some people have no sense of humor.

Was it a Renault?

Renault are well known for wheels shearing off (amongst other faults) a couple of decades ago they sold the NHS a fleet of spontaneously combusting ambulances!

I don't know my cars vary well but I know it wasn't a renault, I think it may have been an old beat up honda.

Jamie

No. It was a half assed, lame brain joke that's trying to make fun of the song, "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille" by Kenny Rogers.

Right rear?

About a year ago, I was cruising down the freeway in the slow lane when I saw a mounted tire zipping along the side of the road, sans car at ~40 MPH. It was approaching a curve, so I figured it could attempt to merge into traffic without signaling, causing undue distraction and misunderstandings.

I put on my blinker and pulled to the side of the road so that my car was between the tire and traffic, just following along for a while.

The tire zipped up a recess in the curve, stopped and reversed course, back toward me. It rolled to a stop and fell over in the most comical possible fashion, about 10 ft. from me.

I got out of the car, put the tire on my trunk lid and drove backwards on the shoulder to a nice lady that had been driving a superannuated Honda that happened to be missing the right rear tire.

I put two and two together and figured that I was in possession of her property, vis. one mounted tire.

She opened her trunk and explained that hubby had been working on the car. I nodded sagely and offered to call for roadside assistance. She said she had already called hubby.

I carefully placed the tire in the trunk, smiled and left the scene.

What fun!

--Winston

Yep, some people have no sense of humor! Mikek

Reminds me of one of my technicians, whilst he still worked for General Motors, lost one of his hubcaps while driving in Michigan before dawn. Driving on down the road he found a damsel-in-distress... her windshield had been hit by a "flying saucer" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Well, geeze! Speaking of having no sense of humor! I thought it was rather clever, as a matter of fact.

One time, we had a gal named "Lucy" working in the drafting shop, and one day she was out of the office and the Diazo machine was jammed; I quipped, "You've picked a fine time to leave us, Lucille! Eight hungry draftsman and a print on the wheel!"

Some polite laughter ensued. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

It was the left rear on this one. I think the studs broke, you could see where it looked like they drove the car off to the side while dragging that one corner on the road to get it out of the way.

Jamie

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Ouch. Pulling to the right with no left tire is less fun than pulling to the right with no right tire, I'll wager.

--Winston

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Heh!

--Winston

I had seen this in Sydney Australia, except the car (seemingly suitable for a one-way trip to the junk yard) was in the middle of the road, with a missing wheel they had apparently retrieved by the time we had passed.

This isn't the funny bit.

The car had a sign on top saying "L" driver training or some such.

This bozo teaches others how to drive for a living. And then everyone wonders why the under 25s keep smashing into things...

Oh, but you tell it so well! :-)

Once, I was eastbound out of LA on I think I-10, and about two or three miles before the tangle at the I-605 and Cal. 60 there was a huge backup. As I got to the I-10/I-605 interchange, I knoticed a car about 3/4 of the way off the road, with the whole rear quarter panel sticking out into the traffic lane to cause a 2- or 3-mile backup on all

It felt like I had done a Real Good Thing, since I had to depend on that gracious big-rig guy to let me back into traffic, because it suddenly, an masse, accelerated to normal freeway speed almost instantly.

And I was wearing sandals! ;-D

Cheers! Rich

I happen to like Country music, and do enjor a good joke, but that so called joke has been crawing around since the song was released. Take a look at 'jamie's' website, if you want to see what Maynard is really like.

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Thank you sir.

There is some Math and Psychology in that phenomenon.

Good on ya.

The rest of us are too lazy or frightened to be of any help at all.

It *is* part of the uniform.

:)

--Winston