Flat tyre

First *horrifying* experience of a flat tyre on the M5 yesterday….
My poor nerves! Cars & trucks whooshing past at 110kph as we put on spare tyre….
Then the (mild) embarrassment of having to drive at 80kph the rest of the way into Sydney due to silly excuse for a spare tyre that car manufacturers give you these days*. Suprisingly, given Sydney's many impatient, intolerant "why the hell aren't you doing at least the speed limit?" bumper hugging drivers, I only got half-honked at once!!

Couldn’t help but think “that’d be right” when my tyre went flat. Funny that – you feel flat, then you get a flat tyre – kind of like your energy materialising itself in an event. If these are the rules of the universe, whatever can I expect to happen next?!!!

* spare tyre is smaller and harder than normal wheel, and you can only travel at 80 kph and for a certain distance. ie the spare tyre is only designed to get you as far as a tyre shop. Really irritating if you don’t have time to deal with it on the day your tyre chooses to get a puncture and go flat. As Cheese says, cars are evil, expensive pieces of junk.