im a idiot!@!!

[Wickedfinger]

Tim, my friend Keith did the same exact thing with his Monte Carlo. We felt a wobbling followed by a bad vibration - then right as we went to pull into an Arby's to check it out (at about 100mph I might ad because Keith didnt know the meaning of speed limits) - CRASH!!!!. The front drivers side tire fell off and as we skidded to a stop on the disk brake rotor - we watched as the tire carrened across the parking lot and completely destroyed the drivethrough speaker and lighted menu. The funny thing is - we were able to retrieve the tire and remount it using three of the other tires lugs - without the Arby's people even knowing what happened to their sign.

[350XXX]

i had my bronco realigned a few years back and i had been driving it for two weeks and the alignment went bad. i was going to take it back to them on monday to fix it, BUT on the way homw sunday night i noticed that it was not coasting well so i pulled into a parking lot and noticed that they hadnt tightened the tire rod end back up. damn thing fell out in the parking lot. thank god for autozone. fixed it in the parking lot myself.

[groundfly]

well, today after a long hard day of riding i came back missing my muffler and my foot lever for the brake is broken and hanging down, also broke the left back part of my plastic... i just got it and im killing it..lol

[eh_tee_see]

haha, last week, i was working with my friend on his 185, and he is the worst mechanic ever, i tell him to go get the nuts for the rims and so he goes and gets 4 customary nuts lol, i let him put them on and then we brought it to my house. couple days ago i was driving home from school and the thing is wobbling like heck and im like... oh crap.. then my back end drops to the ground and my tire goes flying past me. i put it on two wheels and rode it into the ditch... and i swear mason is the worst mechanic ever. just a few more things hes tried to pull: put a 200 cylinder on a 185, put a slow jet in for a main jet, put the pulser on backwards( i ask him what he thinks hes doing and he says ah heck its good enough it doesnt need to be perfect hahahah)

[cyclepsycho]

well, me and my buddy did some hardcore riding today, and we were heading back to the house to grab a watch when all the sudden my wheel and tire begine to wabble and flail like crazy. well it comes all the way off and sends me almost into the ground. come to find out all my nuts are gone and the wheel is on the ground, ME the super moron forgot to tighten them when i swithched tires yesterday, they were kinda toght but i did'nt go back and torque em down. so i took two off the other side, with my fingers!!! and put them on that side and rode very slowly back, stopping every 100 feet to retighten them by hand. like i said..i am an idiot.

I just finished reading this thread and figured you may like a more realistic opinion.

Many of the responsess to this topic can be classified as feelings. These require less thought than an actual opinion and are generally more "heart-felt" than academic. Many are "knee-jerk" reactions to your situation and some are quite humerous.

Other opinions given on this topic were muddled by emotion and quite apparently were toned down to be more what they thought you would want to hear instead of perhaps what needed to be said. Others were toned down to be what some thought others on the forum would want to be said.

Yet, other responses were merely relations of similar feats performed by others in an atempt to build comraderie.

I am a post graduate student of psychology. Since I am not working in the field yet, I can not give a "professional" opinion, but I can come fairly close.

After careful consideration of the facts that you have shared with us, and based on my education, and the experiments and research I have performed, my learned opinion is:

Yes, you are an idiot.

Rob

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.