The city of Austin has a crew who drives around and finds a good, solid unblemished spot of pavement ina heavy traffic area and then digs it up or something equally noxious. Sometime over the last couple of days, they grooved a pretty sharp curve which I discovered today. I don't usually get upset at grooved payment anymore BUT today on my original Bridgestones, that curve raised the pucker factor for about 20 seconds. The darn tires are at 7500 and wearing like iron and I haven't budgeted for new tires-was going for the Progressive's first. Those tires are really, really bad on wet roads. I may have to reconsider.