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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 00:52:02 :
I put a pair of virtually unused 14" studded snow tires out front of my office with a sign on them, "FOR SALE $70". Guy comes up to me last night and says "Would you take $50? We just moved and that's all I can afford." I said, "Have you got the cash on you?" He says "My wife gets paid tomorrow." Today he calls me but doesn't leave a message. I call him back. He says, "I have a DOT tire book and I looked up the date codes on those tires and they're 9 years old." I said, "Okay, I guess you don't want them." He says, "My wife's not a very good driver and I don't want to take the risk with her and the kid. She already wrecked the car once when there was just a little bit of slush on the road." I said "I doubt it was the age of the tires that caused that." He said, "No, the tires were bald." "Anyway, I'm not going to take a chance on 9 year old tires. I'm going to buy some new ones."
So, yesterday he can't scrape up $50 for two like-new tires, but today he's going to buy new ones for $100 apiece because his wife's not a very good driver? I told him I run tires that have dates from the 1950s on them, and thanked him for calling me.
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