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Old 12 May 2008, 08:44 pm
Tegger
 
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Default Re: Missing lug nuts

"Pangloss" <optimist@pessimist> wrote in
news:F7-dnSmHe8OwpLvVnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@comcast.com:

> I pulled into a shopping center parking space right next to this real
> small Honda beater (I think a Civic that was so old it must have had a
> two digit serial number) and noticed that the RF wheel was missing one
> of its four lug nuts. The driver was in the car so I walked around his
> car to tell him about it, along the way noticing that the LF wheel was
> in the same shape. When I told the jerk in the driver's seat about the
> missing nuts, he told me-- in broken Spanglish-- to go F*** off.
>
> My question is how long will I have to wait until his wheel(s) fall of
> and he loses control of the car so I can see him upside down in a
> roadside ditch?
>
>
>




Probably forever. Three lugs properly tightened are sufficient to hold the
wheel on the hub. But your Spanglish guy is still a dummy for driving
around this way.

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