Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6191693-20131230040409/@comment-6191693-20140113213516

So, last night, on my way to the grocery store, I had to swerve to avoid getting hit by a car changing lanes without looking, causing me to strike the edge of a rather sharp curb with my front right tire. Screaming obsenities and figuring my alignment was almost surely fucked up, not ten yards farther did I realize that my tire had gone flat. I stopped to check and saw a huge hole in the sidewall. I needed new tires in the front anyway, but was planning on waiting until after I sold my Chevy.

Figuring I'd just go and get a pair of used tires after work today (the tire shop was already closed and would not be open until after I went to work), I slapped the donut on it and hoped it would hold up on the highway, which it explicitly recommends against. It's not like I had a choice, though. Well, it held up fine, but, when I got off work, I came out to discover that the fucking donut was flat! I looked and noticed that the little cap covering the valve stem was missing; it hadn't been that morning. Someone must have let the air out as a prank or something. So I limped to the gas station around the corner to fill it up at the air machine and crossed my fingers that it was just a prank and not actually leaking. Then it started raining. While I was driving with one bald tire and one very questionable donut. For forty miles. On the highway.

I made it safe and sound, but man, was that stressful.