Oh no! Not again!

He's back. Joe the Auto Glass Man returned to our driveway this
morning to fill a ding in the VW. Still no Box of Steaks.

Kathleen couldn't possibly be this unlucky. She couldn't possibly be driving that close to gravel trucks. This is the third time in about a year that we've called the insurance company for a new windshield. And still no free box of steaks.

LA job.

Tom Swirtz, our long-suffering State Farm agent for umpteen years, relieved us yesterday when he told us that, statistically, the VW Beetle is accident prone -- to windshield strikes. Huh? Yes, the airfoil design, the bubble, the angles, whatever, stop more rocks than your average auto. Really? Gee, what an honor.

Today's ding.

So this morning, when Joe rolled up again in his familiar City Auto Glass truck, we greeted him like an old friend. He remembered being here before, it's only a year ago last August, to fix the blue Beetle.
We had the windshield replaced on the yellow Beetle last winter, while we were staying in Los Angeles.
Now the LA windshield has been patched with a compound covering the ding in the right photo. We agreed to the inexpensive 20-minute invisible fix this time, even though we are actually entitled to a new windshield.
What the heck, we'll be replacing it in six months anyway.

Joe the Glass Man. August 11, 2011. File photo.