What to do when you get a puncture on the way to a friend’s wedding

You’re wearing a pastel silk outfit. Do you change the tyre yourself in the lashing rain, or wait until the breakdown truck arrives? If you wait, you won’t make it in time. They’ll all notice and say you didn’t have the gall to turn up. They’ll say it confirms the rumour you slept with the groom. Even though you didn’t.

Originally published in Paragraph Planet
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