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    김치전!Hamilton Nolan
    8/26/14 12:21pm

    I am 29 years old and I don't know how to change a tire. I don't plan to learn, either. My baby-soft hands will never be besmirched with automotive grease. Fuck all y'all.

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      Hamilton Nolan김치전!
      8/26/14 12:25pm

      I don't believe I've ever changed a tire in my life.

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      AnotherSplitAtomHamilton Nolan
      8/26/14 12:28pm

      One of my proudest moments was changing a flat for an old dude while wearing three inch heels and a pencil skirt.

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    RuckRuckHamilton Nolan
    8/26/14 12:24pm

    My parents required that my siblings and I learn basic maintenance (check fluids, check tire pressure, tread depth, etc) and emergency maintenance (coolant replacement, tire replacement, stuck vehicle self recovery and strap/tow recovery) before they would allow us to take our driver's test. Also required us to be able to drive a manual transmission, but we were allowed to test in an automatic.

    I ended up recovering so many vehicles for my friends, it was ridiculous.

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      myprettyponyRuckRuck
      8/26/14 12:27pm

      Just so you know, there's something called "Triple A".

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      RuckRuckmyprettypony
      8/26/14 12:31pm

      Which is great idea until you're hung up on a drift at 10pm, five miles off the nearest paved road, three hours in to a potentially 24 hour blizzard. The only person you should rely on to save you is you.

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    stacyinbeanHamilton Nolan
    8/26/14 12:24pm

    See I think this blame falls squarely on the parents. When I got my first car (1991 Plymouth Laser, what!) my dad taught me how to change the tires, check and change the oil and oil filter and how to jump it. These are basic life skills. My boss was just telling me that his 40 year old daughter just drove her 4th car into the ground by never changing the oil, what the hell is wrong with people?

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      LasEstrellasstacyinbean
      8/26/14 1:04pm

      If she were my kid there wouldn't have been any cars after the first, I am assuming she didn't buy them for herself.

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      stacyinbeanLasEstrellas
      8/26/14 1:08pm

      I'm guessing she didn't either. Rich people, ugh.

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    phunkshunHamilton Nolan
    8/26/14 12:21pm

    You know, One of the first things they should teach you when learning about driving is to always have a breaker bar and an appropriate sized socket on hand to change a tire.

    Everyone learns this the hard way the first time out (because the default equipment they give you to do the tire change is absolute shit.)

    (Edit: Also, I can't believe I'm gray on your posts.)

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      SIGHRphunkshun
      8/26/14 12:31pm

      I was on probation for a drug charge until I was 18 and barred from receiving a license until then. Changing a tire was a part of learning to drive that my Dad made me learn. So basically, I would have been one of the 15-17 year olds that didn't know how, but I Did learn by the time I got my permit.

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      HeckLeglerphunkshun
      8/26/14 12:32pm

      Learned the hard way indeed. About 1am-4am one morning my freshman year with a stuck/stripped lugnut...

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    LordBurleighHamilton Nolan
    8/26/14 12:27pm

    One time, when I was in college, a bunch of friends and I took the car of one of the group members to dinner. While we were enjoying our Mexican fare (I had a gordita, the real kind), somebody slashed the car's tires, which we didn't realize until we were about halfway back to campus. We pulled over, in the parking lot of a local military base, and as we started to change the tire, a pelting rain started up. We spent about twenty minutes getting drenched while loosening lug nuts, when suddenly a pair of headlights flashed on nearby. A cop had been watching us struggle the whole time. Finally, he came over to help, brushing us all aside and making a real show of how strong he was. The tire changed, he ordered my friend to take the car for a test loop through lot. When she got back, he ticketed her for having expired tags.

    Coda: then the spare blew, and we had to call campus security to take us back to school. During the short trip, the guard who picked us up radioed to his colleagues that he had taken care of "the damsel in distress situation."

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      Molly with the Mediocre Hair (mollymlf05)LordBurleigh
      8/26/14 1:16pm

      Man, fuck that cop so hard. Expired tags? I think 20 minutes in the rain and a warning is punishment enough.

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      LordBurleighMolly with the Mediocre Hair (mollymlf05)
      8/26/14 1:31pm

      Yeah, that guy was a dick.

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