Bad Days

On Thursday I had a terrible day, it started off with a 9 a.m. practice and since it rained ALL night the field was muddy and nasty. After practice Anthony and I were headed back to our host house and while we were on the interstate a tire blewout. We finally get to a stopping place where I can change the tire and for those who don't know in a Mercedes you don't jack it up by the axel (that took me 30 minutes and for the car to fall off the jack 3 times for me to realize that). We get the tire on and start down the interstate, and we are driving 20 mph for 2 and a half miles because the spare tire is nearly flat and its wobbling some. We get to the tire place to get a new one, they can't get it in until the next morning so I wanted them to air up the other tire and see why it's wobbling. The owner comes to me and says, "We need you to come look at your car, it's not good." Automatically that's never a good thing to hear. I came very close to costing the Woodruff family a pretty penny. I found out that there are different lugs to use on a spare tire (they are shorter). They were surprised that the tire didn't fall off on the way there. I stripped the lugs and where the lugs go in (don't know what it's called but its expensive). If they couldn't fix it then I would have to buy new lugs and that part. Luckily, they fixed both and saved me sooooo much money.