Hey Guys and Gals!
Since there are mud and snow tires, has anyone ever heard of fog tires? ;)
No, but that reminds me of my Uncle Bob's gas station. He loved to pull a fast one on folks. When some fancied up folks would drive in and ask him to check the air in the tires, he'd ask them if they wanted "regular" or "compressed" air. "Regular" was free, but "Compressed" you had to pay for. You'd be surprised how often people would choose the more expensive kind!
He once told a lady that she had to leave his station immediately because she had "tire worms" and he couldn't take a chance that they'd infest his stock. She became very vexed with her tire store, because she'd just bought them a week ago and she didn't know they were "infested". She asked Uncle Bob to sell her some new ones, but he told her he couldn't even let her car in his shop because the worms would spread, she'd have to go back to the tire store and have them refund her money.
He has a million stories. Fog tires sounds very much like something he came up with, but I'm certainly no expert. :laugh:
Fog tires, Lois? Would those be the ones with little lights all around them so the road can be seen? I could have used those one evening driving back from Wichita when the fog was so thick I couldn't see the center line or the line on the right hand side of the road. Was I ever glad to get out of that.
Joanna, that was hilarious! :laugh: Several years ago, when Don was working for Cessna at Strother Field (that's between Winfield and Ark City) there was a lady co-worker that several of the guys were asking her if she had her husband put on fog tires that morning when it was so foggy. The guys had her believing there was really was such a thing as fog tires, until she went home and told her husband. He had a big laugh about it, and told her different. (Those guys were laying it on so heavy, that shovels wouldn't begin to take care of it! And she was gullible) :laugh: :laugh:
Fog tires are probably popular in jackalope country, don't you think?
Do you reckon any major tire manufacturer will pick up on that idea and try to create a new market for fog tires? :laugh:
With the coverage we have, I wouldn't be surprised.
They started making jacklopes, didn't they? Seems we were shown a stuffed one in Idaho one year and were expected to believe it. Can't fool people that hail from the jackrabbit state.
And did you know that we still have jack rabbits in Elk County? I guess they are all over the Flint Hills west of Howard.
We used to see one out by the Green Ranch almost every time we went that way. Saw a pheasant once in awhile, too.
I remember that a lady once came into the store and her husband had sent her in to buy a "left handed" wrench.
lol
We sold her a standard wrench..explaining that there wasn't such a critter as a left handed wrench..
She was going to do some pretty horrible things to her husband , for tricking her, when she got home.. or so she said..
:D
My son always teased his sister about making sure she never ran out of blinker fluid for the turn signals.
Here's another one! One time in my high school English class, the teacher had each of us write down a topic on a piece of paper, then she collected each one and re-distributed them. And what ever topic we drew, was what we had to give a talk on in front of the whole class. Well......some guy wrote down a topic that pertained to overhauling an engine (I think it was) anyway, this girl (I won't mention her name as it would embarrass her) who drew that topic, knew nothing about it. She was telling us you had to re-spark the spark plugs! The whole class just roared with laughter.
I've never forgot that.