Sit and Spinner

Last week, my wife and I drove to the not-so-nearby VW dealership for scheduled turn’n’cough car service. I was leading in my car and she was following me in hers. As I turned left onto the road, about 30 feet from the entrance to the dealership lot, I caught a view of something large and shiny disappearing under the front of my car. ::KRUNCH, scraaaaaaaaape::

Crap.

I pulled into the tiny parking dot (it’s a parking lot in a conceptual, rather than literal, sense) and promptly hopped out of my car, convinced I had slashed my tire(s) horribly and was driving on one or more of my rims. Nope. Whatever I hit chewed up a plastic covering on the underside of my engine, which was then dragging on the ground. It seemed largely cosmetic, so I took a deep breath and cursed a few times on my way into the dealership. Arguably, I did screw up my car at the most convenient moment possible.

Alisa, being the enterprising and wonderful woman that she is, ran out onto the street as I waited at the counter in the service office, and came running up to the lobby holding this:

A faux-chrome spinner with snowflake design.

Is it me, or are most spinners meant to hide cheap wheels? It’s like wearing gold lamé: “I have no cash or taste, but I’m sure shiny! That’s the same thing, right?”

That’s right, I ran over some faux-bling fool’s cheap spinner.

And now it’s mine. Ha ha, moron! If you’re going to blow $29.99 on snowflake-shaped spinners for your Corolla, at least learn to install them properly. You lose!

So now the obvious question is: what do I do with it? I’m pretty sure we’ll hang it up somewhere funny but I’m open to suggestions.*

*And no, it won’t fit on either of our cars’ wheels.

Posted on August 22, 2005 9:30 AM
Comments

Does it fit on the Prius? Because really, what is more ideal than a Prius with one cheap spinner?

Posted by: agerard at August 22, 2005 10:58 AM

Is there some way to reengineer it as a lazy susan for your table or something? This is only if Adam's suggestion is unworkable, because that is clearly the best and only thing to do with it.

Posted by: Jon at August 22, 2005 2:10 PM

My vote is for some sort of Wheel of Fourtune/Death/Wall ornament.

Posted by: Alisa at August 29, 2005 8:53 PM

COOLEST YARMULKE EVAR

Posted by: j wreezy at August 30, 2005 11:34 AM

If it doesn't fit on the Prius, there's really only one option : The biggest, shiniest necklace OF ALL TIME!!! Just buy a big chain.

Also, get a skull-cap....

Posted by: sdp at August 31, 2005 11:30 AM