Slime

Slime, that's right. I had slime in my rear tire tube. I admit it! In the interest of spending less time repairing flats and more time riding I tried using a tube that is supposed to seal small punctures with a green slime that resides inside the tube. Guess what? It failed me and left me stranded. Oh sure, I tried to a repair the tube that should need not repair. No dice. My backup new tube was damaged during installation. So, with the glue running out, the sun setting and the temps dropping it was my cell phone that turned out to be the ultimate repair tool.
The good news. After examining the tube and e-mailing the kind folks that spend their days putting slime in those tubes they have informed me that my tube was defective and that they would mail me out a new one. New slime! Oh Joy! Slime don't fail me now.