Just Another Thursday

When I got to work this morning, I noticed that the tire on the front of my van was low. Low enough that I figured I had better take it in and have Les Schwab check it out. I suppose I could fill it up myself, but why should I go to the trouble when they will do it for free?

So I pulled into the LS Tire Center in Kenmore just before noon. They were really busy. Something about the heat making tires fail, maybe? Eventually they got to my van, pulled it into the garage, took the tire off. I was wandering restlessly in and out of the air conditioned waiting area to the parking lot where I could see what they were doing with the van and back.

Just as I wandered back into the waiting area, there was a VERY LOUD POP! I turned around in time to see bits of tire and such flying across the parking lot. I went back out to see if everyone was ok... and realized that it was MY tire that had just popped.

A short while later one of the earnest young men who worked at the place confirmed it. Freak accident, usually doesn't happen. Oh, yes, it might have happened while you were driving if you'd driven it much longer or tried to fill it yourself. Yup, good thing you came in. Little dollar signs floated around my head and spun off into the atmosphere and I felt a distinct pain in my wallet.

It took them a bit longer to get a new tire and replace it and test everything so I wouldn't blow up as soon as I went back out on the road. As I prepared to pay, the guy working on it came up to me and said, "No charge, since it was one of our tires that blew," and handed me my keys.

I will never go anywhere else to get or fix my tires.