Happiness in Small Things
Yesterday, I was walking into town from work and I saw one of the hubcaps of a passing car fall off and spin to a stop on the other side of the road.
Of course I’ve noticed plenty of hubcaps lying in the gutter over the years, but I’ve never before actually been in the right place at the right time to see the “falling off” happen.
I know it’ll be an annoyance for the car owner — another expense to replace it, unless he or she actually noticed where it happened — but I couldn’t help but smile at what surely must remain a fairly rare conjunction of me, a car and a hubcap that had somehow decided it was time to go it alone. OK, I wouldn’t go as far as saying I can now die a happy man having seen a hubcap falling off, but nevertheless it was an unexpected rarity that put a smile on my face.
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