Turns Out It Isn’t Always

As good as a pickup truck that is.

We have needed to replace the screen door to the screened in porch on the back of the house since last year. It takes a water beating because of its location near a roof valley. But when the bottom part of the screening spontaneously separated from its channel at the bottom last week, it forced our hand. We had to get a new one.

The door is 36 x 80 in size and the width was a couple of inches too wide to fit through the Sonata’s pass through trunk opening, so it was eliminated from cargo duty. Next in consideration was our usual go-to car, the Miata, which I have proudly proclaimed here on many an occasion as being as good as a pickup on a sunny day. We talked through a couple scenarios in which we might carry a screen door back from the store using the Miata, but couldn’t think of a good way, so opted for Plan C.

We decided to hand carry it back from the nearest BBHIW which is only a little more than a mile from home. Our biggest obstacle would be crossing the busy Whiskey Road in front of the store, but because we made the trip over before 8 o’clock this morning, the normal high amount traffic usually present was nowhere to be found, we didn’t even have to slow as we changed from parking lot to street.