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smile and nod

went to get my car fixed. Mechanic: what seems to be the problem Me: It sounds “sketchy” Mechanic: lmao…

I like learning. Weather its how to do this sort of thing, or anything. Just hands on training, and when you smile enough people just tend to teach you, and its good to know. I just like to learn myself, be involved and initiative just by smiling and paying attention.

Knowledge is valuable I learned how to change my own oil, headlights, spark plugs, hands on training with each individual process.

Kinesthetic learning is not cheap just some asshole decided to market it and make it into a school or type of “training” but time isn’t cheap either.

most people don’t have the time to explain or walk through what work they did. Thats okay not everyone is trained to do that. but in some cases that usually means they don’t have the patience to do the work well, so they use a power drill to cross thread a lug-nut or two on a front tire.

genius.

You learn quickly the second you know that priorities are limited in each individual no matter who you meet or where you meet them.

so when I’m left stranded, nonchalant with some tire place saying “pay for a tow” when the fucking curbs in this god forsaken town shouldn’t be ten ft’ anyway, (especially in a pharmacy parking lot where they think every god damn piece of property there is the fucking Hilton, fuck westchester).

Anyway, With the car that I have there’s only 4 studs for the lug-nuts to go onto and two were immediately stuck. Cant drive on the flat because its flat. *cough* And the last thing I needed was to be involved in some awful over priced tow truck shit show.

Sooo I only had one option, start cracking some nuts off.

Cracking two studs on one side means that

1) it’s entirely dangerous to drive that car at all

And 2) how the hell do you even put a doughnut on it

well desperation prevails.

this is what we call fracture mechanics boys and girls, the stress needed to fracture DIN/ISO Grade 10.9 and using weight and temperature to cause a fracture. because wheel studs are made out of din/iso apparently.

And when you’re an 90 lb twenty something year old woman, you might need some leverage. Like perhaps a large piece of that stupid fucking curb along with a tire iron to use as a lever to put stress up on that stupid metal piece of shit composite that makes up the stud. Lets see we have carbon, manganese, sulfur, silicon, chromium, molybdenum and nickel like most composites all in the iso blueprint online. how resourceful. the internet. bless.

About a half hour of me cursing and stomping on the tire iron and then that beautiful snap. And I went onto the next one because I know 100% that if I got it towed they would’ve laser cut this garbage for $500 more on top of the bull shit tow cost so no.

When the second one snapped, out of pure luck, in just some amazing way, the stud broke just enough that I could fit on the doughnut. just so slightly and hours later after calling the tire company I made it.

Seeing as with only a tire iron I was able to snap two lug-nuts off the shop owner immediately didn’t want me to snap his. So I just gave him a smile and nod and asked kindly if he could also show me how to thread a lug-nut through…

Research helps too.

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