Some days just seem better than others and yesterday didn’t exactly seem like one of those . It started a week or so ago when a very slight intermittent noise would come and go from the front of the truck . Immediately instinct told me it was what is known as a wheel hub or bearing . I had suffered something similar two years ago and so decided to wait a bit until it got worse in order to make a more decisive diagnosis . Within a couple of days the ABS/Check Brake System warning light came on to leer at me with menace from the dash … so I checked the brake system just as the glaring little light commanded me to do.
Sure enough the front brakes were dragging and since I have enough bravado to dismantle them and check it out and get everything back together , I did just that. The endeavor was a total success until the second time I stepped on the brake pedal . Lacking the heart to go through this again I made an appointment with a local mechanic just two miles away and dropped it off first thing in the morning . Turned out to be frozen brake calipers AND a completely shot drivers side wheel hub . Unfortunately at the end of the day when I completed a two mile hike to pick it up at the appointed time a needed part still had not arrived with no likelihood that it might prior to closing time .
With no other option I walked the five minutes it took to reach the local ABC liquor store to buy a most necessary 12 pack of my favorite craft beer before repeating the 2 mile hike back home . The hike home gave me something to be almost grateful for as I noticed I wasn’t completely alone . A very handsome SUV sat in a driveway with both rear tires flat and ya know … one spare tire ain’t worth a fig with two flats.
Just about four minutes south of the end of my street a neighbor on his way home stopped to ask if my 12 pack and I needed a ride ..
” No … I just need a beer ”
I took the remnants of a ride anyway and finally got home to find a Colombian wife with a toothache mopping up water from under the bathroom sink as a nine month old faucet had just shit the bed ….
… so , try that day on for size … I dare ya
