Yesterday at the school where I work (after school program) one kid walked out to discover his bike had a flat tire. Some of the teachers were ready to call his mom and the kid was pretty upset because "they had just gotten a new tube so that shouldn't happen" when I looked up and said I had a patch kit and pump.

One of the teachers litterally let out a gasp and exclaimed something about how prepared I was. It was all I could do not to roll my eyes.

When we took the tire off the bike though, I couldn't find a leak, so I pumpe dit back up and told the kid to check it in the morning--if it wa sflat then he had a slow leak. My guess though is that someone let the air out of his tire.

Edit: dbec, I'm glad you're okay. Dooring sucks.