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2naSalit

(93,142 posts)
3. Small town goodness...
Mon Oct 30, 2023, 10:37 PM
Oct 2023

I had a good one a few months ago. I was one my way to a friend's place about 90 minutes from my place and I had planned to stop in a smaller town on the way because the gas was cheaper there at the truck stop. I also needed to check my oil as I suspected I needed to add some but I couldn't get the cap off. I'm sort of short and the vehicle is a 4WD Toyota, I can reach the cap but I can't get any leverage on it. I asked a guy near me to see if he could get it but he couldn't either.

At this point I knew of a shop I could stop in and ask for help further into town and figured I'd go there as the guy suggested I go there.

At the shop the guy came right out and got a big wrench thing and popped it right of, he was pretty tall, and wouldn't take any cash for it. I smiled and said to him and the other guy hanging around that this is what I loved about living in small towns.

And I was on my way, blew a half hour but I was in no hurry.



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Recommend sheshe2 Oct 2023 #1
I had a condo on Wells Beach. I wish I could have afforded to keep it. 3Hotdogs Oct 2023 #2
Grew up in Saco - Biddeford Pool. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #4
Small town goodness... 2naSalit Oct 2023 #3
A strap wrench, amirite? OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #5
That's what it was! 2naSalit Oct 2023 #6
It's one of those amorphous tools that come in quite handy. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #9
So that's what those things are! ShazzieB Oct 2023 #11
lucky to survive being on the street in maine these days nt msongs Oct 2023 #7
Do you really think I think like that? OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2023 #8
How do you mean? nt ramen Oct 2023 #10
Uyah! modrepub Oct 2023 #12
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