- after learning that the crawling in rust and sweating over stuck bolts >that I'm doing under the old car is worth $160 an hour.
In my youth a buddy and I would go out on the icy back roads before they were >treated to play, sometimes on dirt bikes. We had the tires and acquired the >skills for some degree of control on glare ice but very few others did and >sometimes the roads and especially hills would become obstacle courses of >stuck cars. I grudgingly understand why they are treated to protect the >least skilled and equipped of us. Not treating the roads would shift the >damage from rust to collisions with inept drivers. Apparently they don't >even learn not to brake while cornering in the rain. We have single car >accidents on straight dry level roads, my street included. I counted 8 sets >of tire tracks into the woods or median along ~30 miles of Interstate-grade >4 lane divided highway. The old 2-lane road had been known as a highway of >death with arrays of crosses at each intersection despite excellent >visibility in all directions.
- after learning that the crawling in rust and sweating over stuck bolts
that I'm doing under the old car is worth $160 an hour.
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