Flat Tuesday x2

Hit a pothole and some speed this morning on the way to work, and, sure enough, the tube went flat a few hundred yards down the road.

Front wheel, for a change. The one which requires one to un-screw the skewer a couple inches (some sort of safety feature), then battle one's way past the low-rider racks (which I never use, so why don't I take them off? (Because I'm going to bike Denmark, some day!)).

Replaced the tube with one that Steve the M. gave me the other week.

Pumped it up. Hiss, hiss, it goes flat.

>Insert your favorite curse words here<

Replace the tube with one of MINE, pumped it up, no problemo.

Only took twenty minutes. Probably some kind of record!

Later I thanked Steve the M. for the tube. He INSISTED I give it back, he is going to return it. I said, your lady friend FOUND that tube on the side of the road. Just because it was rolled up and LOOKED new, does not mean you can return it. He is going to return it. I accede.