Early last summer I was walking along a rather big bridge and spotted this wheel in a little grass area between the curb and the sidewalk. My first thought was to leave it where it was for a few reasons...1) surely someone will come looking for it because a missing wheel will make a trip very rocky, or 2) it's not completely metal and therefore doesn't quallify for the collection of metal objects. Obviously, I threw caution to the wind and picked up the wheel, which sits proudly among the objects in the basket now.
So I thought long and hard about a story to go with the wheel. Now, this is where you will begin to think (if you don't already) that I'm really losing it! You see, in trying to figure out what this could have come off of, I contemplated a grocery store shopping cart, a little old lady type shopping cart, a baby stroller...none of these seemed to be just right...So, I settled on a coroner's gurney. I think that this wheel accidently came loose at the scene of a fatal accident when the corpse was being loaded from the street to the back of the coroner's van. That's what I've settled on...but it's probably from some useless cart of some sort and that's why no one is missing it. I sure hope that it isn't bad luck to have it in my metal collection basket!
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