russ54's Journal

Well I know I bee complainin about not understandin my 18 years old Learnin Disability... a.k.a.....audio/dsylexia...darn can't spell chit this moanin...

the team he works with  at this part time government job he got... well they don't understand my son and they don't like him... he moves to slow... he don't bend to their whims and bickerin...

He was kinda worried about it cause they wwas gonna have a meetin and he was like worried ... I told him DJ...this is why  you are in this program... just do ya best and don't worry about it...

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Well on his day off he ask me if I'd loan him my hardly davidson...(three wheel bike)  to go  to the Libary... Yeah sure kiddo just be careful...

Well he comes home... round five that day.. tells me he got hit by a car... he kinda scared..I'm gonna be mad at him... and no loan him the bike no more...O well I spin the tire...It has a slight wobble to it.. not noticable  at all... So I hopp my big butt on the bike after  complainin he didn't stop the fellow or get the license plate..Nuttin...just rode off ... then He explains the fellow hit him and just drove off reall quick like...

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Well I get to the end of the drive way ...goin to check the mail.. and I looked down at the right rear tire and it reminds me Of the Love bug ... the movie when Herbie was tryin to race Drunk... Dang tire looked like it was gonna come off plum...

AAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!...CHIT...!!!

LOOKY  MY BIKE IS BROKE.......

HEY KIDDO GET YA HINNY OUT HERE RAT  NOW........!!!!

YA GOT TO DO SOME BETTER SPLAIN TO OLD DAD... THIS AINT NO BUMP .....

tHIS IS SOME MAJOR DAMAGE..

Yepp   the shaft the rear wheels are connected to is bent.. the bearins on the wheel is makin a clickin sound when I coast......it don't squeak   ....help me... NO...more... it screamss......GET OFF......

Wat I'm  suppose to do with this  kid...

Well he starts this crappola about look at the Brite side.... Oh no ...there be no brite side to not bein able to ride my bike....

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Welll I fussed and fummed and yelled and fussed... and had a grand old harmonal dysturbance... while explainin that both he and the driver broke the Law by leavin the scene of an accident...

Now he was gonna be responsible to repair my bike outta his paycheck  yepp sure is... and the price to repair this cheepy might be less to buy a new one.. gee whiz  dang tire cost like 20 bucks... 40 if ya own a old swhin  with an odd size tire.. (I got an old swhin  three speed.... I had to replace the tubes.. and tires.. Ouchy...

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Tehn I split my beer... dang it all ready...  just one bad fur day..   looky that hair ball... gosh ... dang... ?

Mistakes are how we learn rite.......

So my son off to play his video game.. me I'm starin at my bike... so I turn it over and from where I'm sittin I aint got nothin to lost...I take that tire off the shaft... and watch it a few time as  i rotate the shaft..

I grabb my big rubber hammer... the one I use to keep my old computer inline... yepp  sure did... and when that shaft was just rite .... I smacked that sucker  real  hard...

Then I rotated it some more watchin the end as the bent shaft was not as bad now... so when it was just rite again  I smacked it again and again... and welll it aint perfect...

but it is ridable. again...

Put that tire back on.... kicked it a little got some the wobble out of it too... tightin up the bearins  nice and easy... not too much.. but snugg...

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So I got for a test ride... over to where the boy said that car hit him... Know what.. I dang near got hit by a car too... Fellow didn't even look just come high tailin it around the turn he was makin... me i swerved back to the curb... I had the walk lite... his young girl friend looks like she need to change her shorts.... Well like I told my son..  just let em go on by before ya cross the street...

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Well I just hope the accident don't discourage him from ridin my bke....I sure hope he get's his own bike soon... he likes my three wheeler... I'm gonna make him buy his own....then I'll have some one to ride with lol...

Well the  4th of July weekend is comin up next weekend...

Ya'll be careful out there.. Please  keep an eye out for folks ridin bicycles... three wheelers and them funky little motor scooters....

Have a safe and wonderful Independence  Day...

Russ