flat tire.... (not the beer)

so I was driving eastbound in the fast lane on the 22 freeway, when I felt this funny vibration. at first i thought it was a rough patch of the road, but then it only got worse. i then began to suspect i had a flat tire and tried to switch lanes... this proved slightly trecherous... and i almost hit a car getting into the slow lane. but i finally pulled over onto the shoulder, hit the hazards, and got out (on the passenger side).

getting out and looking at my front left tire, i could see that i had completely blown it out... it was pretty spooky, b/c traffic was zipping by and here i was hanging out looking at my tire. i decided i couldn't change it myself, so i'd call AAA to come out.

i called AAA and got in my car and waited... it was not too long before the guy showed up in his truck with the blinkers going flashing all over. he gets out of the truck and i swear the dude is a total carnie type... he just walks right over to the tire with little regard for the oncoming line of 80mph traffic and checks out the tire.

i told him he was crazy and he looks at me and says.. "Look Matthew (he had looked at my AAA card), if your luck is so bad that a car veers over here and hits us, you were meant to go." I looked at the generous foot of space between him and oncoming traffic and had my own opinion, but I just agreed with him.

anyway, we started getting the tire out and all the equipment we'd need, when we had a slight emergency. turns out that vw has a security key for their lug nut and we could not find it for the life of us. turns out vw stuck it in this total inoculous pouch in the toolkit... that was so not obvious. anyway, once we had that, things were good and my tire was quickly getting changed.

i tried to look non-chalant and snap some picts with my phone of him and his proximity to the traffic, but none turned out and then he started looking at me weird, so i stopped. oh well... at least my car got fixed for now, and i can get the tire properly fixed in the morning.