I can barely credit this for sheer bad luck and I don't know what else, other than wretched coincidence to account for this latest twist in the saga of what our daughter calls the black cloud hanging over her life. Our daughter's boyfriend owns and drives a vintage truck. He's proud of the vehicle, takes outstanding care of it, and keeps it well maintained. A week ago he bought new tires for the truck, and had other work done on it to ensure it would continue to operate as well as it has in the past few years.

He had entered the main highway headed for our daughter's house. The plan was for him to take her out to do her regular grocery shopping, which she had had to abort yesterday. Her own vehicle is temporarily out of commission, given that it was discovered the wheels hadn't been installed properly by the garage she had taken it to nearby where she lives, and one actually became dislodged while she was driving. That vehicle is in another garage, for repairs; the mechanics there had identified the problem being that whoever had changed her tires from all-weather to ice tires in preparation for winter driving hadn't adequately fastened and firmed up the bolts holding the wheels to the vehicle.

Partway on his drive, our daughter's boyfriend's truck stopped and became disabled, tipping the back downward as it slid to a screeching halt; he had been travelling at 60 klm/hr. Two of the back wheels had collapsed, one of which had separated completely and fallen off the truck spinning behind him onto the highway. If there's a ray of good fortune anywhere in this latest tale it was that he hadn't been injured. He is awaiting a tow truck. He called a friend who owns a garage, who advised him to take photographs of the condition his truck was in. A passing motorist had stopped to help, then having seen the separated tire, had gone back to retrieve it but hadn't been able to find the wheel itself.

He was advised that he had a law suit in the making for a compensation claim lodged against the garage that had obviously not done its work well. What's going on here?