About a week ago I saw a firetruck on Boylston, just South of Denny, which had gotten -- no shit -- a flat tire. There was a Seattle Motor Pool patrol pickup there and its crew had put the firetruck up on two enormous jacks. I would say that the firemen were, on the balance, more bemused than enraged.

(BTW, if you recognize my username, it's from the everything2 site. Username recognition is why I followed a link to your journal.)