Book Board Chat

Last fall, I was on a pilot trip into Montana, and I noticed a tire pressure notice for the left front tire. I had seen that earlier and asked the boss, who assured me he'd checked the tire and it was fine, and to just reset that notice (because it was obscuring the odometer, and we needed always to keep track of how many miles we traveled with the load. I did reset it, and then an hour or so later, the big truck ahead of me had a flat tire, so he had to stop and we contacted a road service vehicle to come out and change, then repair the tire. While the tech was there, I asked him to please check the tires on my pickup. He did, and lo and behold, it was the RIGHT rear tire that was very low. He said at some point they'd rotated the tires on the pickup so that now the reading was for the wrong tire! He aired up the tire for me, and I checked it frequently until we got back to Wyoming a day or two later. I explained it to my boss, who got defensive and said HE hadn't rotated the tires, and I said that really didn't matter; what mattered was that the right rear had a slow leak and it needed to be fixed. He didn't seem to believe me. Next morning, though, he called to say he had gone out and checked the tire himself and it had 10 pounds of air. DUH! The man does that to me all the time, as though because I'm a woman I don't know anything. And he argues!! But I'm usually right. And I did point out to him that I have a vested interest in taking care of whatever vehicle I'm driving (a 2007 Silverado), and that I would continue to call him if I thought something was wrong and to just DEAL with it. Pffffft