Looking at my left front tire after coming out of the grocery store today, I thought it was looking pretty low on air. I figured I had better get some air in it before I went home. I stopped at this one place I go to where you dial up the tire pressure on the pump, add air to your tire, and it beeps when your desired pressure has been reached.
There were two idiots in front of me trying to get air. The first car took one kid with pants falling off his ass and an aging dude in white hair six minutes to fill up one tire on a Subaru wagon. Considering it was a Subaru and all that I am glad they didn’t use a person powered bike pump to fill up the tire. Good for the environment and all that…
The next airhead was in a van, skinny and older, wearing odd shoes and pants rolled up at the ankles. He seemed to have some issues bending down to remove the caps from the tire valve. He only did the left front and right rear tires for some odd reason and used a tire pressure gauge, despite the pressure reading functionality built into the pump, for the front tire but not the rear. It took him about five minutes to accomplish this.
When it was at last my turn to get air, I topped off all four of my tires in less than two minutes. Thankfully, the tire that I thought was inordinately low, was only down a pound or so. In the meantime, two cars had backed up behind me. I have never seen lines to get air except at ski areas. Bottom line though, how hard is it to put air in your tires?