Better to laugh than cry

So, here in Europe curbs and sidewalks are common place for a quick stop in the car. And, as we learned at cultural training, you should observe the locals and try to do what they do (you know buy a bus ticket before the bus starts going vs. after...standing in line vs. a free for all...speaking quietly at the grocery store vs. loudly laughing your way through the aisles...parking on the sidewalk...it's all cutlural observation).

So we pulled off of a narrow street in Schliengen to see the remnant of a canon shot during a battle of Napoleon's. We must have been too much in awe of what we had just seen because we failed to notice the tiny marble step before us. We hear a POP, and I said "there goes our tire." Everyone else in the car said "no way, it couldn't be!" So we pull over (this time into a driveway), and sure enough our very flat tire, had a very large hole in it, while a very sharp marble step smirked at us just a few meters away.

Is it bad that I laughed? What else can you do after you have been driving your car for a mere 5 days after it's 5 week stint at the mechanic!?! This is just cultural adjustment, right?