Sunday Morning Suckiness

The angle minimizes the appearence, but I guarantee you that this tire was quite flat.

Yes, this jack is small, and fits neatly into the trunk. It also cranks veerrrry sloooooowly...

Good ol' tire iron. Glad I remembered to break the bolts on the ground this time. Won't make that mistake twice.

The micro-spare! Sadly, it was low on air. Yiminy criminy.

Hey, it's-a me, Mario!

Yeah, the ground's good and wet. Yeah, I was sittin' on it. Yeah, that sucked too.

hee hee!

what is "breaking the bolts?" You can probably tell I've never changed a tire

So, this morning the wife and I are already late for church, as we got to bed late and forgot to set the alarm to wake us up. We schlep to the car and I'm pulling out when something feels very wrong.

Parking brake on? Nope, that's fine. Car in correct gear? Yep. Uh-oh.

Yes indeedy, we'd developed a very flat tire overnight. So, this morning, instead of driving off to church, I got to experience the joy of changing a flat in the rain. Light rain, but still rain nonetheless.

The spare tire was, unfortunately, low on air. I guess I should have had it checked or something. It got us to Wal-Mart, however (at a brisk 30 MPH), where I had both front tires replaced (they couldn't repair the flat). Yippee skippee.

Oh well, it was about time for new tires anyhow.

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Comments

parl says:

When Halloween is on a Sunday, sometimes you get tricked instead of treated.
I hope it didn't set you back too much.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

pwinn says:

At least you had an extra hour to do all of this!

Small consolation.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Rakka says:

what a sucky morning.

sorry, afroswede. :(
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

alida saxon says:

Geeze... crappy day. Glad you didn't have to get a towing or anything, though.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Afroswede says:

True that. Really, I shouldn't be whining. Lots of people all around me go through much worse.

By "breaking the bolts", I mean doing that initial turn on the bolts that loosens them to where they'll actually spin. If you do it while the wheel's on the ground, it works. If you try to do it while the wheel is elevated, your turning motion is likely to make the wheel move, which makes getting the bolts started that much harder.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

alida saxon says:

Ah... gotcha. That would be a pain in the rear trying to keep the wheel from turning.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

AmericanTechie says:

We all very much appreciate that although you were late you still took the time to take a picture. I guess you would have to since it was such a special moment. Since this happened to you when you were getting ready to go to church you might tag this photo with "divine intervention".
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Tine says:

eek, goodmorning Sunday
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

cycle60 says:

this is why i always keep at least one can of fix-a-flat in the trunk.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

The Rocketeer says:

When do we get to see a photo of the Afroswede himself? I've seen his shadow here and a dim reflection in this one, but not a true picture of the Man.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )