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Date:         Wed, 28 Sep 94 8:58:28 CDT
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From:         mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com (Mike Busby)
Subject:      Re: stranded

> > On Tue, 27 Sep 1994, J. Walker wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Sep 94 19:41:02 CDT DZIADECKI JOHN said: > > >What I'd like to know is what could I have done had I been out in the > > >middle of nowhere without a spare sump plug and a tube of epoxy. Has this > > > > well ... basically: nothing. if something like that happens out in Nowhere, > > you are pretty much back to walking. this is why lots of us carry tubes of > > I've always found it humorous that with the thousands of things that can > go wrong with a car that will put it out of commission, we carry spare > tires. I don't get it. I've put on hundreds of thousands of miles in my > life, and I've NEVER had a flat tire on the road. It just makes me > chuckle. > > > > > -- > Gerry > Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@med.umn.edu> U of MN Med School Admin 6-5379 > >

You won't chuckle when your out in the desert in the summer in west Texas, 100 miles from the nearest person and can't get the lug nuts off because the VW dealer that rotated your tires used 500 ft/lb of torque to put them back on. Ask me how I know...

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