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hippy
@Jimmy_Fingers
I had a pinch flat as I was coming down hill off-road on an old MTB, sounded like a gunshot and echoed through the valleys I was in. I duly sat down and switched out the tubes when another MTBer came down and pulled a skid next to me. I thought he might offer consolation or aid but instead he asked to move because, and I shit you not, he and his mates where about to ride down where I was 'being rad'. Now I wasn't on a trail or anything, just a hillside below a load of quarries and the like. Literally an entire fucking hill to be 'rad' on. So I did what any rational person would and took fucking ages, not moving a fucking inch. It was the slowest tube change in the entire of human history. The pump up was like it was on super slo-mo film.
[Edit] New page fail. Not a commute story, just a relevant one to what @hippy said