Who needs a patch kit when you've got a fruit snack?

Thanks to some awful thorns that infest our neighborhood, a tire on our double jogging stroller has been flat for over a week. So on Monday Brian changed the tube in the right tire. This morning I was so excited to finally go walking again!

I loaded the kids up and took them to the mall because we woke up to snow (on April 16!) I pulled the stroller out of the car to find that the LEFT tire was now flat. Argh.

Those thorns are so nasty that I actually travel with a tire pump. So hoping for the best, I pumped it up there in the parking lot. Unfortunately, even as I pumped, I could here it -- Psssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss -- going flat.

We were meeting a friend to walk so I took the kids in the stroller into the mall anyway. On my way in I thought -- "Hmmm..wish I had a piece of gum. I'd try and plug that hole, even though I'm sure that wouldn't work."

But I was desperate, and as I walked into the mall I went over the contents of my purse. Wallet, coupons, chapstick, goldfish crackers, fruit snacks!

I pumped up the tire again, found the hole, and stuck a piece of fruit snack on it. Then, worried that the fruit snack would stick to the floor and dislodge itself, I stuck a little leaf on the fruit snack.

And people, it worked! I was there for about an hour and the tire stayed inflated! Just call me McGyver. Of course, fruit snacks probably weren't even around back then, but had they been, he would have found them handy to have around.