Did I mention that the closest Ikea to our house is in Canada? No? Then I probably also didn’t mention that on our way to Ikea, a large Canadian truck launched a rock at the windshield of my pickup, which left a nasty double-chip that soon matured into a six-inch-long crack. It was the least pleasant part of our trip to Canada, to be sure.

Fortunately, though my pickup is hardly a luxury vehicle, I do carry comprehensive on it for this very reason. Better still, the $100 deductible is waived when the windshield can be repaired rather than replaced. So, other than the time I spent waiting at Novus, no harm was done, and all is back to the way it was. I sound like a State Farm commercial…