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Deflated and Neglected - I have at least 1 thing in common with this tyre
But all the same I'm still down in the dumps. Maybe not as much as yesterday, but still I can see the bottom. Which is good I guess, because once you hit the bottom there is no where to go but up. So thats got to be positive right? Well see I suppose.
I've done sod all today apart from go the gym, where uncannily I meet another person who starts chatting to me to lay some words of wisdom upon my disheartened ears. This time it's an old man who says that he used to have a French Au Pair (nuff said) who was once as big as me, but kept working at it down the gym and managed to become a very svelte and fit (his own words) person. He told me to keep at it and the rewards would pay off which were kind words from a stranger.... I don't know, 2 similar incidents in 2 days, I think there is a conspiracy going on or something like that! But it has made me more motivated so I guess it can only be for the better of my own sanity.
The afternoon is slightly tarnished when I get an email requesting shed loads of money for an enterprise I'm running at the moment, which made me gulp with despair, think about the problem some more then realise that perhaps someone has got their sums wrong, which thankfully was the case so it's not as bad as I thought it would be. It never rains but it pours when it comes to my finances, it's like the big bird of debt has just doo-doo'd on my head again, it seems to fly over every couple of months these days.
So I need to spend money relating to the email, and of course perhaps on a new tyre too - though that might not be as bad as we first thought. We checked the pressures on all the tyres on my car tonight and they were all shockingly low, so it may well be that the puncture warning has come on because the pressures were all screwed up. So we've pumped them up to their proper pressure tonight to see if they lose anything over the next 24 hours or so. If they do then perhaps we do have a puncture, but there might be the slightest chance that due to neglect the car was just screaming out for some air.
After a couple of hours we can't resist going to see if they have lost any pressure and so far so good, they seem to be where they were when we re-inflated them. So now we have 2 possibilities, a slow puncture or just a glitch which has been fixed when we got all the tyres at the pressures they needed. I'm seriously hoping on the latter.
Posted by Abi on the June 1, 2006 9:46 PM
Do they put special, use once and throw away tires (sorry, tyres) on BMWs?
Otherwise, I'm wondering why punctures, slow or otherwise, can't be fixed. At least, that's what we do when we get a flat.
Anyway, I hope things are looking up and you are feeling better as you work out and become the next, ummm, Paris Hilton. Or something.
Aloha - Dan