A Nail In My Tire

I got another nail in the tire of my truck. Not uncommon for a guy in construction.

When something like this happens, it's easy to get frustrated. "Not again" is something that came to mind. "I'm already busy and now I have yet another thing I need to take care of..."

I did what I usually do and gave Tom at call at Tom's Garage. As usual he told me swing by when I have a chance and he'll take care of it for me right away.

That day, I headed on over after picking up my son from school. When I got there I turned the wheel to the right and backed the truck up slowly so Tom could scan the tire and see if there was anything obvious. In this case it was not an obvious nail. He said it may be easier if he just pops the tire off quickly.

"Do you have the key for the locking nuts on your rims?" he asked. My answer was "I'm not sure."

I never had to take the tires off since I bought the truck so I never actually looked for them. It turned out that I did not have the key. I called the dealership and they actually forgot to put them in the truck so they still had them.

Luckily Tom was able to find the hole and fix the tire without taking it off but what I realized is that this happened FOR me.

I have another friend who sells tires in Brockville which is just over an hour away from where we live. I had been talking to him about getting winter tires and I was going to head down there in the near future to have them installed. If this hole in my tire had not happened, I would not have known about the key for my locking nuts until I got all the way to Brockville. I would have wasted way more time than just having to fix a nail in the tire.

This experience is summed up perfectly in the following quote that I read this morning:

"The perfection of the Universal Flow I had been surrendering to had taken care of the problem before I even knew there was one."
-- Michael A. Singer

That's a quote is from The Surrender Experiment. I highly recommend getting this book or listening to the audio version.

So the next time something "bad" happens to me, I know it's only going to be "good" in the end.