For Christmas, DH gave me a set of new hubcaps (wheel covers) for my little car. Over time, one hubcap had obviously fallen off and the last time the car was serviced the mechanic indicated that the attachment clip on another had broken, so then I was down to two. Can look a bit ugly so I was thrilled that DH had noted my hints and the new set was under the Christmas tree.
It wasn't until New Year's Eve that DH, helped by our son in law, got around to putting the new hubcaps on the car. They looked great!
DH parked the car outside our house for the evening as he needed access for his car. In the morning I went out to the car and noticed that the front passenger side hubcap was missing...but I'd seen all 4 wheels covered the afternoon before.
Suspecting NYE high jinks, we walked along the street looking for the missing hubcap. We looked over people's front fences in case it had been thrown in a garden. We looked in wheely bins that were sitting on footpaths...and the next street too...nothing, no sign of it. 😡😡
I got a bit upset as I hadn't even had a chance to drive the car before the hubcap went missing. But then I thought, why spoil my day getting angry. I thought of things that had happened to friends over the years; a friend who had 3 cars stolen from their property, a former colleague who had the 4 wheels stolen from his car while he slept upstairs, friends being in accidents that wrote off their cars or the lady in our parish whose mother was killed in a road accident just before Christmas last year. Or the little boy from Samford ( a township just north of us) who was run over and killed by his dad on their property in a terrible accident just last week.
It certainly made my 'whinge' pretty insignificant.
And then my 'white knight' came to the 'rescue'. DH's cousin's husband just happened to have some individual hubcaps in his shed, which he asked us to check out; some new and one which was used. The best match was one from a previous car of DH's cousin. DH cleaned it up...
It has a few scratches, but you can hardly notice them...
For years I've teased G about his keeping things for years and storing them in 3 huge sheds...I think I won't tease him any more! 😂
It wasn't until New Year's Eve that DH, helped by our son in law, got around to putting the new hubcaps on the car. They looked great!
DH parked the car outside our house for the evening as he needed access for his car. In the morning I went out to the car and noticed that the front passenger side hubcap was missing...but I'd seen all 4 wheels covered the afternoon before.
Suspecting NYE high jinks, we walked along the street looking for the missing hubcap. We looked over people's front fences in case it had been thrown in a garden. We looked in wheely bins that were sitting on footpaths...and the next street too...nothing, no sign of it. 😡😡
I got a bit upset as I hadn't even had a chance to drive the car before the hubcap went missing. But then I thought, why spoil my day getting angry. I thought of things that had happened to friends over the years; a friend who had 3 cars stolen from their property, a former colleague who had the 4 wheels stolen from his car while he slept upstairs, friends being in accidents that wrote off their cars or the lady in our parish whose mother was killed in a road accident just before Christmas last year. Or the little boy from Samford ( a township just north of us) who was run over and killed by his dad on their property in a terrible accident just last week.
It certainly made my 'whinge' pretty insignificant.
And then my 'white knight' came to the 'rescue'. DH's cousin's husband just happened to have some individual hubcaps in his shed, which he asked us to check out; some new and one which was used. The best match was one from a previous car of DH's cousin. DH cleaned it up...
It has a few scratches, but you can hardly notice them...
For years I've teased G about his keeping things for years and storing them in 3 huge sheds...I think I won't tease him any more! 😂
