...are becoming all too frequent on this forum.
Mrs Alzi is entitled to her opinion and it's true that RIBs can be unsightly in their non-floating state.
What you need to do is see this from a woman's perspective and work from there:
Colour co-ordination: Make sure that winter cover matches your car colour.
Seasonal Festivities: Get cracking with the Halloween stuff - get those wee ghosties and pumpkins up there, involve the nippers too and have a flare display on Guy Fawke's night. Christmas calls for a few lights on the A frame, and maybe a red nose on the bow - antlers are good too.
Floral Displays: If you have a stern well, bung in a few winter pansies, a bit of ivy draped over the console can work wonders too.
Avarice: Tell her how much storage costs and that if she drops the subject, you'll cut her in for half come her birthday.
The gaRfie approach: Tell her it won't be as sore on the eyes when one is closed and the other is squinting up the road from the wives shelter.
HTH.
she doesnt want to look at the Rib sat on the front garden all winter.. 
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