Good thing I guess

 Today is the first day I am officially off for the winter semester. Nothing due, nothing to do - or so I thought.

Last night I finished up work, finished up my very last assignment and then started down the road to an extra credit assignment for my pediatrics course. I queued up a podcast episode about maternal and infant mental health, went to the gym, and picked up L. We went to Costco and I dutifully asked if I could bring S anything from Costco. I got the things. We checked out. I took the bumpy road out of the parking lot (first mistake), and then the highway (second mistake).

While turning out onto King Street I remembered getting a flat tire with R in Mississippi back when we were dating. On the highway it felt like we went over something bumpy and then I realized we had a flat tire. We turned off the highway and made it as far as Northern Lights ABC parking lot before it landed that there was no way we were making it home. 

S came to our rescue. Changed the tire for the spare. The thing about spare tires is that you are not supposed to go over 50 miles per hour on them. The other thing is that you're not supposed to travel over 50 miles on them. 

So I dropped L off at school this morning and am at New Sagaya. Probably for the day. I don't know if the tire can be fixed. But that seems like the first port of call. The mobile tire guy is booked up this morning but between 1:00 and 2:50 they can come take a look. I kind of think it'll just be a case where, just like last time, I'll end up having to replace all four tires. Which sucks. But I'm trying not to be too...upset about it. I'm mean I'm not upset, I just wanted to, like, not have to do those extra pieces of coordination. I wanted a day to sleep. I wanted today to be it. I wanted to relax for a minute. *sigh*

But it was nice to know that S can step up to help us.