About five or six years ago, my Altima shed its left front hubcap on a snowy, icy, slick cloverleaf in Edina. Since that day, I've told myself that the missing part gave the car character - a tough attitude. And by "tough" I mean it was like putting a bulldog tattoo on Abigail Breslin and claiming she's now bad-ass. But, anyway, I didn't want to invest in new tires and rims because I don't care much about cars other than I use them to get from A to B.
Last night, Deb and I left a drinking establishment in Uptown and were walking down the sidewalk to her car. I stopped abruptly and stared at the ground. A hubcap. A Nissan hubcap. Just sitting there on the ground. Alone. Dirty. I stood there looking at the lonely vehicle accessory and silently pondered my next actions. Deb saw my actions and verbalized the events:
"Are you looking at that hubcap?"
"Hey, I wonder if...it does say 'Nissan' on it!"
"Is it the same as yours?"
"We'll see." And see we did. I took the hubcap back to my block, snapped it onto my tire (now on the front right), and...no more black eye.
And to think I was in a horrible mood last night before that happened...
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When you put the hubcap on did you think to yourself: "My Nissan Altima. A car barely alive. Deb, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic car. My Altima will be that car. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster...more hubcaps."
No? Ok, I was just checking.
It really is the all about the little things sometimes.
I see it more like that crapfest movie Body Parts - I bet you will start to take on the characteristics of the driver who lost the hubcap.
We'd all better keep our eye on Ted for personality changes. Fankly, some of your emails today have sounded a little strange.
And somewhere out there is a person who found YOUR hubcap, and bafflingly started hating tomatoes and acquiring white jean shorts about five years ago.
You wear white jean shorts? Ew.
But I gotta say "Lucky!" on the found hubcap. I wish that I could be walking along the street some night and find a back passenger-side door, or a spare bumper, or maybe even a left drivers-side front panel.
A girl can dream...
HA! Body Parts! So I wasn't the only person to see that movie...
Oh yes, Ben - I saw it too. In the theatre! You must have been the only other person there, up by the back?
Sorry, K. You win. My viewing was via VHS rental.
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