Beautiful sights

Beautiful sights
Horses at blue water Lake state park

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

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!

10 comments:

  1. Hazel, Thanks for stopping by my blog. You asked about Toppers and Swaps. A Topper is an embellishment that goes on top of a card. Usually made with a backing card, which sometimes can be more than one layer and different textures and thickness. Then you'd have a flower, picture, etc., on top of that. Then when you send it to your Swap Pal they an use it to make a card. I am a member of two crafting groups on Ebay and they run various swaps. Also a member of a crafting group on FB.

    So glad none of you hurt yourself on that floor.

    A lot of money,m but well spent. At least you are safe now.

    You mentioned about not having Greyhound images. If you go onto Google and click images and then type in Greyhounds, you'll get loads. You can then save them into your Pictures.

    Have a nice day. Sue

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    1. Thanks Sue, I loved reading your explanation of the toppers and swaps, and how to find greyhound images!

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  2. Glad your tires and alignment are fixed. I got an oil change at a Pep Boys once. I think they all have uncomfortable chairs. I'm glad nobody was hurt in the 'quicksand' that kept sucking you guys in.

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  3. Woa! So glad all 3 of you were able to regain your footing! Nice to have new tires--one less worry!

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    1. Dawn, I also checked the motorhome tires when I got "home" but could not find any problems. I had them all installed the same month in 2010! (car and motorhome)

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  4. Oh funny story! Glad no injuries.

    Maura

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    1. Maura, I'm glad the story came across as funny because I tried to make it so!

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  5. I would think your tires would last longer than that - 4 years? They are supposed to last 6 years, but maybe you have a lot of miles on the car tires? I'm glad they checked them out and you now have good tires. :)

    Can you imagine if someone else came upon Power spread-eagled on the floor like that. They would have been pretty surprised!

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  6. Sounds rather comical, but I'm glad no one was hurt!

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