Got Iron Got Grief

This morning we got up at 2:45 because we were going to pick up a lady who needed to go to the hospital in Manila because her lungs are full of fluid and she's really sick.We needed to go anyway so said we could give them a ride.At the hospitals here it's first come first serve so you have to go early to get in line to see the doctor. So on the way to her house at 3:30 we ran over something on the road in the dark and when we got to her house we had a flat tire. Well we had a different vehicle because we took our car in for service last week and they gave us a loaner for a few days.When we went to use the jack there was an extension for the handle missing so we had to lay underneath and use a wrench to operate the jack and it was really hard and slow.One of their neighbour's had just got home from work so he came and helped us. The missing tool was also what we needed to get the spare out from under the van so the friend said there was a guy in the area who could fix tires.So we loaded the tire, the friend, the lady's husband and me all on the friend's motorcycle; woke up the tire guy and he tried to fix it but he mostly fixes motorcycle and bicycle tires and didn't have the stuff to fix a tubeless car tire. We then decided to see if we could somehow get the spare out and after about a half our of struggle we got it only to discover that it was flat.Whoever had it before us had hit something really hard and the rim was broken and the hadn't reported it to the maintenance people.Then we thought we could take the good tire and put it on the good rim so we loaded all on the motor cycle again and went back to the tire guy. However he didn't enough tools for the job so we were hooped. Then the tire guy russelled up some strips of rubber and stuffed them in the hole of the tire with a screwdriver and believe it or not it was just barely leaking so we quickly put it on the car and headed for a proper tire shop. When we got out to the main road to turn left there was a jeepney in the middle of the intersection loading passengers so I turned behind him to turn left but a big truck behind us wants to turn right and there isn't room so the jeepney backs up- right into us! Nice dent in the fender. Anyhow we finally get the tire fixed and get underway about 2 1/2 hours later than we expected.Sounds like some of my lucky days at home!