What's the deal with all the cars I keep seeing without hubcaps? I hope people aren't removing them thinking that they're saving gas by removing weight or something. Or maybe it's a statement in favour of a practical aesthetic over unnecessary decoration. When you think about it, thin plastic hubcaps are as useless as vinyl roofs. More likely, they're intimidated by the giant alloy wheels you see on cars with half-inch-think tires.
The other possibility is that people are stealing hubcaps, and we're just seeing the victims driving around with bare-steel wheels. Though that wouldn't make much sense: they've stolen so many hubcaps, that there are lots of cars driving around without hubcaps, so people like me think its a trend, so we don't want to buy hubcaps, so the hubcap thieves are stuck with thousands of hubcaps they can't sell.
Whichever explanation is correct, it's embarrassing that my car still has its hubcaps: Either I'm out of style for keeping them on the car, or the hubcap thieves think mine aren't worth stealing.
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