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"Do you have enemies?"

gingersoul posted on Jul 22, 2009 | views: 404 | Tags: life, car, enemies, weird, no enemy, tires

"Are you sure you don't have enemies?"

What?

The guy is half laughing and half serious. I shake my head and quickly answer back:
"'No way....no....I don't think so.....no......really...WHY??"

Antecedent:
Monday i was driving to work.
It was raining.
Monday morning traffic rush is not a good moment to get stuck in your car still half sleeping and in need of a gigantic powerful caffeine kick a la Tyson in the brain.
So when at the red light i noticed this guy looking at me from his pick up I thought:
"Great. Just what i need. A four wheel peeping tom"

I turned my head to the left but when i looked again to my right he was still there, moving his lips like in....
"Y-o-u-h-a-v-e-a-f-l-a-t-t-i-r-e"

Y-o-u-h-a-v-e-a-w-h-a-t ....a ....flat tire?????

How is that possible?

Only Saturday I had brought the car at Wal Mart for her check up and they had taken care of the tires too.
Everything looked fined.

And now this???

I thanked the guy, nodding vigorously and widely smiling, showing him the thumb up. How nice of him, after all. He smiled back and sprinted ahead.

Now i needed to find a place to fix that horror.

While driving and looking around i called my Nazi boss to tell her that no way i would have made it in time.
I have a flat tire, sistah...not a fake excuse here.
 
Luckily, in the midst of that shittiness i noticed a car center, not that far from my office.
I drove there and i parked in front of the big garage.
A short, young guy walked to me and i explained him the situation.
He bent over to the right tire and shook his head.

No good, i thought.

He proceeded to check the other front tire and again, big shaking head motion.
Oh, no, this is twice no good, i thought again.


And there it was when he asked half serious and half joking:
 "Do you have enemies?"

Yep, because i had not one BUT two flat tires, both showing two pretty nasty big nails deeply implanted in them..
The kind you have to shoot in, he seemed to imply.

"Did you drive maybe in a rough construction area?"
 
Uhmm, nope.

Therefore, i might have had somebody who loved firing nails in my tires.

Now.... i am a nice person.
Most of the time.
Sure, you migth catch me in a grumpy mood here and there, sure i might not be a chirpy morning person when i meet you up and down the stairs going to work, sure i might also give you a Medusa look if you do or say something i don;t appreciate in my close vicinity.

But, generally, i am a nice person. Just Saturday, at Wal Mart, grocery shopping while waiting for my car to be checked, i helped an old lady finding the cookies aisle. She was wandering helplessly  and couldn't just find the vanilla wafers so I escorted her to Aisle 7, cookies and chips.
I don't think i deserve two nails stuck in my tires, people.

Thank you very much, car center guy.....now i have this creepy, chilling, fastidious bug in my brain..

Since my car has been parked most of the week end in front of my building and i didn't drive in any war zone kind of road Sunday.... ..i have a suspect..

It must have been somebody living in my same complex.
And the time frame of the tire shooting must have been somewhere during Sunday.

Maybe i really have a hater, an enemy, a stalker, a idiot who likes sticking huge nails in people's tires.... maybe it will happen again....where is Sherlock when you need him?

At least....if my flat tire had happened like in Rocky Horror Pictures Show.... it would have been a lot more interesting.....lol...

After all......you know.....it was raining Monday morning, like in the movie....i had a flat tire, like in the movie.....but my mechanic was not satanic at all and no way i met my sweet transvestite, transsexual, Transylvanian ....lol....  

Maybe next time....;-p


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  • GrapeKoolaid said on Jul 22, 2009....
    You're lucky in some sense. 

    I know.  Having two flat tires at once doesn't constitute as being incredibly lucky, but if that guy in the pickup didn't point it out to you, you could have driven to work, and by the time you got out, you would have had to call a tow truck to take the car to the garage.  If you just kept driving on the flat tires, you could have damaged the axle on the car, plus the rims.  That would have cost you a lot more. 

    You know, silver lining to every cloud. 

    As to your enemies, I can't possibly imagine who would have an axe to grind against you...  (Though to be fair, I am extremely biased when it comes to this particular matter)

    No transvestite transsexual here (un)fortunately.  :D
  • gingersoul said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Well.....yes, after one gets over the darn freaking oddity....i know it.......it could have been so much worse.... :-(

    Even two years when i got another flat tire a guy signaled me the situation...i was happily singing along with the radio....lol...

    Question: why no woman showed me the same Samaritan attitude?

    Oh, shut.....no transvestite in Chicago......;-p
  • beyondtheveil said on Jul 22, 2009....
    soulgirl- Tim Curry is my all time favorite Transylvanian  transexual transvestite, you know. I don't even remember how many times I saw that midnight movie.

    I don't know what to say about your two flat tires. Those nail guns are usually run by compressed air, although some are electric. It's just not something you walk around with. Also, the nails are usually attached strips like a machine gun belt. Very strange.

    Good thing the guy in the pick-up told you.

    I've noticed guys in pick-ups are wonderful people. The very best. Always ready to help. You know what I drive, don't you?
  • superbozo said on Jul 22, 2009....

    What kind of a-hole flattens someones tyres. Glad you got them seen too before they caused you any serious probs.

     

  • secretlife said on Jul 22, 2009....
    hey, report that to your rental office.
    if for no other reason then you might not be the only person who had nails in their tires.......oh and maybe even the police.  it's an act of vandalism.
     
    i think i'd be nervous, but i'm willing to bet there are others who were in the same boat!
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jul 22, 2009....
    what a bummer having two flats!  I can't imagine what a person would have to actually do to deserve two nails in two tires.  That's just plain mean.
  • UnicornForm said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Haha I loved the video. If there are any teenagers or thugs by your apartment, it was probably them having fun, forget about it!
  • Hegemone said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Wow, that would worry me too, but how bizzare the way the guy came out and asked that, lol.  That would have been a riot if your mechanic would've broken out into song though.  Hope whoever did it gets caught and I hope there isn't a second go 'round with this.
  • gingersoul said on Jul 22, 2009....
    BeyBey.....i know what you drive....lol.....it was you that nice guy?

    I love this movie too.....but i have never been to a midnight show....i would love to ...my ex sister -in-law used to go years ago....she had the best time dressed like Janet.....;-)

    Were you dressed up too?...;-p

    Super.....i have no idea....must be someone with real big anger issues.....i don't even want to know it, actually......

    Thank you...;-)..
  • gingersoul said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Secret.....imagine that...i didn't even think about reporting the fact to my complex office......it completely slipped out of my mind....i was too busy these days checking my tires anytime i got out of the building...

    Maybe you are right....i should tell them.

    I think i am in denial.....i don't want to really think about the possibility of a psycho emotionally instable weirdo going around here doing it to everybody..

    U-nee-k....i have no idea either......i think randomness is the key word here...it happened to me and it could have happened to anybody else...

    I just don't want it to happen again!.....i might start going around with a nail gun myself then...
  • gingersoul said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Unicorn......yes, that movie is greatness...lol..

    And about the teenagers...yes, there are a bunch of them around here....mostly hanging out at the pool day and night.....i thought about them first thing, actually...;-) 

    Heggie....i thought it was quite odd as well...i mean.....what kind of question?
    He might deal with fragile psycho people ...and he goes and insinuates such bad thoughts in their mind?

    But i believe he just wanted to be funny.....yeah.....not funny...

    I so hope no more surprises like this one...evah!...
  • moonriver said on Jul 22, 2009....
    ginger, do you still have the nails with you?
    did they look like old nails (as they would look if they'd been lying on the road for quite some time), or new ones (like what a nail gun would have for ammo)?
    like secret said, you might need to report the incident to the admin office of your complex, maybe even show them the nails, just for the record.

    but if i guess right, you need not worry too much about a psycho armed with a nail gun prowling around your complex.
    things like this happen routinely on the road by accident, and maybe it just so happened you got hit twice at the same time.
    so many possible explanations... 

  • hotaka said on Jul 22, 2009....
    Who needs enemies when you have vandals. If someone did do it on purpose they were just targeting any car. Kids these days. You can bet you won't be able to understand what they are thinking.
  • angelina9 said on Jul 23, 2009....
    I'm sure everyone has enemy but it dose not mean that we suppose to take this feeling with us . so i dont have any enemy cause i think that we suppose to love each other

    Angelina Jacob

     data entry jobs in london
  • MoonLiteRide said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Weird thing is the average up-to-no-good vandal generally does not tote around an expensive cordless nailer.  And yes, it would pretty much have to be cordless unless the vandal was also carrying a compressor and a very long extension cord.  More likely is that same devious kid carefully leaned a couple of nails up against your tires while you were parked so that as soon as you drove off, the nails sunk in.  That way too, your tires would have looked completely normal when you got in the car.  The nailer approach would have them looking flrat before you got in, you would have noticed.  Luckily, (if there is any luck at all) nails in the tread area of a tire are generally fixed with a plug, hopefully that's what could be done in your case. 

    All in all, not very nice at all for somebody to have done that.
  • alabamagirl said on Jul 23, 2009....
    At least you were able to make it to the car center!  I love the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show. 

    Lets Do The Time Warp Now!
  • CreativeWoman said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Maybe a construction vehicle lost some nails out of the bed of its truck.  It happens sometimes.  It might have just been a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    I hope that's the end of your tire troubles.

    CW
  • mobil said on Jul 23, 2009....
    If someone did this to you (which from what you say I don't think that's the case) and they were trying to be mean. Well they wouldn't have shot the nails into the part of your tire that can be easily repaired.
     
    They would have shot them into the side walls Gingerbread, if they would have done that, you would have had to buy two new tires, this is what leads me to believe you simple were driving in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • gingersoul said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Moon.....you know.....its the first thing i noticed...how the nails looked clean and new....
     
    Hotcake.....LOL......so true... a vandal a day keeps the enemies away...lol.....
     
    About today's kids......believe me......i know.....some days i don't even understand my own daughter.....;-D
  • gingersoul said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Angelina.....you are so jolie.
     
    MoonLite....wow.......you seem to know this stuff very well.....:-)
    Maybe have you been victim of the same nasty attention?
     
    Your explanation makes sense actually.
     
    Alabama.....lol.......yes, let's dance our worries away....you first.....;-D 
  • gingersoul said on Jul 23, 2009....

    CW.......uhmm.....maybe......just my luck, right?.....:-)

    Mobil....hey you {{hugs}}.....

    I needed to be vicioulsy attacked to make you leave that cave in Montana, uh?....LOL....

    I know squat about tire, my friend....i barely bring my car to her 3 months check up (last time i stretched it to 6 months). I dont  wash her (rain will do), i don't vacuum inside (but i try to keep it clean as possibel).....so.....my relationship with her i pretty on the side "I put gas in you, you work".....lol...

    Anyway, between the options i take "Unlucky driving on the wrong place".......thanks....lol.......

  • MsStar39 said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Ginger what a terrible thing to happen, glad that it did't cause you to have an accident or something, As sweet as you are, you can't have any enemies so it was probably a passing vandal.
  • gingersoul said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Ms.....awww......thank you!
     
    You just made my day!.......;-)
     
     
     
  • cuppajava said on Jul 23, 2009....
    Well,I doubt that someone like yourself would have any enemies...however a lot of what people have said about the whens and the whys makes sense.If someone were to do it on purpose,it would have been shot in the side and not the wall.But just to be sure,maybe you should report it to the people at your complex.You may or may not be the only one its happened to.
    I do think you are lucky though,with the guy who pointed it out to on the road.Had you have carried on,anything could have happened.
  • gingersoul said on Jul 23, 2009....
    CJ........i am nice, honest!.....lol....
     
    Now i am checking my stupid tires anytime i get out of the house and the office.....
     
    Maybe it has been a wake up call from my car.....she wasn't feeling the love anymore....lol....
     
  • ellamae14 said on Jul 24, 2009....
    uh oh. sounds like done intentionally. I can contribute to u. One guy who admitted to doing that for fun, told me how they do it. Sticking nails in someone else's tire. He felt safe confiding in me because I was then an innocent sweet 21 years old who wont say anything bad to anyone. Well, that was a lifetime ago. hehe.
     
    Contrary to what you think, he doesnt have anger issues. Just poor sense of humor and even poorer imagination. He couldnt think of anything better to do to have fun on his free time. They thought they were funny. crazy huh?
     
    Well, what they do is to aim a nail right beside the wheel. It's not yet stuck but it is position in such a way that when you start to drive out of the garage or your parking space, it will be stucked to your tire.
     
    He said, the effect won't be noticeable at all. So you could go on driving not  having your tire flat, as long as the nail is not removed or still secured to the tire.
     
    You must have been driving fast or got heavy load for the tire to burst.
     
    Just an analogy coming from the culprits of the same crime.
     
    Take it easy, it could be just one of those unimaginative people. Not really a personal grudge.
  • queenparanoia said on Jul 25, 2009....
    ginger: holy shit!!! not one but two tires!!! but i agree maybe some prankster did it...
  • gingersoul said on Jul 25, 2009....
    Ella......yes, i completely agree with you....
    Most likely it has been the action of a very stupid and bored teenager....

    Nothing to worry about it.
    Until it will happen again...
    If.
     

    Queenie....i know, girl! Damned two nails!'
    I have to shell out 50 bucks to repair the tires!

    Not a happy camper, let me tell you....

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