When you put a tire on backwards....

...things will go awry. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

If you've been to our place in the past...oh, year or so, you should remember seeing an old dump truck parked alongside our driveway. It was used as a road block to keep large trucks from going down the wrong road when we were building my grandparents house. It was also used as a hunting blind, but that's another story.

Anyway, moving this truck has been on the list of things to do for quite awhile now, just never high enough up there to actually get done. And after sitting for a bit, at least one tire needed replacing and the batteries needed charging, which just pushed it on down to a lower priority. But we finally got a brand new tire and charged the batteries, and tonight at 8:30pm, a couple of guys decided it was time to move the old truck.

When I drove down the driveway at almost 10 o'clock, the above picture is what I saw. The skid-steer was lifting the side of the truck while the tractor was working at the back. Dad and Giddo were still trying to figure out how exactly the tire was to go on, so I decided to get a rain check for the card game that was interrupted and went home. A few minutes later I heard a very loud truck rumbling its way by our house followed by a much smaller truck laying on the horn.

So have you ever heard the noise an animal makes when it's really sick and maybe dying? Well did you know that trucks can make that noise, too? I didn't. Until tonight. As Dad drove by the house, Mom and I rushed out to the back porch, looking at each other like, "What is going on? The truck sounds like it's dying!!"And I think it was. Turns out, when you don't crank a truck up for 8 or 9 months, it has issues.

When Mom and I looked out to the trucks that had now stopped next to the house and the men that were getting out of them and frantically calling to each other, we noticed that the dump truck was missing something: the brand new tire that the guys had supposedly just put on. And there was a strange hissing noise coming from the truck as well.

To make a long story short[er], the new tire was put on backwards and had managed to fall off somewhere along our driveway while the truck was being driven...and we can't find it. The second tire on that side was leaking air so badly that the truck couldn't be driven anymore, hence the hissing noise, and had to be parked.

All we wanted to do was move the stupid thing where it was supposed to go! Oh well. I at least got a good laugh out of the whole thing. I mean, losing not only a dump truck tire but a really big dump truck tire isn't something that happens every day!

But I suppose the mission was somewhat accomplished; the old truck did get moved to a new parking spot. That spot just happens to be my volleyball court. Humph.