August 08, 2004
A Trip to Discount Tire
It's not often that I could go to a public place and find something out of the ordinary. Actually, no, I do often find something interesting in a public place, but often keep it to myself because I'm on an odd wavelength with the rest of the people. However, this one day I missed what could have been the greatest discovery if it wasn't for my friend Dave who was with me.
I had to swing by a Tire Shop here in town to pick up a tire I dropped off for my new truck ( I had a blowout before I hit 2,000 miles). As we were waiting for them to find out where my tire was, David ask me to look into the tire shop and tell me what he found wrong.
Well, after pointing out it was very clean, they had water misters to keep the employees cold, and all the safety equipement was properly displayed per OSHA laws, he asked again to look and tell him what was WRONG (He doesn't realize meeting OSHA standards makes the rest of us have to comply as well).
I gave up on that whole thinking thing and he told me there were no Mexicans in the Tire Shop. Now, to explain how this makes any sense beyond a simple racist remark, you have to understand in San Antonio Texas, we have a good number of Mexican, Hispanic, Latino etc people living in the city, which is understandable since Mexico is only several hours away. However, as stereotypical as it sounds, a tire shop without a Mexican/Hispanic/etc is just absurd in this city.
Anyway, in this tire shop were about 20 well groomed young guys, all white. None of them looked scrungy, as a matter of fact they looked a bit too preppy-frat-boy looking for a tire shop.
If you ask me, the whole tire shop is a cover. During the day, these guys change tires, but at night, I think it's a Gay Club! It's the only theory I have. When I told Sarsmi this, she asked if I was going to go back, to whick I replied no way, as I am too "tired". "Wheel" get a"round" to going back there if I need another tire, but I better not drop the tire iron.
Ok, enough puns. Anyhow, I found it weird. No, not the fact there were no Mexicans in the tire shop, but that David actually put some thought into that and noticed it. Often you can knock him in the head and 5-10 minutes later he says "Ow"



