A bit of jugaad
What this country (USA) needs is a bit of improvisation from time to time instead of a programmed formulaic response to situations. Driving back from Michigan, we stopped at my friend Praveer's house in Cleveland. As we were about to leave, we noticed that there was a puncture in one of the tires. Fortunately, there was a shop nearby for tire repair and we went there. The guy at the shop looked at the tire and said "yes, that'll have to be replaced" and began looking at the other tires (which were fine) and measuring their tread marks. I asked him what he was looking for and he said "if the treads on the other tires are worn to less than (some strange fraction of inches) then we'll have to replace all the tires." I pointed out that the car had done less than 10,000 miles (why do these people insist on not using the perfectly logical metric system?) and that it was unlikely that all the tires were worn out and needed to be replaced. Now if this was...