Wrong Tires

Benbrook, Texas

Weather: low 21 degrees, high 32 degrees, clear skies, breezy

The weather turned cooler than we expected, and our outside water hose almost froze. It ran slow for a couple of minutes before it finally opened up like it should. I noticed that several other RVs had problems with their hoses freezing. The owners had set the hoses out in the sun so they could thaw. It would have probably been faster to take the hoses inside the warm RVs to thaw them out.

My last doctor's appointment was this morning in Granbury. After being poked and prodded longer than I cared for, the doctor pronounced me to be in good health. This last visit was to a specialist that our family doctor wanted me to see. The only thing we have left now is to get the last results of Carolyn's tests, but we won't have to stay here to get them. We had planned to leave this area tomorrow, but with the cold weather, we may wait another day or so to allow it to warm up a little.

Yesterday, I went to a tire store in Granbury to have a tire with a slow leak on the truck repaired. When the worker at the store went out to move the truck inside for the repair, he noticed something strange about the tires. When I bought the tires in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, back in the summer, I emphasized to the workers at the Sam's Club there that I needed light truck, load range E tires with ten plies, and pointed out the ones I wanted. While the tires were being put on, I asked if the right tires were being put on, and was assured that they were. Well, yesterday the worker who was going to repair the slow leak noticed that I actually had passenger car tires that were only four plies, and were rated for much less of a load than what we had been carrying. What?!! Needless to say, that was unexpected news. We checked, and all four tires were the same. It was a miracle we didn't have a blowout or an accident caused by these tires.

When I finished with the doctor this morning, I went to the Sam's Club in Benbrook and explained the situation. Sam's Club took full responsibility for the mess up, even though it happened in another state. I was given a full refund on the inferior tires, which I applied to a new set of tires that Sam's installed. You can bet that both Sam's Club and I double checked the tires this time to make sure the right ones were installed. This was a lesson I learned that hopefully will not be repeated. Can you imagine what might have happened if an accident had occurred because the wrong tires were installed? Whew!!

We met our friends Tim and Vivi tonight for supper at Pasta Fina in Granbury. We usually get together with them whenever we're in the area for great food and conversation. Tonight was fun, and we're looking forward to the next time. We enjoyed it, guys.

More later, be safe.

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