested in cars so uh i'm i'm just the type that if it's got gas in it it should it should be going
that's
that's
and i need to be better because uh uh we just bought it my wife and i just bought a new car and uh you know we want to take real good care of it so uh
sure
i'm trying to have the oil changed at the the right times and things like that
uh-huh
all that scheduled maintenance right
that's right that's right you know that uh thirty or forty dollars you have to pay every so many months to to keep the thing in hopefully good shape
but uh i think i guess it'd be better to pay it out now than a big lump sum down the road
that's the truth that's the truth i always wanted to know a little bit more but i think it was more to show off
but
right
when i was growing up and i before before i was married i was teaching school and teaching down in Corpus Christi and i wanted to be able to at least change a flat tire
right
between Arlington where my family lived and down there and so i i had one day i had said told my brother i said now i know everybody's suppose to change tire know how but i said i can't do that will you help me will you show me
and so i had him out there and he was helping and mother came to the door and said Larry you've got a phone call so he went in to talk to one of his many friends and i i'm i'm down i'm there with this tire off
right
oh Lord
so i thought i have better things to do i can do this myself and so oh i guess i was getting ready to start that was it it wasn't even off so i started
jacking it up and and and so forth and somehow or other the the jack slipped it's one of those that has the ratchet kind of thing
just taking it off
oh Lord right
and i reached out to grab it and it caught the the webbing between my thumb and my my forefinger
oh
it caught the and i couldn't do anything i fortunately it was loose it was no longer under the car and i i i could not get my my i could just see me through the rest of my life with this
jack attached to my hand and i i couldn't see anybody on the street no other kids all over so i went to the to the door
oh Lord
and it was summertime the air conditioner was on the door was closed and i couldn't knock because i had to hold the jack with the other hand i finally with my elbow rang the doorbell and mother came to the door
oh jeez
and i wouldn't let her touch me i i wanted my brother to help me with this that was a shock the he put the phone down pretty quickly and it didn't take him long to extricate
my hand but oh i was scared to death i i i could see him cutting out my my whole palm just to get this little flap of skin out so that's that's how mechanical i am
that's hilarious
to to get that jack off that's right oh that's a funny story
and that was oh that was twenty five years ago so i i've not tried it since oh plus plus before this i had put all the lugs back in place
oh Lord
right
but i had the wrong side out i didn't know there was a right and wrong side the thread worked
oh Lord oh jeez
and so i was so proud after he got me extricated he looked at went out there to check it over
and he just laughed he said Sissy i'm sorry but we're going to redo this
they're on backwards huh oh jeez all that work and
so uh
listen i'll call Triple A uh auto club any time
that's right any time that's right well that's uh that's the way i feel i i feel like i i work uh hard enough and make enough money i i can pay somebody to take care of my cars
it it it'll save your fingers trust me
so uh that's right that's right well hey i appreciate the conversation
well i enjoyed it Jay thank you bye-bye
alrighty bye-bye
