wow so check this out.. this f'n grill lol
I recently bought a cabin style house in northern NJ, so happy to have a place to keep all the spare LS parts I've accumulated over the years. I had previously kept it all scattered in family garages and in my tiny basement in Queens. So I rent a 10ft uhaul, it was just big enough to fit all the junk and my dirtbikes!
so I'm grabbing the extra mirrors, fenders, alternators pumps and pulleys etc and chucking it in back. But when it came time to pack the grill I kept it up front with me lol, right up on the big dashboard out of the way. well I wound up forgetting it up there, I don't know how it didn't see it cleaning the truck up. guess it was tucked under the windshield so far down there I just missed it.
when it came time to unpack all the boxes, after already returning the truck, I noticed the grill was missing. At first I figured it was in the house somewhere amongst all the junk we brought in, but it never turned up! I called the uhaul place back and the gentlemen who I returned the truck to answered, nice guy, walked over to the truck with me on the phone and searched around. looked up front, looked in the back, told me there was nothing and apologized.
At this point I'm questioning myself if I even packed the darn thing, or if someone already swiped it out of the truck. I assumed the latter and went about the rest of the snowy week with the occasional sad remembrance that my precious was gone
Eventually it kinda hit me that it was silly I was fretting over a piece of plastic. Yeah it might be worth some coin to some, but still just plastic. I started to laugh at how the things you own, sometimes wind up owing you. I'm so far from being a materialistic person, totally other end of the spectrum actually. But there a couple things I own that I hold dear and this damn car and pretty plastic grille are some of them
Well I got to work today and there was a voicemail from the uhaul guy, he checked the wrong truck! They wound up finding the grill and I'm picking it up this weekend