Austin, your son's common-sense advice reminds me of another silly story that happened ~15 years ago.
I was living overseas and the driver of a double-decker bus had attempted to go through a stone arch that was just a little bit too low. The bus got wedged in the arch and although it wasn't severely damaged, it was good and stuck.
The passengers got off and time passed. Many Wise Officials from the bus company and the city came and stared at the bus. They rubbed their chins, walked around the bus, climbed onto the roof, and stared and stared at the points where it was wedged. How do we get it out?
It was wedged too tightly to simply put it in reverse and drive out. The arch was very old and made with Very Large Stones and dismantling it was out of the question. Cutting the roof away would be time-consuming and, of course, would do serious damage to the bus.
Meanwhile, rush hour was coming, and the bus was blocking an important road. What to do? What to do? The Wise Officials rubbed their chins some more and thought and thought and thought about the problem.
Then the neighbor of a friend passed by, out for a stroll with his five-year-old daughter. He told her what had happened. She looked at the scene and said, loud enough for the Wise Officials to hear, "Daddy, why can't they just let the air out of the tires?"
Needless to say, the bus was freed immediately and the red-faced officials went home feeling very foolish indeed.
Val
