hooray for P--
Nov. 5th, 2004 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awhyzipSo, I have been concerned all week because my tire got a massive flat (giant bolt or screw, complete with what looks like white dry-wall anchor) last Friday and I've been going around on my compact spare all week. And I have a tire-replacement insurancey deal that my mom signed up for at Town Fair Tire when she replaced all the tires before giving me the car. (Very nice of my mom.) All I have to do is go to a Town Fair Tire, and if the tire is dead from road damage, they give me new one free (and I pay $5 bucks to re-initialize the coverage for that tire). Which is, all things considered, pretty sweet. But I have to go to a Town Fair Tire to do it. And the only one I know in Eastern Mass is in Natick. And I HATE Natick. There is no place that I hate more to go to. It is far away, and it is confusing. It is filled with giant stores -- which I don't like -- and all the giant stores are strewn everywhere -- they don't even have the decency to shove all themselves into one mall. No, they are all around the Mall, too; surrounding it, spreading up various streets, creating deep enclaves of stores on their own private "streets" made of shared parking lots, enclaves too deep to see what's hulking in the back until you've missed the entrance, or having separate parking lots, which are divided by mean-spirited medians of ugly foot-wide pavement. Having missed any turn, you cannot recover. The roads do not intersect and the center-lines of chain-link fence interdict any reversal.
<Shiver, Shake it off> Anyway, the point of this post is not How Much Do I Hate, Detest, and Fear the Natick Uber-Mall. The point is how great my co-worker P. is! I confessed to her my impending doom (aka necessary trip to Natick), and she told me that I can take my punctured tire to ANY MECHANIC'S AT ALL, and they can probably patch it! They plug the hole with special goop, and I do not need a new tire!!
OK, all of you who know and love and maintain your own cars/motorcycles/whatevers can go shake your heads and laugh gently now, but I never knew that before.
And what makes her really great, is that after enlightening me on this score, she offered that she drives by Natick on her way home, and would take my tire over if I end up still needing to replace it. That's how great she is.
Hooray for P.!
(After this, Y. looks at the Store Locator list of Town Fair Tires and tells me that several of them are closer than Natick to Newton. So, that's good to know, too. Pissed-off-customer points to Town Fair Tire, who can't be bothered to include a locator map with their state-by-state static listing of stores. They already have behind-the-times demerits for not providing a sort-by-distance-from-entered-ZIP-code search. It wouldn't be hard to do -- just stick a graphic at the top of the page!)
<Shiver, Shake it off> Anyway, the point of this post is not How Much Do I Hate, Detest, and Fear the Natick Uber-Mall. The point is how great my co-worker P. is! I confessed to her my impending doom (aka necessary trip to Natick), and she told me that I can take my punctured tire to ANY MECHANIC'S AT ALL, and they can probably patch it! They plug the hole with special goop, and I do not need a new tire!!
OK, all of you who know and love and maintain your own cars/motorcycles/whatevers can go shake your heads and laugh gently now, but I never knew that before.
And what makes her really great, is that after enlightening me on this score, she offered that she drives by Natick on her way home, and would take my tire over if I end up still needing to replace it. That's how great she is.
Hooray for P.!
(After this, Y. looks at the Store Locator list of Town Fair Tires and tells me that several of them are closer than Natick to Newton. So, that's good to know, too. Pissed-off-customer points to Town Fair Tire, who can't be bothered to include a locator map with their state-by-state static listing of stores. They already have behind-the-times demerits for not providing a sort-by-distance-from-entered-ZIP-code search. It wouldn't be hard to do -- just stick a graphic at the top of the page!)
