I had something happen to me the other day. I was driving down the highway watching what I was doing.

All of a sudden I heard a big racket. I thought “what did I run over”? I was pretty sure I had my eyes on the road and I hadn’t seen anything laying in the highway.

I looked in my rear view mirror and a long black something came flying out and turned a few flips in the air and landed over on the edge of the pavement.

I considered going back to see what it was, but I was more concerned with watching my built-in air gauge on the car to see if I’d punctured a tire. All turned out fine, as I went on to Austin and back without having a flat tire.

Then I walked out of the house yesterday morning and discovered all the center plastic shroud that wraps underneath was gone.

These half plastic cars. I tell you what !!!!!

Now I got a car going down the road that looks like a big catfish lurking around with its mouth open.

I’m sure that won’t cost more than five or six hundred dollars to buy that new piece. Plus I’ll have to crawl up under it and try to future out how to attach it.

I think I’ll just wait and drive it like this until the weather cools off. Or I may not ever fix it. Who am I trying to impress anyway?

Heck us Smithwick boys used have a hook come up and completely destroy it and we’d just take it off and drive around hoodless.