Car-Related Conversations...

I explained about the last little run-in I've had with my car.  Locking wheel nuts are quite pricey, it seems.  Anyway, I had the following exchange on the phone with an unusually frank mechanic...

"Well, you don't have to have locking wheel nuts... Ordinary ones would do.  I mean, you would have seen how easy the locking wheel nuts were to remove when they did your spare tyre..."

"Ummm... actually it took the chap two hours..."

"Did it really??!  Wow, so they do work then..."

I've survived without locking wheel nuts before... and given my propensity for losing things (like wheel nut keys) I might just decide to give them a miss...