My 1st punctured tyre!!I wish I was in the mood to take photos of it... but nope. Left the office ~5.15PM to meet my grandma for dinner. ~200M down the road, this driver from the adjacent car waved frantically at me and started pointing at my rear tyre. I signaled (thank you) to him and stopped at the side of the road. I was hoping that maybe my seatbelt was caught at the door.. or something lame.. but yeah... tyre went flat..
I drove at 30KPH down to the nearest civilization within Jurong Island (Read: Sakra - Where the one and only food court is) and decided to change to my spare tyres there. I was determined to fix it myself... but 2 nice enough auxiliary police came and gave me a hand... actually I just stood back and watched them do their thing... I did manage to loosen one nut. And in the process managed to cut my finger... not a deep cut, hadn't noticed until much later.
I thanked the guys and continued my journey out of the island. Was told I could get my tyre fixed near jurong point, boon lay. Headed there but the service kiosk was closed by then. Frantically called my resourceful uncle up and asked if he knew any place near by. Sure enough, he knew exactly where the tyre places were at the ulu west end of Sg. Headed over to IMM area and circled it a few times before turning into Toh Guan East where the tyre place is at. (my uncle told me just opp of IMM ma... how I know???) Drove into the garage and immediately 4 guys in mechanics jumpsuit started doing all sorts... one jacked the car up, another took the flat tyre out of my car boot and started mending it... One started removing my spare tyre from the wheel and the last one... well he was just standing there looking pretty. (He also sweat the most despite not doing anything). All done within 3 mins... (reminds me of Luigi and what's his face from "Cars" the animation) and a mere 8 bucks! I'm not saying that $8 is nothing... just that I had a much larger sum in mind... like a coupla tens... Oh well, now I know! No longer a flat tyre virgin! But then if it did happen again, I probably wouldn't be able to get the spare tyre up and running all on my own... sad case.
FartEd: Another way to meet guys... go get tyres fixed.. haha.
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