{"id":23460,"date":"2019-09-29T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23460"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T11:34:04","slug":"oooh-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23460","title":{"rendered":"Oooh! So Close!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 693px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 693\/197;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Nails in wood\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/nails.png\" alt=\"Nails in wood\" width=\"693\" height=\"197\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">I nearly went a full year without a single puncture\u2026 until last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My last lesson was due to start less than 5 minutes away from my house, so I hopped in the car and was met with the \u201cping\u201d and a warning light on the dashboard. I went round to have a look and, sure enough, the front nearside was extremely low. I quickly cancelled my lesson, pumped the tyre to the required pressure, and set off in the direction of Kwik-Fit. But then I realised the time was 5.50pm \u2013 and a vague memory of them closing at 6pm flashed up in my mind. I pulled over and did a quick Google, and I was right. Damn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tyre didn\u2019t deflate noticeably when I checked it late last night, but by this morning it had. I was actually quite pleased about that, because I\u2019ve taken them in before when the tyre\u2019s suddenly deflated and they\u2019ve not found a problem (aka \u201cpossibly a sticking valve\u201d). The fact it had done it twice inside a day meant that was less likely to happen this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I took it in this morning, and thankfully I was the only one there, so they did it straight away. It turned out to be the most pristine, shiny, straight-out-of-the-box-someone-just-bought-from-Screwfix screw imaginable that was lodged on the inside surface of the tyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve mentioned this before, but when the reverse around a corner exercise was still tested, and so you had to spend a lot of time perfecting it, some corners were deliberately seeded with screws by sad acts who probably also voted for Brexit. One year, I had four punctures in the space of a few weeks just before Christmas \u2013 all shiny new screws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I ever catch anyone chucking screws into the road, I\u2019ll punch their teeth in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, if you\u2019re ever on a lesson (or even if you\u2019re a regular driver), <strong>NEVER<\/strong> let your pupil drive over a bit of wood in the road. It\u2019s usually a piece of skirting from a house (or something similar) and it almost invariably has screws or nails in it, which the wood conveniently holds in an upward position. If you\u2019re lucky and there are no such screws, it\u2019s only because some other poor sod has found them first and they\u2019re now stuck in <strong>his<\/strong> tyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly went a full year without a single puncture\u2026 until last night. My last lesson was due to start less than 5 minutes away from my house, so I hopped in the car and was met with the \u201cping\u201d and a warning light on the dashboard. 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