I Buy A Tractor Two Years Ago,

P. J. O'Rourke

I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. and in that manual, i found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. if you don't, you will oval the holes. this is buried between the moron warnings. i never found it. i take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. how am i supposed to know that? "it's in the manual."