Small Nail, Big 'Splosion
Zack needed to drop his car off for repairs at a Dodge dealership this afternoon. Armed with vague directions from an employee named "Stick", I drove my car too so Zack would have a way of getting back home. While I was driving around the day before, I heard a faint clicking noise for only a few seconds that sounded like a penny or rock being rattled around somewhere in my car. Turns out it was a nail in my rear tire, which I found out when it burst open today on 85 North. Luckily I was in the far right lane close to an exit when it happened, so I pulled off the road quickly. Zack was following me and said he saw the tire seem to expand before grey smoke poured out and it ripped open (click the picture to see my poor tire). So we changed to the spare and decided that we were close enough to the Dodge dealership to keep on going. Several miles and wrong exits later, I called Zack and we decided to give up before getting even more lost (Stick's place didn't show up in any online map engines). "Let's just turn at this next exit," he said. As soon as we took the exit ramp, immediately to our right was an enormous inflatable purple ape sitting on top of...the mythical Dodge Dealership. How we wound up there, I have no idea. Quite the surreal experience. Anyway, I got a new tire this evening and there's no damage to the car, so everything is back to normal. I guess it was good that it happened this afternoon and not tonight when I'm picking up Andrew from the airport.
Thursday, October 14 at 3:53 PM
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