New Tires

Dear Henry Albert,

Today I got tires. I had tires but they were old and started making strange sounds. When people are very young or get old, they also may make strange sounds. But when a tires starts to make strange sounds, it may be signs of a problem.

The tires I got are black. I had a choice of black or black. Why don’t they make tires in different colors? Like red? Or blue? Or why not a color to match your car? I chose black.

Tires are like wheels with rubber. Wheels are good. The convert sliding motion to rolling motion. Imagine try to drag a car along the road with all the metal stuff scraping on the pavement. Wheels reduce friction. Rolling is better than sliding and scraping. Some people believe the wheel was invented by an ancient Greek whose name was Murray Wheel.

Would it be a good thing if people had wheels instead of legs and feet? If we had wheels we could roll instead walking. We could get tires instead of shoes and sox and our feet probably wouldn’t smell so bad. (Kids shoes) (Purple shoes)

But what if there was some “stuff” in the street? There could be some “stuff” like “poop”. It could be from a doggie or an elephant. With legs and feet, we can step over the “stuff”. With wheels we would probably just roll over the “stuff” and our wheels would really smell bad.

Getting new tires is not very exciting.