Saturday is errand day. A Costco run. Gas in the car. Maybe a little window shopping at the furniture store. (Why I find this so appealing is beyond me, but alas, I do). This Saturday we were out and about doing the usual stuff and as we left Costco we noticed that the left front tire was low. Quite low. No problem. Air is free right? Well, actually, at Costco, Air costs 50 cents but I digress. Steve grabbed the pressure guage, bent to add the air and said the one thing you hate to hear when cars are involved. Yup, the dreaded "uh oh".
Nail in the tire. Now you know you can't pull that thing out right? And you know it's not a good idea to drive around with it so we have no choice but to head straight to the tire store for a repair. Free repair because that's where Steve always buys his tires. Well, it would have been a free repair if the tire guy hadn't said, you guessed it, "uh oh". Seems the tread was way too worn to repair the tire. So we have no choice but to buy 2 new tires and agree to wait the hour it will take to have them mounted.
It's hot and humid outside. Every seat in the tire shop is taken so we trundle off across the parking lot to the nearby stores, all with AC's merrily humming, to kill some time. We escape Kohl's without spending a cent. Wander through Office Max and get out FREE. Then we wander in to Best Buy. I can just hear you thinking it... "uh oh"
We look at camera lenses. Drool on a few Ipods. And end up in the TV department. We are not 'really' in the market for a TV just yet. Our Old Monster of a tube TV still works. We want a Flat Screen - one day. But they aren't cheap and we don't want a dinky one. And I am picky and I like Sony because the picture is so bright and shiny. The price tag that comes with a Sony is often bigger than the screen size. Until today. The one I want is discounted by over $500. I don't know why it is. The clerk can't .. or won't.. say how long it will be. We debate. We leave the store. Pick up the car. End up back at Best Buy. Somehow we just couldn't bring ourselves to leave that big black box with the shiny screen in that store. We hauled it home ... bouncing merrily along on the new tread.
And that is how Flat Tires become Flat Screen TV's.
My Divine Potential
6 years ago
3 comments:
That is a great story! Kathy you are funny! And I totally know how that goes! I hope you enjoy your new TV!
~Malisa 12's
Wow, don't tell dan this story, he will head right out to both our cars to start slashing tires! That is amazing you got $500 bucks off! How COULD you pass that up??
Im right there with holly! Dont tell mike! He has been wanting one for ever. That is funny story! :)
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