One time I stopped along the road to help a lady change a flat tire on her car. When I stopped I noticed she already had the car jacked up and the flat tire removed from the car, with the spare tire just sitting on the ground. I asked her, I bet her spare is outta air and I could help her since I carry a compressor in my truck. She said, "no my spare isn't flat, I need bolts" she explained to me she had no lug nuts in the trunk to install the spare tire. I explained to her that she has to use the same lug nuts that she removed from the car. "Ohhhh" she said" she didn't know that, she threw the lug nuts into the grass along the side of the road, we found most of them, I helped her finish the job and she went on her way.

 

Props for helping her!


How many lugnuts did you find?

 

Kudos for stopping!

But LMAO thats is good! Did you keep a straight face as she told you that? I dont know if I could have with out a small snicker coming out.

 

Haha, nice. I would have burst out laughing so hard.

 

So she knew where the jack was, how to jack up the car, how to remove the wheel with the lug wrench, but didnt know to reuse the nut and threw the lug nuts in the ditch.
Riiiiight.

 

i dont doubt that story for a second......just the other day i stopped and helped a girl that was on the side of the road...turns out her car had overheated and the first thing she did when she stopped was unscrew the radiator cap was sprayed from head to toe with coolant...there are some pretty ignorant people out there....

 

My best ladies indistress and one night fling started out that way!!!

 

Dear I-menance we found them all except one, I expained to her one lug nut missing won't cause a problem in the short term. This is the day of the "New Independent Woman" they don't need a man to change a flat tire, they can do that themselves,. but sometimes they forget they need men to think for them.

 

How did she think the tire was going to stay on?? I would have laughed so hard, there no way I could keep a straight face. Some people have no clue. Scary.

 

I don't think the instructions in the owners manual say to resuse the lug nuts. I may be wrong though.

 

I can believe it. Some people are so clueless. One cold Canadian winter day I came upon a lady in the parking lot with a dead battery. I hooked up the booster cables and was letting her battery get some juice in it when she removes the oil filler cap and looks inside and says " damn thing is low on oil again". I did a double take and couldn't believe what I was hearing. I actually had to explain the whole dipstick concept to her.

 

When your jar of peanut butter is empty and needs to be replaced, do you save the lid?

 

LOL...Alright I'll bite....So how many quarts over did she have it when you pulled the dipstick? Or had it already blown the main seals out so was running out as fast as she could pour it in anyway?

 

It was about two inches abouve the full mark on a little fourbanger. I didn't waste too much time on her as it was freakin cold out.

 

I helped a lady with her dead Subaru. Her alternator had clearly died and she ran out of battery on the off ramp. She could not even turn on flashers. It was one of those cold nights in the teens with a wind chill below 0 and she was in her business/office clothes. I had a bright coat on so I stood with her waving people around until the tow truck came. They showed up with a hook truck but because of Subarus all wheel drive they had to come back with a flat bed. The hook truck at least got her off the off ramp. The flatbed truck shows up and the driver has his girlfriend with him so the lady has no place to sit. I drove her home about 24 miles round trip from my house. She was very thankful. She sent my wife a bouquet of flowers and a thank you card. About a month later she sent me a gift certificate to the 99 (local restaurant chain). All in all not bad for being a nice guy.