What's the question?

The answer is: Holey rubber!

Your choices for the correct question are:
a) what did Mary say to Joseph when the pee strip turned blue?
b) what did Robin say to the Batman in episode #42, The Eraser Meets the Sharp Pointy Thing?
c) what I exclaimed to The T when we were cruising along at 55 miles-per-hour and a front tire on the Subaru blew out?

If you chose (c), you'd be correct. Man, nothing like a flat tire to help you focus on what's important. It didn't matter that we were on our way to Slum Depot to drop another good chunk of change to outfit our new guest room. Nor did it matter that we had found two really cool bedside tables in an "antique" store, aka: ongoing junk swap, and they were now getting a bit damp in the evening mist as they sat on the side of the road while we dug out the spare.

No, what truly mattered in this whole experience was that the very first time we needed the lug wrench to change the flat tire we found it wasn't there! We've owned this car for 10 years now and did we ever think to check for the lug wrench? No. Why would we look for it when we didn't need it?

So we called our hero Joe the Electron (not his real name) and his trusty sidekick, Rainbow Hemp (could be her real name), and they came right out to the east of the middle of nowhere to aid us in our time of need of wrench-lessness. And in the true spirit of brotherhood and plain old getting-along-edness, the lug wrench from the German Audi would have nothing to do with the lug nuts on the Japanese Subaru. Have we learned nothing from the messages of the season? Can't we all just get it on together?

So Electron and The T cruised back to Electron's abode to find his collection of wrenches while Hemp and I communed with the cows. We were the highlight of the cows' day, I swear. The just stood there and stared and chewed and stared and chewed ... and you get the idea. Thirty minutes later, we bid the cows adieu and we were rolling along on our donut-wheel. We got to the 'Pot, bought our goods and returned home safely. The room is now tricked out quite nattily and the invasion of relatives not my own begins soon.

All's well that end's well.