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captain queeg

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14. We used to call "dry rot" though I'm not exactly sure why
Fri Dec 8, 2023, 07:09 PM
Dec 2023

I put a couple used tires on my car just before I took a long trip. They looked fine and I didn’t know anything about their history. Did well till about the time we started the return trip. Then I started getting vibration. Soon there was a bubble on the sidewall. I can’t remember if it was one or both of the used tires but at least one of them got a scary bulge. We had to drive 1,000 miles on it. We had no money, we barely had enough gas to get home. As a matter of fact when we stopped get gas the last time we pooled all we had and asked for $2.24 of gas (I don’t remember the real number) but the attendant gave us a few extra gallons for free. We wouldn’t have made it home if he hadn’t. We were 17, gas was in the 30 cent range.

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