This afternoon I popped round to the supermarket to get some food for tonight. I was in the shop for five damn minutes, just long enough to pick up a pizza and some garlic bread, and some fuckwit has scraped my rear bumper.
I only noticed when I’d got home. Of course, nobody had left a note or anything. So I phone the supermarket, and speak to the supremely unhelpful manager. First she gives it the whole “Of course, patrons park at their own risk, yadda yadda…”
“I know, I’m not blaming you, I just wondered if you had CCTV and might be able to tell me who did it.”
“Ah well, you see, our cameras only really cover the store front… and of course we have to be careful what information we give out… Data Protection and so on…”
Translation: we have cameras, but I can’t be arsed to go and search for the tape.
Previously, I drove a 20-year-old heap of shit. Did anyone once so much as scratch it? No. I have had a new car three months, and so far I have scraped it driving into the garage (my fault), got a big scratch down the side due to a fallen tree branch in the road, and now this.
New Car Syndrome? Possibly, but I’m still fucked off. Pass the touch-up paint. :mad:
I’ve always thought the first thing one should do with a new car is hit it in the side with a baseball bat. Then you never worry about it again. Now ask me if I practice what I preach.
You might have new car syndrome, right enough; but what’s the point of splashing out all that lovely lolly on a new car if you can’t have new car syndrome?
It is a bugger though, when your new pride and joy gets damaged. I sympathise.
Test for NCS:
Have you still got the plastic on the seats?
Do you like that it smells all new car-y?
If you have hubcaps, have you secured them with electrical ties?
If you have alloys, have you bought a set of those security nuts that you need a special spanner-adapter thingymajig for?
Have you read any of the manual?
Did you buy new maps?
Answer yes to any of these questions and you certainly have got new car syndrome. I know this because I did a few of these things (not telling you which ones) when I got the first and only new car I’ll ever buy.
A week after I got it a juggernaut reversed into it while it was parked outside the office. :eek:
Scratches? Think yourself lucky, old sausage; but keep a weather eye out for juggernauts.
Yeah, been there, done that. Hell, I got my front bumper replaced after my parking neighbour scratched my car (covered by his insurance) and 3 weeks later I find that another car has scratched my bumper again! (Not his, I checked).
Holy shit!
I now have 4 scratches on my car. I’ll wait till I have a few more before shelling out the money for a new front and rear bumper.
People, machines and animals seek out my Fiat like they have something against the whole country of Italy and need to seek vengence on one of it’s favorite daughters. :sad:
I’ve had two bird-strikes in Das BMW. What does Mother Nature have against it? (but the birds came out the worst for it! )
My buddy bought a new car in college. His girlfriend gave him non stop grief cause he would park in the back of all the parking lots to avoid door dings. To this day I remember when the first ding appeared. It was at Wal Mart and to this day, he still gets anxious about shopping there.
There is certainly something to this NCS. I know scads of people who have had accidents in new cars, all the way from little scratches to completely totaled. Oddly enough, the same friend from above totaled his new Honda Del Sol within 10 days and 899 miles. But it didn’t have a scratch on it til then!
