Tore an inner sidewall on the crappy spare I’ve been using – that’ll teach me to get tires fixed when I can, because now I’m stranded. What with one thing or another I had a nice five-mile walk through broken country which left me very, very sore. Plus the Jeep is down until I can get a tire repaired in town. Not the spare with the torn sidewall, of course: That was toast even before I drove two miles on the rim. I tried to temporarily plug the small tear with my can of “Plan C” fix-a-flat, which did no good. I hate that stuff and would never use it on a tire I care about at all.
The above paragraph made a mess of trying to make a short story out of a long one because I’m in rather a state right now. If I’d known it was going to happen I’d have worn one of those nice gelsocks with my prosthesis. As it is, I’m just kinda lame. It’s happened many times before, and I’ll get over it.
Oh darn… get some rest, my friend. And I hope you have a little sippin’ medicine around too. Grab a wee dram, a good book, and scratch Ghost behind the ears a little. That’ll fix you up. 🙂
Look on the bright side. No, really! At least it didn’t happen in the wintertime.
Bad things never happen at good times. I hope you manage to get some down time before you tackle this unwanted project. Anyway rest and be well.
Maybe add a gelsock to your carry everywhere emergency kit, kind of like you never go anywhere without your knife and your gun. Take care of yourself.
Zelda, that idea never occurred to me before yesterday, but I’m going to do a variation on it. I can’t carry an extra gelsock with me everywhere I go, but I can bag one up and store it in the Jeep.