But on the other hand, those are full-sized spares. Worth the annoyance of having to dig out the owner’s manual just to figure out how to get the thing off.
In theory I could replace the tire. I know how it’s done, but I’ve never had to do it. I would just call someone else and have them replace it.
If the question had been about changing a *bike *tire, that’d be tougher. I only successfully learned how to do that a couple of years ago in a class, and have never done it ‘in the wild.’
But a car tire? Many times.
Male and have changed more flat tires than I care to count, my first job was in a full service gas station as a pump jockey.
I* could*, yes. I paid attention to that part of driver’s training, and I’ve watched it done many times. Am I going to? Oh, hell no.
More times than I care to count. Even twice in one day on the same car. Fortunately I actually had two spares in the trunk.
I’d question the wisdom of attempting to lecture someone who has a tire iron handy and who knows how to use it.
eta: obligatory real man changing tire video.
Change it and swap out a new one on the rim if need be. I’m cheating though; I worked as a mechanic in my younger days.
I’ve done it probably a dozen times. I seem to get at least one flat a year.
The last time I had a big problem - I was stuck on the side of a 70 mph highway, in the middle of a pass-through toll. In other words, I had about eight feet of shoulder in which to stop the car, and I literally had to wedge myself in between the car and the concrete barrier in order to get the jack under the car and remove the lug nuts.
Then one of the studs snapped off while I was loosening it, and I fell over, causing the car to shift slightly… causing the car to fall off the fucking jack.
Fortunately, it didn’t fall on me. Less fortunately, the toppling car bent the mount point on the jack, rendering it useless. I was stuck a while until a kindly motorist pulled up with a proper jack.
What’s the advantage of a full-sized spare? I’m curious, because one time I had catastrophic tread separation so bad that it dented the hell out of the inside wheel well and I was thankful I had a donut spare, since a full-sized tire would not have fit into the space. Since then, I’ve made sure to only have donuts.
I don’t know how many times I’ve had to change a tire, often on primitive roads remote from civilization. Once in Venezuela I had to change five flats in the course of about a week. (On one windy mountain road, I got a flat and when I opened the trunk, found the spare was also flat - so I had to hitch to the next town to get it fixed, then hitch back again with the tire on my shoulder. On a road way out on the llanos, I hit a pothole in the dark and damaged two tires. Fortunately the leak in one was so slow I was able to get to my destination before it went too flat to drive on.) The time I had the most difficulty was in Argentina, when I found that I had some exotic kind of jack that I couldn’t figure out until a policeman came along and showed me how to assemble it.
Is it not obvious? You can drive normally on a full-sized spare. Instead of having to put on the donut, get the normal tire fixed, and then switch them again, you just put the spare on, get the normal tire fixed, and stick it in the trunk.
Well they are called Jehovah’s witnesses, not Jehovah’s wisemen.
But that happened to me. Flat tire on a 1964 Galaxie. Big heavy-ass wheel/tire (big enough I had to hug the tire/wheel to my chest to pick it up off the lugs). Full size spare. Stopped in a curve on a road with little to no shoulder and a high volume of traffic.
The dude didn’t even have the decency to help, just sat there next to me yammering about the Witnesses. I would gladly have bonked him with the tire iron, there was no place to hide the body though.
Well, no, it wasn’t immediately obvious to me which is why I asked the question. Most of my driving is in the city, so it’s no big deal to get the tire fixed and, given my past experience, I prefer the donut. Besides, when I blow a tire I usually swap two out at a time, unless the other one has relatively low mileage on it.
The car’s sitting in the parking lot at my office, so I’m in no hurry, and there’s six inches of slush on the ground.
Yeah, I’ll call AAA.
Too bad it wasn’t a Mormon - they would have been falling over themselves at the chance to change your tire for you. 
Certainly, and I’m a lady-type too. Oddly enough, even though I’ve been a member of AAA for years, I never even thought of calling them when I had flat tires - I’ve just always gone ahead and taken care of it myself. Even in dress clothes and 0 degrees (ahh…Madison memories).
That time, while some people stopped to ask if I needed a phone (and memorably, one lady to point out that I’d picked an inconvenient place to stop at - duh, I have a flat, lady, I didn’t really want to stop here), only one stopped to help, which I appreciated immensely. That said, I was nearly done when he stopped, so he basically just kept me company. Still appreciated it, though.
My last flat tire, last summer, another kindly gent stopped to help me loosen the lug nuts - I simply couldn’t loosen them on my own, even by standing on the tire iron. I appreciated his help too.
This thread clearly cursed me. Just a day after responding that I could in the poll, I got what looks like a screwdriver handle going from the rim of the tire and sticking out the inner side. Luckily I was on my way to the entrance ramp of I 880 and was able to easily get to an empty parking lot to change it. Took just ten minutes or so. I was in waving distance of a gas station too, and have AAA, but I also have my pride. 
I’ve never owned a car before, so I have to ask the question…how did all of you learn to change tires? Are the instructions written in the owner’s manual of the car? I suppose nowadays you can just look it up on Google or Youtube to figure it out, but how did you learn prior to the internet?
Pretty sure driver’s ed went over this topic. And dad, too.
It is in the owner’s manual, but I learned from watching my father. Do it myself the first time concentrated the mind wonderfully also. I don’t remember learning it in driver’s ed; if we did it was textbook or movie only, no actual changing.