Exxon Metro Doctor for a Flat Tire

First, the table lamp halogen light bulb blew out the day before our visitor arrived. That required a visit to Old Town Alexandria to the light store to get a replacement. Then, after picking him up from the airport and dropping him off downtown for a meeting yesterday, I noticed the right rear tire was flat when we were parking the car. Then I saw the low pressure tire light glowing on the dash. Luckily it happened in our neighborhood so we drove a few blocks to the Exxon Metro Doctor gas station on Pennsylvania Avenue. They immediately checked it, but unfortunately it couldn’t be repaired because the damage was too much. So the attendant put on the tiny spare tire and put the damaged tire in the trunk. When we got home I made an appointment with our Subaru dealer service department to get a replacement - which coincides with the timing to have the tires checked anyway. This hasn’t been a good year for our 2016 Subaru Forester. We have been to the service department more times than I care to think about - for a broken windshield, check engine and several other warning lights that kept flashing, and now for this punctured tire. Two of those incidents occurred when we had our of town guests! With all the darn construction going on in this city we have been lucky it hasn’t been more often. When we first moved here we had two flat tires in the same week. You would think by now a new material would be made for car tires. I don’t think that will ever happen.