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cellioDani is a sweetie.
Today I went to Home Depot to get a couple more sheets of lattice for the new sukkah. Before I bought anything (and before I had them cut something else I decided to pick up at the same time), I confirmed that they'd be able to wrap plastic around the bundle so we could tie this onto the roof of my car without scratching paint. This was all fine in principle.
It's a funny thing: when there are things you see all the time, you sometimes just completely fail to notice them. I had kind of wondered when I bought this car about the strange place they put the antenna, but then it faded completely into the background.
VW puts the antenna in the center of the back of the car (on the roof). And it doesn't retract. Mine's a small car, so if we had put stuff in front of the antenna it would have blocked view out the front. (Blocking view out the back is not such a big deal, given side mirrors and that it's a trip of a few miles through city streets.) So then we looked at sliding the lattice down over the antenna, bringing it up through the holes in the lattice, but there were several reasons that this was a bad idea.
I called a friend who lives a few blocks away and has a van, but he wasn't home. So then I called Dani, who very nicely brought his car, which lacks a roof-top obstacle, to Home Depot so we could load lumber onto it. Yay!
Aside: you don't need any special cables or webbing or whatnot to attach stuff to the roof when shopping at Home Depot: the plastic they use for shrink-wrapping works just fine, though my inner sense of perversity wanted to tie a big bow on the top of the car when we were done gift-wrapping it. :-)
Today I went to Home Depot to get a couple more sheets of lattice for the new sukkah. Before I bought anything (and before I had them cut something else I decided to pick up at the same time), I confirmed that they'd be able to wrap plastic around the bundle so we could tie this onto the roof of my car without scratching paint. This was all fine in principle.
It's a funny thing: when there are things you see all the time, you sometimes just completely fail to notice them. I had kind of wondered when I bought this car about the strange place they put the antenna, but then it faded completely into the background.
VW puts the antenna in the center of the back of the car (on the roof). And it doesn't retract. Mine's a small car, so if we had put stuff in front of the antenna it would have blocked view out the front. (Blocking view out the back is not such a big deal, given side mirrors and that it's a trip of a few miles through city streets.) So then we looked at sliding the lattice down over the antenna, bringing it up through the holes in the lattice, but there were several reasons that this was a bad idea.
I called a friend who lives a few blocks away and has a van, but he wasn't home. So then I called Dani, who very nicely brought his car, which lacks a roof-top obstacle, to Home Depot so we could load lumber onto it. Yay!
Aside: you don't need any special cables or webbing or whatnot to attach stuff to the roof when shopping at Home Depot: the plastic they use for shrink-wrapping works just fine, though my inner sense of perversity wanted to tie a big bow on the top of the car when we were done gift-wrapping it. :-)
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