2 Flat Tires?!!

So I was driving home from Whole Foods last night and had almost made it when my car started driving all wonky. Damn it! I have had flats before so I knew what this was. Luckily, I was only a couple blocks from my house. So I pulled over, got out of the car and sure enough, my back tire was flat. Like totally limp noodle flat. I got on the phone to call my Dad to come and change my tire (Yes, I am a wimp and still call Daddy when stuff like this happens. The husband was at a meeting, but I probably still would have called my dad.) So I'm on the phone with him when I hear a whistling sound coming from the other side of my car. #^%@$%%^$!!! Both rear tires were limp noodle flat. Of course I only have one spare, so I knew this was even  beyond my Dad.

Luckily, one of my best friend's family business is Telle Tire. (And, although it was way after they closed I had his cell number! Nothing like bothering him with work stuff when he's home relaxing.) Aaron called his tow service for me. Naturally it was more expensive than a regular tow because they had to put it up on a flat bed given that the two rear tires were flat. 

So, I leave my car and load myself down with my overpriced organic groceries and trudge home. Luckily I had my canvas grocery bags with the shoulder strap. So if you saw a pack mule walking around downtown St. Louis last night, that was me. 

I just got the call from Aaron. In one tire he found a giant bolt and in the other was a gash so big that whatever had made the puncture had already fallen out. WTH? I was worried that I was driving around with a partial flat not knowing it, but Aaron sad that the punctures were so big that the tires would have gone flat almost immediately. I was driving on cobblestone at the time, so if I had run over something, I probably wouldn't have known it given the already bumpy surface.

The only good news is that A) This could have happened on the highway and I would have been totally freaked out, and B) I was planning on getting new tires sometime this month anyways, so it's not really a surprise expense.