The Day The Curb Hit Me

Here's a funny story.... I was driving home from the gym on Tuesday night, just going about my drive, not talking on the phone, or playing with my iPod or the radio or anything and then I felt it, "Ba Boom." The curb just jumped out of no where!!! I swear I didn't see that curb at all. And wouldn't you know it, that rather large boom POPPED the tire. I was lucky that I was no further than a quarter mile from our driveway (see map below) and I luckily puttered back home on my quickly deflating tire. This also means that I have driven past that same curb every single day, multiple times for the past 4 plus years and probably should have had more awareness about a curb on the side of the road.

I do not think that Mike would have been too happy about coming to retrieve me somewhere because I hit a curb and had a flat tire somewhere. I pulled into the driveway and proceeded to show him my latest damage that I had caused, needless to say he was not too pleased with my little mess. I also thought he was going to make me attempt to put the donut on the car myself but thankfully he got up Wednesday morning and put the donut on for me!

So along I went on my donut tire down to the Acura dealer to get a new tire. Thankfully when we purchased my car, Mike decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and purchase the tire insurance/protection plan. He must've have known I might do something like this. Mike told me the night before that the plan doesn't cover stupidity like hitting curbs, but I beg to differ. I simply told the girl it was a road hazard, which it was, curbs are road hazards too. And it paid for a shiny new tire. Good thing too, otherwise it would have been $235 for a replacement. If I hit one more curb (which is entirely possible) I'll have gotten more than our moneys worth out of the insurance plan.

In the end, I look at it this way I was just getting some of our money back that we spent on the insurance so it wasn't a total waste. I got a shiny new tire and a car wash, so my car is now cleaner than it was before Tuesday night, all in all, I look at it as a win! Here's a picture of  my shiny new tire (front passenger). I should've gotten a picture of the before and after but it was dark when I popped the tire.