{"id":30391,"date":"2016-08-22T08:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:15:19","slug":"a-flower-for-the-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30391","title":{"rendered":"A Flower for the Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a super-genius!<\/p>\n

I’ve had a dashboard flower in my Beetles since 2005. In the first one, I didn’t have the official Volkswagen vase, so I ran the stem through the hole, hooked it inside the mount for the vase, then stabilized it with little plastic shopper cards.<\/p>\n

The new Beetle came with the vase. The flower flopped around in that thanks to the shape of the vase.<\/p>\n

\"20160803_112841\"<\/p>\n

I put my thinking cap on. “What I need is a rubber wine bottle stopper. I run the stem through the stopper, then the stopper goes into the vase.”<\/p>\n

I went to a couple of stores and could not find what I wanted. Maybe what I wanted didn’t exist? But surely it did; my parents have rubber wine bottle stoppers.<\/p>\n

Google was my friend. I discovered that Bed Bath and Beyond sold the very thing. Off to BB&B I went.<\/p>\n

The wine bottle stopper fit the vase perfectly. I had to strip the stem down to its wire, and I punched it through.<\/p>\n

\"20160821_183225\"<\/p>\n

We’ll see how this does in a road test tomorrow when I go to work. My hunch is that it will work very well indeed.<\/p>\n

It’s my original flower, by the way. I have bought a new one, just in case.<\/p>\n

Like I said. Super-genius. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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