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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding
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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (3735)10/22/2019 5:05:04 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 13801
 
You know I worked for the over regulated Germany's company Siemens AG.

Once a colleague took three of us to a weekend in Klagenfurt, Austria, in the border of what was about to become Slovenia. (they were still fighting there)

He was driving his brother's old SAAB and he had a tire puncture.

Friday early evening during Summer we didn't mind having beers while he dealt with the problem at the gas station. The tire was too screwed up to repair and he needed a new one.

(His brother used the old Saab only for Klagenfurt and vicinity, probably he wasn't that careful with his car)

He told that he had to buy 4 tires.

The rules were that if he had, say, all Pirelli tires, and the dealer at the gas station did not have Pirelli tires for that vehicle, he could not buy a Michelin or a Goodyear of the same specifications of the 3 old tires.

He had to buy all 4 new tires.

For me that was too much.

I always buy tires myself. And there is nothing more important for me in a car than tires first, break system second. I know that the brakes are much more reliable in a vehicle than the tires

I threw replaced iron rims (before alloy wheels became popular) as soon as soon as it visually showed too many counterbalancing and I used to drive in bad roads.

I am more safe having a safety mindset than buying insurance or using personal protective equipment.
It is the safety mindset that avoids accidents and deaths.
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