The wife's car needed new brakes. It's 11 years old so I guess it was due. The problem is that it was not possible to take both cars into town to drop hers off and get home.

So I loaded one sadly dusty bicycle into the back. Took the car to the shop. The set out for home. It's only a couple of miles but it didn't take long to reach the conclusion that the bike wasn't the only thing that was dusty.

The shop closes at 4:00 on Saturday so I gave them a credit card over the phone and told them to lock the keys in it. At 5:30 I was stirring up the dust again, making the ride back into town to get the car. Aside from a couple of potentially treacherous intersections, it wasn't a bad ride.

But between the bill and the dust, I'll be feeling this one for a while.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:24 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment