A flat tire!?! Amazingly, this was our first in all of our travels by taxi-brousse. The spare tire was also bald. We thought this was especially funny since we once had a language lesson about bald tires and the police. When I asked if there were any police in the area, our driver thought I was really in tune with Malagasy culture as the French man on board was asking if they didn't have another tire while I was more concerned that we didn't get in trouble!