-decide to take street car home, no idea what cash fare is. Get on, ask if it's still $2.50. I only have $2.50. The price is now $2.75. I start telling the driver that I don't have enough and my front wheel was stolen, I don't even get through the sentence and she tells me not to worry about it and get on. Slight glimmer of hope for humanity.
Up here you would've gotten kicked off the bus/train or got a $120 ticket
-call Mike to regale him with my tales.. he gets all macgyver on me and suggests electrical tape until I can get to another shop. ghetto fabulous red electrical tape does the trick.
That's probably not going to hold. I had to walk home the other week because my electrical rim tape moved and exposed the spoke holes. It doesn't flat immediately but any sort of bump and it will puncture. I usually carry 2x spare tubes and a full park tool patch kit, so you can deduce how many flats it took to empty me out before I called it quits.
Not to mention the bike shop charged me $6 for rim tape for one wheel.