It’s one of those extremely rare weekend here Daily Lexes.

There are a couple reasons.

One is guilt because I didn’t have enough episodes this week.

And two is life events that, you know, are fresh in mind.

So why don’t I tell you about them right now? Your Daily Lex What’s so funny to me is how when I’m working on apps, my podcast episodes become more infrequent or less frequent depending on your perspective.

I don’t know which one is the optimistic view.

But, you know, when it’s like, okay, I have downtime, it’s like, let me work on the app versus let me record another episode of my silly five-minute podcast.

So that’s why I haven’t been publishing as much because I’m working on my public-facing Scrabble-esque app, Tile and Error, which Apple still won’t review.

It’s been days and days.

So that’s fun.

And also working on an app that’s more for me that I’ll get into later.

So, fewer episodes.

Anyway, yesterday I had a scheduled appointment for my third car to get service.

Sierra likes to call it her car.

I do not consider it my daughter’s car.

I consider it the car my daughter drives.

They’re all my car.

Anyway, that car needed service because I checked it out after Sierra had said that she thought it seemed a little bit weird.

And I saw that it was, its alignment was off.

It was pulling to the right pretty hard.

And so we made the appointment and I was taking it in.

On my way, driving the car to the service center for the appointment.

And listen, I don’t like that I have these two Teslas.

We’re getting rid of one.

We’ve pre-ordered a second Rivian for their newer one.

We’re going to replace one Tesla and then eventually replace the other one too.

But both of our Teslas at least have unlimited supercharging.

So Elon has to pay for our usage of those cars, which I appreciate.

Anyway, driving the car in for its service appointment, when all of a sudden it’s like, hey, there’s zero pressure in one of these tires.

And that’s obviously not ideal.

It’s like pull over immediately.

And so I pull over immediately and I take a look.

And I’m on a highway.

It’s a 65 mile an hour highway.

So it’s one of those things where when you pull over, you can feel the insane impact of all the cars going by at high speed.

Anyway, I look and the front right tire is totally shredded.

Like clearly I have run over something just now that is insane.

And it’s horrible.

And now I’m stuck because I’m still 10 miles away from Tesla and I’m plenty of miles away from home.

And I have this shredded tire.

Tesla’s like many modern cars don’t come with a spare.

And like, what am I going to do?

I got to get to the service center.

And I hate dealing with Tesla support.

Not that I have, that car is no longer under warranty.

So I don’t have free Tesla roadside.

So I contact my insurance company, USAA.

USAA, you don’t even talk to a human when you’re going to get a tow.

You just go through the app and then they form out the towing, the tow wrangling, I guess let’s say to a third party company.

And in the past, when I’ve had to get a Tesla tow, it’s been very annoying because Teslas need to be towed with a flatbed truck because of how heavy they are.

They can’t, you know, be on a traditional tow truck.

And those can take longer to get sometimes.

And there was a time when I waited for a bajillion hours to get it.

Like literally, like I waited for, not literally a bajillion, but literally waited for four or five hours to get a tow.

I was like, that cannot happen.

And I was really annoyed and stressed and didn’t want this to be my day.

And then it only took about 40 minutes for the tow truck to arrive.

The tow truck driver’s name was Alex.

We got to Tesla.

Tesla was like, oh, when I get there, the guy’s like, you know, given that that tire was shredded, I bet it’s just a tire tread problem.

And it’s not really an alignment issue.

So I’m guessing it’s just that your tires are, you haven’t updated them enough.

And so that’s what felt like every time somebody says it’s an alignment issue, it’s really just your tires are wearing poorly or, you know, you haven’t changed them enough.

I’m like, well, I change my tires every time you tell me to, blah, blah, blah.

And then he’s like, it should only take, you know, 30 to 45 minutes.

And I knew that was not going to be true.

I had left my house at 1230.

I got home at 530.

And in between, I got to spend $750 with Tesla, which I hated doing.

One, to replace the tire.

And then two, because indeed the alignment was off and they fixed the alignment, which is good.

But he’s like, hey, your tires are all great, except for the one that was shredded, which they replaced.

The other tires all look really good.

And it turns out that, yes, indeed, you had an alignment issue.

And I drove that car home.

I drove it pretty quickly on the highway because I wanted to see if it was pulling in any way or if there were any issues, the shaking, all the problems that we’ve been having when I saw the alignment was off.

And in fact, they were all cured.

So, hooray for us.

Did I enjoy spending five hours or whatever dealing with that car?

No, but it was all good now.

And then Sierra and I went to see Lauren in her production of 9 to 5, the musical.

I’ve never seen the movie.

I didn’t know what the story was going to be.

And now I got to see the musical.

And the musical features Dolly Parton in it.

Dolly has video that you watch of her that she interjects into the show sometimes, kind of fourth wall breaking.

Very bizarre.

Anyway, good time.

But now my cars are fixed.

And, well, my one car is fixed.

The other cars were already flying.

And my other, our older Tesla, the Model S that we have, has more than 100,000 miles on it.

I don’t think I ever had a car with 100,000 miles before.

Anyway, that’s all I got.

Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.

Happy Saturday edition.

Goodbye.

Lex.