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We visited some friends in the country yesterday, which was very pleasant, as we got to enjoy a little nature along with the company of our friends and their neighbors. On the way home we were making a wonky turn from one country road to another when we heard a sound we thought came from bottoming out, until a little while later when we could detect the effect of rolling on a rim, because we actually had a flat tire. This was a first for me, but I've helped change tires before, and was pretty comfortable with the job. After getting the car jacked up on the included mini-jack and removing the lug nuts, however, it became apparent that the rim was pretty stuck on the hub, perhaps from the short distance it was driven with the flat. At this point I decided to get the dogs out of the car so they wouldn't overheat (in retrospect, I'm not sure why I left them in there while working on the tire), and a bit after getting them out, the car actually fell off the jack, presumably from closing the door after the dogs. After getting past the image of what could have happened if I had been working on the tire when the car fell, I noticed that at least this had loosened the stuck rim, and after getting the car jacked up again (this time with a real jack from a passing good Samaritan), and were able to get home safely as that car puttering along in the slow lane riding on one of those undersized spare tires.

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