Tires again! Greyhounds take my mind off of tire woes!

Yesterday I went to the Yuma AZ PEP Boys store to replace the bad tire.  The manager was a nice and knowledgeable man, who showed me that I had cracks on all my tires just outside the wheel rim!  I hadn't even looked there.  He also showed other cracks, and so I decided to replace all 4 tires.  He also told me that the front-end alignment was bad and needed to be adjusted.  So, 4 hours and $850 lighter in the wallet, I was ready to leave.

But------WHOA, I need to tell you one other thing.  I had my greyhounds with me, and we waited in the store's waiting room ( very uncomfortable chairs).  I had to do some squirming from time to time, trying to maintain a level of comfort.  During one of these moments, Power felt a surge of curiosity, and realized my hand was not tight on the leash, so he just "took off".  I got up, and taking Fleur with me, we went to the back of the store where I had last seen the flick of his skinny white-tipped tail!  We walked in several aisles, but no sightings.  But, just as I wondered if I needed to go back to the waiting area, I saw Power, doing an excellent imitation of a spraddled creature.  He had walked onto an area of vinyl floor which was extremely slippery.  All four legs were in the four directions of the compass.  I went to "rescue" him, still holding Fleur's leash, and she also became spraddled.  As I tried to get them up and on to non slippery flooring, my own feet began to slide in opposite directions. 

Representing Hazel scratching head while wondering how to get onto solid footing!

 I guess three is a good number, because we three were able to lean on each other a bit and I finally got all three of us onto solid footing. The floor looked normal, but it was NOT normal.  I'm surprised someone hasn't been injured. 

Pluto drawing, showing a relieved dog, who got off the slippery floor!

I wish so much that I had an archive of drawings of greyhounds to illustrate stories which have no photos!