my spare tire is flat

No that isn't a play on words. It's something that I was painfully forced to realize today. I spent the night at my sister and brother-in-laws apartment in downtown Cleveland last night. As I left this morning I discovered I had a flat tire. If you've ever had a flat tire then you know the painful sound it makes but if you haven't let me describe it to you. It's like your car is dying with every single bump you hit. The smallest shift in the road and your car lets out an agonyzing thud. You know it's a flat tire so you pull over to check hoping it's anything else. Here's the thing, I know nothing about cars so regardless of what the issue was I would've needed to call a tow company anyways. Sure enough, right front tire flat. I call and the tow company (who is less then a mile away from where I was) who takes a half hour to get there. Oh well, it is what it is. The guy changes my tire in less then 5 minutes and tells me my spare looks like it needs a little air, charges me 45 dollars and then is on his way.

I get in my car headed towards a gas station to fill my spare just to be safe. He was not kidding...
I got maybe a 1/10th of a mile down the road before I realize I'm literally driving on the rim of my now flat spare tire. Flat spare tire, it sounds like the name of a really trendy band or a terrible situation. I was in the latter. I call the tow company who comes back, only 15 minutes this time, and tows my car to their garage, apologizing the whole way for not realizing the error in their ways.
After about 20 minutes they say they've patched up the old tire, inflated both the spare and the real one and that, in reality, I should get new tires because mine are pretty worn. They only charge me 15 bucks and apologize for the whole thing and told me they were sorry about my luck. To be honest, they were really helpful and pretty decent about the whole thing. What made me laugh though was him saying "sorry about your luck."
All and all I'd say my luck was pretty good. I've driven two cars in almost 8 years and, knock on wood, only had two issues ever really and they were both flat tires. My luck would've sucked if the tire waited to leak air on the highway or blew out entirely. It'd be even worse if it caused an accident. Also, to be frank, was he really THAT sorry? I mean, he makes money off of people needing repairs. He told me he felt bad that this inconvenienced my day which to an extent it did but has anyone ever NOT be inconvenienced by car troubles?
People plan an extra 15 minutes all the time for traffic but no one ever says, "Hey I better plan an extra two hours today because I plan on having a flat." When it does happen everyone tends to have the, "No, not today! Not Now!!!" feeling. Me, I'm taking the high road approach to this situation. Yes it was stupid, but no one was hurt, it didn't cost too much money, and the repair people were pretty nice.
And i mean, come on... who can say they've ever heard a mechanic say, "Yep, what you've got here is a flat spare"? All and all pretty funny. That being said, next time I get a flat tire I request the powers that be let it be on a day when the temperature isn't 15 degrees.

Have a good new years eve everyone.