I really had a nice bike ride going today. After several days of crappy weather, today was less crappy. Actually at the end of my bike ride the sun came out. Atleast it didn't rain during the day.
Anyway the sun must have scared my tire into getting a flat.
I've mastered the ability to fix a flat, but decided that I would rather walk, or get a ride from family on the 2.5 miles left on my ride to get home then to take the time to fix the flat and waste money using my canned air for emergencies (it works once and then it is gone) on such a short ride back. I'd rather save it for when no one is home and I'm 20 miles away...with a thunderstorm headed towards me.
I thought for sure that I could catch a family member at home on one of four possible phone numbers and that I would get a ride back.
Of course that didn't happen. Three cell phones rang and rang and no one ever picked up and the house phone flat out didn't work. The number wasn't in service or something like that.
Can you believe that in 2011 that I couldn't get through to my family members in a semi sort of emergency?
With no one to hitch a ride from I just had to walk with my bike for 2.5 miles. I think it took me about an hour to get back. My mom thought that I had been cycling for a while...
When I got back I fixed the flat so I will be ready for a ride tomorrow.
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