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So I was on the six-lane elevated freeway about a mile from the bridge when I had a flat tire. Then I should have just kept driving because I did not have a spare and did not have a working starter motor. The problem now was I was just around a curve, stopped in the far right lane and cars were coming around the bend at sixty miles per hour. Some were having to swerve around me. So I thought I better run back behind the car a hundred feet or so and flag them over to the left. But then they were looking at me and not seeing the car. I gave that up and went back to the car. Someone could get killed here.
Driving without a starter motor was not exactly an accident; it was sort of a practice and a study. Not that one would purposely disable it, but if it went out and one was short of cash, one might not replace it right away. The thing was you had to push the car to start it, or roll down an incline was the preferable way to go. This meant that one had to find the right parking spot with a slope, and one where no one would park so close in front that it would not be an easy rolling swing out. The car was a stick shift so not much velocity was necessary to start in first gear. Only a couple of miles per hour would suffice and it was a very light car for pushing by hand. The concept here is really the finding of the parking spot.
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