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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We had work done in our garden last year.  The workers were very thorough in their cleaning up, sweeping the drive a couple of times to get everything, and shovelling the rubbish onto their lorry.  When they finished I checked too and everything seemed fine.  Put my car back on the drive and discovered a flat tyre in the morning.  I can only assume the screw had ended up on the road and I'd driven over it.  Unlike Allotment Boy, the screw had managed to go through the side wall so I had a bill for around £100 for a new tyre.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited January 2023
    I fell out with the AA over this sort of thing. Driving along a two lane road, minding my own business, suddenly had two flat tyres on the nearside. I assume there must have been glass or the like that I couldn't see. I walked back and still couldn't see whatever it was, so it was small enough to be embedded in the tyres. Called the AA. Can't come out because it's two tyres. They would come out for one, but two is defined as a collision so they don't cover it. I had to get a recovery truck to take me to the nearest tyre repair place. 

    IME that clicking noise is usually a big bit of gravel in the treads. If you drive fast enough, it falls out  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Flat tyre is generally more of a rumbling sound.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    However if you hear a clicking sound and spot something metallic winking at you menacingly, that's another matter 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's another option
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    @wild edges love the Bender picture 👍 @Dovefromabove used to live nextdoor to a cat named after him!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @wild edges love the Bender picture 👍 @Dovefromabove used to live nextdoor to a cat named after him!
    my neighbours live next door to a Bender
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2023
    But I bet they don’t call you in for supper by shouting ‘Bender!’ down the street 🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    if there's supper on offer, they can call whatever they like. 
    Devon.
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