We love learning at Berkshire Publishing and I don’t mind getting my hands dirty, but it was a bit humiliating to admit that I didn’t know how to change a tire. I had driven out to
A police car slowed to ask what was wrong. “I’m waiting for help,” I said, glancing down at the tire. “Do you have a spare?” the policeman asked.
I admitted that I did not know, and that I wouldn’t know how to change it anyway. “But someone from my office is coming,” I said. He nodded, drove on, then turned around and came back. “Want to give it a try?” he asked.
We found the spare tire and then had to locate the manual to find out where the jack was stored. As my new teacher, who turned out to be the police chief of
I felt that we were not making a good statement about modern females and said we wanted to finish the job ourselves, even though by this time a tow truck had arrived, sent when someone called AAA. But it’s really simple, changing a tire. You loosen the nuts while the tire is on the ground, jack up the car, loosen the nuts the rest of the way and take the flat tire off. You put on the spare, and hold it in place with the nuts, then lower the car and tighten the nuts once it’s down. How could we have not known how to do this?
Funny how Liz and I get into these situations together. And she’s always ready to capture the moment with a photo, so you can see me, above, changing my first tire.
Gizmo? Gizmo! I couldn’t have said “gizmo”. Who says gizmo? Wikkipedia suggests that it may have been used had we been roadside in our bell-bottoms, with flowers in our hair. I think I used the all too bland 21st century “thing” in asking about the incredibly small instrument that can hold the weight of an entire car! Regardless, I’m inspired. I’m bringing gizmo back.
Karen, your post needs some editing, no wrap arounds on several lines, good post. 🙂
I’m sure I heard ‘gizmo,’ Liz. Or was it ‘thing-a-ma-bob’? Didn’t you tell me the other day that you knew someone who said ‘jeepers!’? You may have been under the influence.
As a rebel against Wikipedia, I went to the Urban Dictionary http://www.urbandictionary.com instead, and found this, “identical in meaning to thing-a-ma-jig (without pointing). similar in meaning to doo-hickey.” (By the way, have you noticed how many people who aren’t exactly Who’s Who material have bios in Wikipedia, while people who are actually important in business and politics do not? This is yet another thing that makes me dubious about Wikipedia content in general. There’s a rule against putting yourself in, I hear, but it’s a little hard to imagine how else this is happening. Now if anyone happens to want to write an entry about a small town publisher and environmental author called Karen Christensen. . . .)
John, I can’t see the wrapping problem, but did fix a few typos. Thanks!