Be open to the wisdom of others

Until last year, I always hauled my Christmas tree in my car. In case anyone ever asks you, yes, you can fit a Christmas tree in the trunk of a sports car. It just sticks out some, and you have to tie the trunk shut.

With the addition of the Tracker to my fleet last year, it became the designated Christmas tree transport vehicle. I tied the tree on top and brought it home. This worked better than the trunk of my car, but the Tracker is a soft top, so it was sort of precarious to get it to stay put during travel. I was talking to a guy this week about getting my tree. He owns are Tracker too (he copied off me and bought one. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery you know). He suggested loading it in the passenger door and standing the top through the fold back sunroof.

I took his advice today. It worked GREAT. It fit in easily and no tying was required. Here are the Tracker and tree once we'd arrived home:

Be open to the wisdom of others. It just might make your life easier.


Additional fun fact to this story: I wouldn't let the guy at Lowe's trim the bottom of my tree with the chainsaw until he went and got some safety glasses. There were none in the area where the chainsaw was. While he was getting them, I was talking with another employee. He said "you made me get safety glasses last year." I thought he looked familiar. He was the one who trimmed my tree last year when I bought it. Everyone took it in good spirits and I told the person thank you for humoring me. I just couldn't let them use them chainsaw without them. If I had and something would have happened to their eyes, the guilt would be overwhelming.