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The cycling gods have spoken.
I was on a group ride with our club yesterday, and the ride leader (also the president of the club) announced he may not be able to wait for someone with a flat tire or other issue, as he had something he had to get to after the ride ended. "It's not necessarily a no-drop ride," he said, which is unusual in our group - almost all of our rides are no-drop (or, as I think of them, "regroup regularly"), the ones that aren't are well marked on the calendar.
Guess who got the flat tire, and got left behind because only one other person even knew there was an issue, and had to call his wife for pickup because he couldn't get the tire off?
(We realized they were missing at a later intersection and called him, that's when we found out what happened. We did wait for the other guy that tried to help him; he finished the ride with us.)