My car

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I've decided my car is a 'thing' magnet.  From the day I picked it up from the dealership it has had unbelievable encounters.  The town in which I bought the car sits on a large lake.  As I drove home with my shiny new car I went over a causeway just as someone cast their line.  Their hook snagged my wing mirror.

Since then my car has been:

1. Struck by lightning
2. Hit by a large pebble that cracked the headlamp cover (on freeway)
3. Hit by a piece of sheet rock that dented the windshield frame (on freeway)
4. Hit by countless pebbles that have now produced three small star cracks on my windscreen and multiple dings on the bonnet

Yesterday as I drove down the same freeway, a truck hauling a trailer loaded with some sort of smaller vehicle started losing small pieces of paper and plastic.  Then a giant tube of corrugated cardboard flew off...of course towards me!  I had no way of knowing what exactly it was (whether the tube contained anything), and it being 'rush' hour (Huntsville really doesn't have one!), I had no maneuvering room.  I just flinched as it bounced off my windscreen.  Thankfully no damage was done.

I should have turned around and returned to the car dealership when I snagged that fishing hook!