Wednesday, April 30, 2025

NANOPRIMO APRIL 29, 2025 A Tiring Adventure


  

 

A Tiring Adventure

This morning my car greeted me with 

one of those mysterious dashboard icons

    Not the submarine icon

    Not the "left your headlights on" icon

    not even the "better get gas now!" reminder.

It was that squished bubble with exclamation point proclaiming tire trouble

perhaps a pothole, nail, or rock creating an escape of air

a warning to hit the air pump as soon as safely possible.

Three tires were fine, but the last one was 

a pancaked rubber circle, wheel cover almost touching the ground 

    suddenly I was aware

    that in all my years of driving

    I had never had a flat.

Now my dad had made sure that could I change a tire on the side of the road

but the air pump gave me some time to get to tires 'r us

to find out, yes, a nail, but also

dry rot on all four tires.

Low mileage works for some things, but years account for more, as now I sit here 

    writing about how a nail in a tire

    became four new tires

    and a ride down memory lane.

©Noreen Braman

 




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