On the back bumper?!?!?
I couldn't believe my eyes today while helping unload groceries from the Avalanche after my wife returned from shopping. Sitting on the back bumper was a tiny Dremel bit. How did it get there you ask? I placed it there while I was tinkering around on a few mods... YESTERDAY!!! The tiny Dremel bit had stayed on the back bumper for 20+ miles down roads and hills of various condition, never dirt nor highway though, always something inbetween. My driveway even has a half-curb step up from the road which she obviously had to have crossed TWICE, yet still the Dremel bit remained.
That must be a fluke you say? Just wait, it gets better. On New Year's Eve I was out taking some pictures of my AV before running around and going party hopping that night. I wanted to get a shot of loading up the side storage bins with ice and beers. So how does this relate to the story you ask? Well I somehow left my $600 Digital Camera on my back bumper before we left!!! DUH!!!!! I never thought about it until the next day when I walked out in the driveway and was confused about the small metalic object sitting on my bumper. It was my camera. For a brief moment I thought "how the heck did that get out here this morning?" but then it dawned on me. I'd left it there from the night before and it spent 40+ miles on the back bumper all night long and never budged an inch! It was sphincter clenching moment, let me tell you.
So what did I learn from these nearly expensive mistakes? If you want some free schwag just follow TXAVy around quietly and try not to laugh at the dunce cap his wife makes him wear while driving now, and... The smoothest ride in the AV is OBVIOUSLY on the back bumper. You'd have to have $600+ dollars worth of proof to make me think otherwise.
I couldn't believe my eyes today while helping unload groceries from the Avalanche after my wife returned from shopping. Sitting on the back bumper was a tiny Dremel bit. How did it get there you ask? I placed it there while I was tinkering around on a few mods... YESTERDAY!!! The tiny Dremel bit had stayed on the back bumper for 20+ miles down roads and hills of various condition, never dirt nor highway though, always something inbetween. My driveway even has a half-curb step up from the road which she obviously had to have crossed TWICE, yet still the Dremel bit remained.
That must be a fluke you say? Just wait, it gets better. On New Year's Eve I was out taking some pictures of my AV before running around and going party hopping that night. I wanted to get a shot of loading up the side storage bins with ice and beers. So how does this relate to the story you ask? Well I somehow left my $600 Digital Camera on my back bumper before we left!!! DUH!!!!! I never thought about it until the next day when I walked out in the driveway and was confused about the small metalic object sitting on my bumper. It was my camera. For a brief moment I thought "how the heck did that get out here this morning?" but then it dawned on me. I'd left it there from the night before and it spent 40+ miles on the back bumper all night long and never budged an inch! It was sphincter clenching moment, let me tell you.
So what did I learn from these nearly expensive mistakes? If you want some free schwag just follow TXAVy around quietly and try not to laugh at the dunce cap his wife makes him wear while driving now, and... The smoothest ride in the AV is OBVIOUSLY on the back bumper. You'd have to have $600+ dollars worth of proof to make me think otherwise.
