Flat
On Saturday, I went out to get in my car to go to a meeting and found I had a flat tire. I pretended it wasn't flat and drove to the gas station so they could put air in it.
This is possible because I:
- Live in town
- Have all wheel drive
- had a slow leak not a ruined tire
I think the whole thing is in some way a metaphor for my life...
Comments
I saw a sign the other day that said WE FIX FLAT TIRES.
This amazed me, because there seemed to be some kind of union of flat-tire-fixers with some form of bylaws stipulating that such signs contain no grammar and no plural to indicate an elliptical intent to say "we fix flats." Ninety-nine percent of the "we fix flat tires" signs here say
FLAT FIX.
I don't *think* they're actually selling drugs at a flat rate, but I don't know.
Posted by: Terry | December 4, 2003 06:12 PM
Maybe it's a verb prohibition. I'm amazed that anyone puts up signs about fixing flat tires, but then we only have one service station in town (no maybe two) so maybe that's it.
Not, btw, that it's a small town (maybe by your standards, but not ours :-) but everything else is convenience stores or Midas muffler or specialty tire only places, which I _assume_ fix flats, but who really knows....
Posted by: debco | December 5, 2003 06:11 PM