rotorwrench, The image of you in your last sentence is just too funny! I read, or saw, somewhere about a guy with a flat tire on a VW in Mexico and the "garage" not only seated the tire bead on the rim this way but inflated it as well. They didn't have a compressor or a pump!
Reminded of this quote;
"Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots."
--- E. Hamilton Lee
Larry