Thread: Flat Tire In the Middle of Nowhere

So, this morning I got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere on a two-track dirt road about 10 miles from any house. Oh, I forgot to mention, in the Utah desert.

After getting the spare on I was afraid that I would blow that tire just to get back to a decent road. Give me a damn break, an SUV like the Ford Escape doesn't have a full spare? That SUV couldn't do Jack Shit.

To top it all off this was about 220 miles from home base. At least I could drive 70 on it... so I thought. I read the page that said that I could go 70 mph. Except, that was for the special spare tire that didn't have any writing on it. WTF!!! Why the fuck do they have 3 fucking different types of spares for one vehicle, each one with different instructions. So I found out that I was only supposed to be going a max of 50 mph after already driving about 180 miles at 65 mph.

Curious thing is that I don't know exactly caused the flat. It was just a crack with two smaller cracks branching off. I must have hit a rock wrong going too fast

To top it all off it is a rental car. Oh, and I forgot to mention that I'm not supposed to go on any dirt roads whatsoever. Don't tell If I still had that Jeep Liberty I would have had a full spare. They took that one away from me after I put 3,400 miles on it in 1 month. Unlimited miles... Use them or Lose them.

hehe. That's a lonely feeling. Glad to hear you made it back in one piece.

Same thing happened to a friend and I on the Denali Highway. There were piles of grizzly bear dung on the roadside. They were full of blueberries and we were surrounded by blueberry bushes. We expected a grizz to ambush us while we changed the tire.

I wouldn't worry too much about the speed rating on the donuts. You should come to Georgia. I've been on the interstate, at around 80 mph, watching a car (old ass honda) go by with TWO donuts (front right, back left)...

I passed him, quickly.

Wow, that sounded like a shitty drive! Glad everything is OK though..

I got stuck in the middle of nowhere as well once. All by myself, hung over, and not a soul in sight for miles. I luckily had a spare, but the jacks they put in Volkswagens are a joke. They aren't called the "Widow-Makers" by Vdubbers for nothing..

I got stuck about 2 miles up the canyon from here:

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Hop in a game of Scavenge yesterday and chose the Dead Center level. Game starts as my team as the infected and we do a decent job and only allow the other team to get 4.

So we then become the survivors and I ask my team what should we do. We come to an agreement(which seemed like the logical choice) to get the 3 on the bottom floor, then go up top together and get the last two. So 3 of us start moving to the far side to get those two, our third player decided to go of on her own to the short one.

While we grab the first two; I get charged, Ellis gets pounced by a jockey and all three of us were thrown up on by a Boomer. So I'm trying to tell the other player to come help us. By the time she does, Ellis and myself are in the red and the other player is in the orange. Then she goes to put away a gas can and gets taken by another charger and we all instantly hear 'CHARGER OMG CHARGER ON ME' even though I'm right there to kill the charger.

Right after I kill the charger I get taken by a smoker. What the the bitch do? Runs of to get a gas can! I'm in shock of how dumb she is. We end up losing of course and start as the surivivors for the next round.

2nd round we get the 3 down low fairly easy and two people head up top and I stay down with the idiot to catch them and fill it up. I turn to put in a gas can and before I know it the same idiot is yelling at me because she ran upstairs and got pounced by a hunter. I am able to kill it and she starts yelling at me 'Why did you leave me!!' I say 'We are suppose to stay downstairs you never said you were going up there'

We end up only getting five and she goes on this rant about how she 'has never had a team that couldn't get more than five cans and we all suck' blah blah blah. So when it's our turn to be the survivors she spawns as the boomer. She proceeds to run to the 3rd floor by two cans continuing to tell us the 'we' suck. After the other team has 3 cans I inform her that she has been standing up there doing NOTHING the whole time. By the time she gets her fatass downstairs we lose the round and the game while she continues the tell us how bad we are...UGH!

Ok, that's all. Hope you enjoyed that as much as I do.(now at least)

Originally Posted by ImmaRawrYou89

Hop in a game of Scavenge yesterday and chose the Dead Center level. Game starts as my team as the infected and we do a decent job and only allow the other team to get 4.

So we then become the survivors and I ask my team what should we do. We come to an agreement(which seemed like the logical choice) to get the 3 on the bottom floor, then go up top together and get the last two. So 3 of us start moving to the far side to get those two, our third player decided to go of on her own to the short one.

While we grab the first two; I get charged, Ellis gets pounced by a jockey and all three of us were thrown up on by a Boomer. So I'm trying to tell the other player to come help us. By the time she does, Ellis and myself are in the red and the other player is in the orange. Then she goes to put away a gas can and gets taken by another charger and we all instantly hear 'CHARGER OMG CHARGER ON ME' even though I'm right there to kill the charger.

Right after I kill the charger I get taken by a smoker. What the the bitch do? Runs of to get a gas can! I'm in shock of how dumb she is. We end up losing of course and start as the surivivors for the next round.

2nd round we get the 3 down low fairly easy and two people head up top and I stay down with the idiot to catch them and fill it up. I turn to put in a gas can and before I know it the same idiot is yelling at me because she ran upstairs and got pounced by a hunter. I am able to kill it and she starts yelling at me 'Why did you leave me!!' I say 'We are suppose to stay downstairs you never said you were going up there'

We end up only getting five and she goes on this rant about how she 'has never had a team that couldn't get more than five cans and we all suck' blah blah blah. So when it's our turn to be the survivors she spawns as the boomer. She proceeds to run to the 3rd floor by two cans continuing to tell us the 'we' suck. After the other team has 3 cans I inform her that she has been standing up there doing NOTHING the whole time. By the time she gets her fatass downstairs we lose the round and the game while she continues the tell us how bad we are...UGH!

Ok, that's all. Hope you enjoyed that as much as I do.(now at least)

Had the same experience on versus yesterday. Kid who admitted it was his first versus match, took lead over me. I dont mind taking a backseat to someone with a better plan. But to hear this kid say we have to check every room? Hell no.

So we kill all the SI, check one room, and then they all spawn again, and he bitches that they are already back. I let him know its cause he is taking to long, and he informs me to shut the fuck up and tries telling the other pubs im pissing him off.

I got sick of it and ran ahead, hoping he would get the idea. He didnt. (Yes I know it was a bad idea, so i dont want to catch shit for this.) I got pounced and died and he laughed at me like he was cooler than me. I was glad to be dead so I could watch him die. He grabs a defib and tries to get me to agree to his terms before he revives me. I told him to keep me dead, but he revives me anyway.

After I am picked up, he goes back upstairs. (This is DeC1, by the way) So me and another guy ran to the elevator. He starts ranting about he is pissed, and he gets smoked upstairs and begs someone to save him. I get charged and the guy woith me gets jockied. Spitter takes care of buisness and charger gets 4th guy.

One of my teammates proclaims the kid sucks, and quits. He tries to tell me its my fault we got killed. I told him it was his fault for going back upstairs. With one of my teammates gone, he convinces his friend to kick me. Never have I been more glad to be kicked from a game before.

Originally Posted by ImmaRawrYou89

Hop in a game of Scavenge yesterday and chose the Dead Center level. Game starts as my team as the infected and we do a decent job and only allow the other team to get 4.

So we then become the survivors and I ask my team what should we do. We come to an agreement(which seemed like the logical choice) to get the 3 on the bottom floor, then go up top together and get the last two. So 3 of us start moving to the far side to get those two, our third player decided to go of on her own to the short one.

While we grab the first two; I get charged, Ellis gets pounced by a jockey and all three of us were thrown up on by a Boomer. So I'm trying to tell the other player to come help us. By the time she does, Ellis and myself are in the red and the other player is in the orange. Then she goes to put away a gas can and gets taken by another charger and we all instantly hear 'CHARGER OMG CHARGER ON ME' even though I'm right there to kill the charger.

Right after I kill the charger I get taken by a smoker. What the the bitch do? Runs of to get a gas can! I'm in shock of how dumb she is. We end up losing of course and start as the surivivors for the next round.

2nd round we get the 3 down low fairly easy and two people head up top and I stay down with the idiot to catch them and fill it up. I turn to put in a gas can and before I know it the same idiot is yelling at me because she ran upstairs and got pounced by a hunter. I am able to kill it and she starts yelling at me 'Why did you leave me!!' I say 'We are suppose to stay downstairs you never said you were going up there'

We end up only getting five and she goes on this rant about how she 'has never had a team that couldn't get more than five cans and we all suck' blah blah blah. So when it's our turn to be the survivors she spawns as the boomer. She proceeds to run to the 3rd floor by two cans continuing to tell us the 'we' suck. After the other team has 3 cans I inform her that she has been standing up there doing NOTHING the whole time. By the time she gets her fatass downstairs we lose the round and the game while she continues the tell us how bad we are...UGH!

Ok, that's all. Hope you enjoyed that as much as I do.(now at least)

we can all agree we have run into the occasional arrogant idiot whenever we play. but if she wasnt with a friend, wouldnt it be that much easier to votekick her off? the AI may not be able to pick up gas cans but it would free your team alot easier and get rid of the little girl screaming in your ear