All right, many women can change a flat tire. But I will admit it right now, I am not one of them. I am somewhat embarrassed to confess this, but it's true. I found myself dwelling on this thought this morning as I sat on the side of a busy highway dialing my brother's cell phone number so that he could come help me out of a flat tire situation. Well, to be honest it was a blow out. I had somehow hit an invisible, very sharp piece of concrete and blown out my tire. As soon as I heard that awful thud, I had two simultaneous thoughts: one was about the safety of my 14 year-old son who was riding with me the other was the fact that at the age of 36 I still haven't the foggiest idea of how to change a flat tire.
Today my brother happened to be available to bail me out of my jam, but there will be other times when I won't be so lucky. When we got home from our adventure, I promptly looked up
directions on how to change a flat tire. My sibling said he will teach me how to do it, but I printed out the directions and slipped them in my glove box. Tomorrow we are going to have tire changing lessons, but today I have to go replace the old tire and the rim it rode in on.
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I can only add one thought to all, it's a good idea if your vehicle doesn't come with a full sized spare tire to pick up one, you should be able to pick up a spare rim at any junk yard for $20 or less as long as it is a steel one and it is ok to mix and match as long as you keep the tire size the same even if it isn't a new one. The small donut spares are nice to get you 20-30 miles but if you're the type of person who is living week to week for pay and doesn't like to take time off of work to take their vehicle in to get a tire changed a spare tire even if it is only junkyard quality can get you through till the weekend or pay day safely where a donut spare won't.
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