Car's Not Broken!!!

What I didn't say in my previous blog post -- I forgot to mention it, honest -- is that I remembered the time where my car last made a rhythmic rattling noise while driving to work in April of last year.  Can it be that I just lost a lug nut?

So early yesterday/Sunday afternoon I decided I would mulch the leaves in both the front and back yards.  That would give me the chance to do something I should've done: Check to see if I had all my lug nuts.  And I'll be goddamned, one of them was missing.  So I had to take time out of what was supposed to be a lazy Sunday to go to a car parts store and find a lug nut.  No worries; the Vikings were slouching through a Loss, so my time was better spent doing this anyway.

Bought it, screwed it in, and, because it probably was best to try it out and see if my car still made that noise, I decided I was going to use it (instead of the minivan) to drive and work out last/Sunday night.  I cranked the radio up while I was driving, but I didn't hear a sound.

Phew!  I really thought my car was in big trouble, but thankfully I took a deep breath and thought about what could the problem be.  Now, the problem is why am I having problems with my car's lug nuts.  Two were stolen and two loosened that one time back in December of 2022, and then there were these three loose lugs, and now this.  Was this one stolen?  Did this just somehow loosen on its own?