Personal Narrative: How To Fix A Flat Tire

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Being dealt with the task to further improve my adulting skills is one I have never encountered. While this might have been a much more difficult task twenty years ago because there was no instructional video, I learned how to deal with a flat tire. I have been driving for nearly five years and have never been in a car accident (knock on wood), or a single flat tire. I completed driver education in high school, but for some reason was never taught how to do it. So on a Saturday afternoon I researched how to fix a flat tire. Even though I didn’t actually have a flat tire, it can’t hurt to just take it off and put it right back on. During my childhood, it was evident that I was a visual learner. My mother, who was an elementary school educator,

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