we go to the closest auto zone on umm..17th in santa ana and using gus as my translator (whitey knows nothing about automobiles - or at least this whitey)we get brake pads for the front and rear of my glorious 2001 hyundai accent. We also get some kind of lubricant. As we are exiting the store we realize we needed to rent the piston resetting tool thing, we went back for that. then we went to my place and took a tire off and realized that two of the studs were bent so the lug nuts would only turn with great difficulty.
we went to the tire shop knowing i needed a tire anyways....we stopped at 2 shops in downtown santa ana. at one shop the fella said there were no used tires for my car and that a new one would cost "oh about fifty - five dollars" and we asked them how much it would cost to take off the studs and put new studs and bolts on and he said "oh about fifty - five dollars"...so on we go to the next place just down the street. i stayed in the car while gus approached the trio fine young men, i saw them looking towards me, knowing what would happen. RACISTS!!!! gus came back and they told him they had nothing for me. so on we go to big O tires near the target store on grand and 17th. we get there and the fellow helping me says they have no studs...so gus calls a kragen way the fuck over on bristol and edinger, they said they have 4. so off we gooo...
we get the 2 nuts and studs, the cashier has a lot of tattoos and she looks kinda happy...back to big O..well tell the guy, new tire..driver side right and 2 new studs driver side left....gustavo and i go to target to buy gummy worms, the sour ones...we go back to the tire shop and the car is done but gus notices that they put new studs on the right side...i told the fellow and he agreed that it was contrary to what i had told him....but they would have to order new studs and take care of it in a few days....i told them i would be back tomorrow...
it was close to work time for gus so we went back to my house and he picked up the sugar doggie and went home. i tookanap.
the next day gus came over about the same time, we called around closer places to get 2 more studs....nope...we had to go atfw back to bristol / edinger....then on the way to big O we stop at auto zone to get new rotors rather than have them refinished or whatever...then back to big o..while they are twiddling gus and i go to someplace nearbye and have some breakfast, the waitress - one of them - had great tits...the other one looked as though she gets beaten with a newspaper on the regular, as pretty as she was she was equally meek, made me sad while i ate my tacos....back to big O...then back home....
so this is where the shame of being an ill prepared person sets in, we search my garage and toolchest for a long time to find out that none of the ratchet head things i had fit...but happily enough my neighbor came home and he and gus found the right one in his garage..!!!! but of course with all good things comes penance and since gus is a goddamned sinner he got a lecture in morals and temperance from the same neighbor...in spanish...the only smatterings i caught were something about a brother being knocked down by a cow and receiving a traumatic brain injury..and that beer makes idle hands do bad things..this was said as gus was taking a swig from his blind pig...
"oje huero, cerveza es no bueno, tienes diablo!!!"
so we, and when i say "we" i mean "gus" changes both breaks and rotors, my only job was to spread lube on several parts....go ahead..make the joke....with minor difficulties..
so parts = about $111.00..oh and the tire cost $70...the running around was kind of a bitch but not that bad.....all in all gus saved me about 400 or so bucks, thank you friend.
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