Jupiter E-bike Flat Tire - Tube Repair

I suppose it was bound to happen, but I've ridden a fair amount and don't remember getting a flat tire. I guess when I was a kid it probably happened regularly but I don't remember. Ok, I do remember one time but I digress. I was in Sequim a few days back and had gone 5 miles. I started on the Olympic Discovery Trail but there were more people out than I liked so I decided to just take one of the little-travelled roads. It's very flat and hardly any cars, so I was happy. At one point there were a couple of dogs across the street in a fenced yard barking at me. I was looking at them and then, "thud". I ran over something. I kept going for 10 seconds not noticing anything but then I started hearing air escaping. Bummer, a hole in the back tire. First thing I tried to do was keep riding slowly but that didn't work so I stopped and looked to see how far I was from the car. Three miles. Hmm. That's a bit of a walk.

I didn't have any tools, pump or tube patch kit so my only option was to start walking (or just wait there), as my wife had another 50 or so minutes at the appt. I texted her and asked her to text me when she was done. I then started walking. After 40 minutes I stopped, as I found a nice place in a residential street that would work better for loading a bike into a car than on a busy street.

Once home I ordered a tube repair kit, as I didn't have any rubber cement on hand. I then went about getting one bead of the tire off the rear rim (I didn't bother removing the wheel from the bike). Once that was done, I was able to fish the tube out of the tire. I then put air in it and found the hole. It's in the center of the photo below.

Here's a shot of it after abrading the surface. The hole got bigger.... This tube is the thinnest I've ever seen.

I applied some glue, let it dry, then slapped on a patch. I reinstalled the tube, got the tire bead back on the rim, and pumped the thing up. Air was escaping out of the valve stem hole. Hmm..... Out came the tube for the second time. I blew up the tube and found a tine hole. Not sure how that happened but I patched it up and put things back together. I pumped up the tire and air was again escaping out of the valve stem hole. Hmm..... Out came the tube for the third time. I blew up the tube and found a second tiny hole, about an inch from the first tiny hole. I don't know what happened but I surely must have caused those two small holes. I patched the tube again and put things back together. Again. This time there were no leaks. Yay.

So, the time I remember getting a flat. I was probably 10. There was a rip in the sidewall of my bike tire and the tube was protruding slightly. I pumped up the tire and the protrusion got bigger and bigger. I was kind of playing with it, spinning the tire around and letting the protrusion bump against the bike frame. I guess things got worse and the tube popped.