Pull into the parking lot, it is close one the right hand side. There is a wooden railing there, it is only millimetres away from the side of the vehicle on the one side and on the other a red car. A typical squeeze, trying to make a parking spot where there is not really one. Reverse just a little bit, and there is a cracking noise from the front. So forward again, and put on the parking brake. Leave the vehicle and walk around to the othere side to see what the crackle was. See that the post holding the wooden railing is leaning outwards, and the bottom of this post, being nearer to the car had caught itself in the right mudgaurd, and on the short, ill thought of reversing manouver had caught and pulled the plastic mudguard away from its retaining clips. Crack Crack noises. Push the plastic thing back, realise that there are many clips and that one may be broken.
Leave it, and go to the office. Think that it will be necessary to get some carpet tape during the day to hold the errant plastic parts down. It is too cold to repair things properly.
In the evening, it is snowing, all cold and wet. Take the roll of fabric tape, tear of a strip, and stick it to the mudguard, pressing firmly. Crack Crack noises. The mudguard is back in place as if nothing had happened at all, sitting as firm as it ever had.
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