D. Peter Maus wrote:
Well, he got caught on the freeway with a flat tire, once. And
not knowing how to fix it, reached for his cell phone and called for
a tow. There was no signal available from where he was located, so
he got ****ed and tried to walk somewhere for a better signal. After
a few hours walk, he finally connected to a tower, placed a call,
and called a tow. He walked back to his car to find it had been
stripped bare with little left but the paint job and someone working
on that. The tow truck had been there, had seen the stripped
skeleton, and had left. He had to walk somewhere to get a ride back
home. He was ****ed, but when he related his experiences, here, and
was told he should have learned how to change a tire, he simply said
that thinking was obsolete. It's simpler to just call someone.

There are two sides to every story. Assuming he had full coverage insurance,
with a resonable deductable, for less than the cost of a set of 5 high end
tires (4 and a new spare), he got a brand new car. :-)

If he did not have enough, or any insurance, that 's because he did not
make enough phone calls. :-(

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM
New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or
understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation.
i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.