I blew the tire on my '96 Contour while driving to Illinois from Virginia...I drove into a curb at a Sunoco gas station on the Ohio Turnpike (whomever designed those curbs needs to re-think them, as they jut out around the gas pumps and you can't see them).

I wasn't going to drive the remaining 350 or so miles on a compact spare, so I found a Walmart and had a new tire put on.

Other people probably WOULD have driven the rest of the way with the compact spare!

Brian