No comedy nor tragedy on my end. Just a little bit of a hiccup.

I have new-ish tires on the car, which is pretty old.
Of late, the local streets around my town have been
going through extensive re-surfacing.
It wreaks the kind of havoc, on tires and wheels,
that I associated with the end of winter when the potholes appear.

Suddenly one rear tire began flattening.
It's all fixed now. I hurried to the place where I bought the tires.
They graciously squeezed me in without an appointment.
They said that the tire "rim bead" -- or was it "bead rim"? --
was not properly sealed against the wheel rim,
and concurred when I described the lousy surface conditions
during the road repairs on local streets.

Thank goodness that was set right with the minimum amount of trouble.
But darn it, those street repairs ...