Tag Archives: parking

Local, Money

Guess I Need a New Tire

Heading out of the house and to the car, I just happened to notice the rea right tire seemed a little low on air. So I went ove to check it and didn’t see an nail or anything visibly wrong. But it was definitely low on air. The only place around here that I know with an air machine is the Thornton’s gas station. They have an air machine off to the side and they charge a buck twenty-five for about 3 minutes of air. If you have to pump up all four tires, be prepared to spend five buck in quarters at the air machine.

Anyway, I pumped it back up to 30 psi and went to work. At lunch I decided to talk a walk outside to the parking lot and check the tire. The fucker is running low again. There must be a nail in it that I don’t see or maybe a leak from the valve. I don’t know.

This is just my luck. I wanted to wait until November to get 2 new tires fro the car. Now it looks like I need to get one ASAP. I don’t like getting just one tire, so now I’ve got to scramble and find some extra cash to buy two tires a month earlier than planned. Ain’t that the way it goes? FML

Automobiles, Business, Nature

No Bird Shit Yesterday

The next chapter in my bird shit saga is good news. I parked my car on the east side of the building yesterday. There is a lot of activity on that side, because that is where the loading dock is for the whole building. There is constant traffic over there with delivery trucks and moving vans, so birds are less likely to hang around with all that noise and activity.

Just out of curiosity, when I left work I drove around to the south side of the building and noticed that there were several cars parked on that side that had white splotches of bird shit on them. So I think I figured out to park on the other side for a while. I don’t even know what kind of birds these are, but sometimes I see huge flocks of Starlings swarming in the sky. I hadn’t noticed any Starlings lately, but I haven’t been looking for them, either. We don’t really have pigeons around here, although there are some downtown. I wonder what the fuck is shitting on our cars in Cools Springs now?