Big Snow

Posted on January 19, 2007
Filed Under River Notes |

Sometimes things just work out. It’s been a tough couple of weeks in which the world has just seemed to jump up & bite me in various small ways. Last night when we were driving home in my car, Carole said, “What is that vibration, it’s making me seasick!” Well, I had been noticing a little pulsation in the steering wheel, but the thing with the all-wheel drive in my Subaru is that even with bad tires the handling deteriorates slowly. But I had to admit, when it was pointed out to me, that it felt as if someone had duct-taped a tennis ball to my front left tire. So this morning I took it in to have the tires looked at. Actually, it was so bad I thought there might be something wrong with the suspension & halfway to the mechanic’s I heard a couple of strange noises, pulled over, got out my phone & called AAA. I mean, that’s why I pay for it, right? The truck came & pulled my little ten-year-old Legacy up onto its platform, I climbed in beside the driver & off we went. It took about 40 minutes from freak out to garage bay. The tires were awful, but nothing else was broken. Ibought four new tires, then went off to a department meeting. When I came out of the meeting, it was snowing like crazy. We’ve had very little snow this winter, but this was the real deal. It’s fourteen miles from school to home & the road was completely covered. I drove between 25 & 30 mph through occasional near-white-out conditions. But I had new tires on the car. I was positively mellow.