Ran over a nail today!

I feel for you! It happened to me too and also got a few flats with my car and even have stepped on a few boards that had nails on it.

hoo b oy what do you want to bet by morning that ankles going to bv swollen up ?I a m a party pooper but thats always been m y experiences with the cussed sprains.,I am glad otherwise it was not a bad day .Hope I am wrong and you will be fine in the morning. one time on the freeway I and my husband and little girl were spinning along on the la freeway when a keg of n ails from a rooofing co.truck toppled onto the freeway. we tried to slow down to avoid them but too late,all four tires went poof. so a really kind Italian man in a limo had his driver stop and he took us into LA to his tire shop and he paid for four new tires for u s,. okay it would take awhile so he took us to a cafe which was part of a string of restaurants he owned in the US here and we learned he also owned the roofing company who lost the keg of roofing nails on the freeway too,. that was one interesting night.Our son was with my parents as we called and had my folks meet his school bus.It was bedtime when we got back and our son wished he had got to share in the adventure too.

It sounds like it really takes little to make you happy after all. I am so sorry you had those mishaps. Could not have just one, had to have both. Have a better day tomorrow.

Ugh, sounds like a horrible day to me...I hate it when construction workers leave nails, they need to have a metal can attached to their pants so they can deposit old nails there. A couple weeks ago I was dog sitting for my neighbor and for the first 3 days, they were re-roofing her house and I cringed as I rode my bike over there, looking carefully for anything shiny I needed to avoid. The worse was at night when I would take the van over, hoping they had cleaned up before they left. I have to admit though, from seeing the mess from previous workers, these guys really did a wonderful job cleaning up. There wasn't one nail in the driveway and a couple days ago when my neighbor and I were working in her flower bed up against the house, I only found 1 nail and just two of those round things they use for roofing. So I know if we ever need roofing done on our home, who I would call...

I imagine this is "tomorrow", right? Is your ankle better? If I had seen this discussion earlier, I'd have told you that you should put ice on that ankle which would help keep swelling down. Are you able to walk on it now? I certainly hope so! I've only run over one thing that flattened a tire but that was a big, fat screw. This was a car tire and I couldn't fix it myself. I took it to a garage to be fixed. The mechanic took a look at it, looked up at me and said, "You really screwed this one, huh?" Three dollars later, my tire had a brand new plug and was almost as good as new. (That was a LONG time ago. I'm sure it wouldn't cost less than $10 these days, probably a lot more to plug a hole in a tire.)

Oh, man, sorry to hear about your bike tire and your ankle. Hope you got some bike hole repair stuff! Keep the ankle propped up and ice on it. I remember one time I fell on the ice and really didn't think too much of it. The next morning my whole foot and ankle was swollen. Went to the doctor and ended up I sprained my little toe! Oh how fun that was!!

I've got a flat bicycle tire at least a couple of times. Last time I took out my bicycle in the spring the first time that year and got a flat tire after a few minutes. I haven't used the bike after that, and it was three years ago, I think..?? Well, walking is good for health.

too bad you didn't know who did it to report them.

I do hope you got a tetanus shot. I stepped on some broken glass years ago and had to get one because it was years before since I had one. Hope you are better now.

Oh man what a day. I would be really mad about this because of someone else not having the decency to throw this in the garbage you ran iver it in the street and now you have to fix your tire and the tube and you have a sprained ankle. I have huge issues with people who litter so hearing this makes me really angry.

What a day! I don't like it when people are too irresponsible to leave a nail lying around the road. But it happens! Since this response is a little bit late, I do hope you were able to ride the next day.

That person who threw that on the street was not thinking about who might be hurt by that. I've had some bad spills on bikes before and a nail into your tire could have sent you reeling. A sprained ankle is not nice either but at least you didn't hurt yourself worse when it happened. I hope your ankle won't hurt too badly so you can go cycling again tomorrow.