Ah, the joys of flats!
In another lifetime, I drove a VW Rabbit, fondly known as "The Death Rabbit" mostly for its propensity to suddenly lose all power while driving down the highway or in city traffic. It also had tires, at least in the sense that they were round and originally made of rubber... and because I was poor, I kept repairing them instead of replacing them. And changing flats, including on the freeway outside downtown Houston Texas during a summer monsoon downpour.
RE: Sometimes there is a magic to car problems, or maybe I am just an optimist.