# There are rules. One is YOU DON'T MESS WITH A PERSON'S CAR! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634 "2015-01-22T23:53:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/1 "2015-01-22T23:53:24Z")
The SO came home early. She’s still in orientation for her new job, and they let her and the other nurse leave to finish computer-based training at home. Someone tagged her truck. She _loves_ her truck. It’s a 2000 Toyota Tacoma SR5 with a four-cylinder engine and manual transmission. Those are pretty rare, as virtually every other one I see is a PreRunner with a six-sylinder engine. It’s exactly the truck she wanted. People have come up to the door asking to buy it. And that was _before_ she had it repainted last year. And some bonebag drew a crude, two-inch picture of an upward-pointing penis and testicles on the side of it with a Sharpie. She was able to use wax to almost get rid of it. It’s very faint now, and you can’t really see it from four feet away. I assume that with the occasional washing and waxing, and just being in the sun (when it comes out in a few months) it will go away completely. She’s pissed off. _I’M_ pissed off. You see, there are Rules. I think of them as Guy Rules, but this one applies to everyone: **YOU DON’T MESS WITH A PERSON’S CAR!** :mad: This is one of those things that Just Isn’t Done. The people who tend to hang around the Greyhoud station are, for the most part, not stellar citizens. Or at least they give that appearance. The office is in the ferry building and people use a different lot, but people have feet after all. The SO says that’s the last time she’s parking her truck there. She’ll drive my Cherokee. She wants to know, ‘Why _my_ cute little truck? Why not the Beemer next to it?’ . ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/2 "2015-01-23T01:04:52Z")
Sharpie is alcohol-soluble; a rag soaked in rubbing alcohol might remove the last of it. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/3 "2015-01-23T01:46:04Z")
Look on the bright side. At least it was erect. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘Why _my_ cute little truck? Why not the Beemer next to it?’ > > . Easy. All Beemers already have pricks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/4 "2015-01-23T01:47:07Z")
the worst thing about being human is having to deal with other humans. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/5 "2015-01-23T02:17:30Z")
Try a baby wipe. That’s what we use in the office to get Sharpies off the whiteboards. Works like a charm (on the whiteboards, at least). ---
**Author:** ![straight\_doped](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@straight\_doped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_doped)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/6 "2015-01-23T02:30:35Z")
wax on wax off ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/7 "2015-01-23T02:42:12Z")
Yup. No argument here. You don’t mess with people’s stuff, especially their cars! And x1000 when it comes to motorbikes, or any special or unusual car ---
**Author:** ![Private\_Public](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Private\_Public](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Public)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/8 "2015-01-23T03:58:08Z")
You are never to mess with anyone’s vehicle. No matter what. That is just wrong. I feel for your wife. I have a 1999 Toyota Tacoma SR5, V6, 5 spd, 4x4. Last company I worked for, someone was always messing with my truck. I’m the original owner, and so, have grown quite fond of my truckie. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/9 "2015-01-23T07:00:44Z")
Obligatory _Pulp Fiction_ clip. (NSFW) [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TSsS-mB6c) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/10 "2015-01-23T12:37:38Z")
**Accidental Martyr** , please use a spoiler box with NSFW links to comply with our two-click rule. Thanks, **twicks** ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/11 "2015-01-23T13:06:54Z")
> [@Essured](#): > > Yup. No argument here. You don’t mess with people’s stuff, especially their cars! > > And x1000 when it comes to motorbikes, or any special or unusual car Messing with someone’s bike is grounds for justifiable homicide, IMPO. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/12 "2015-01-23T13:28:54Z")
> [@phall0106](#): > > Try a baby wipe. That’s what we use in the office to get Sharpies off the whiteboards. Works like a charm (on the whiteboards, at least). I presume it would get Sharpie off the baby butts too. [Bill Engvall] Has this become a problem? [/Bill Engvall] ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/13 "2015-01-23T13:40:21Z")
Everybody loves their cars… everybody (seems) to want to get over on everybody else while driving them and gets pissed when bad things happen to them, either moving or parked. I get that; I feel that feeling too. Still, though a Bentley is expensive (pulling an example out of thin air), even it depreciates down to nothing over time. I’ve always thought that the only time violence re: a car is ever justified is if they are trying to intentionally damage your car with their car while you are driving and when they are actively putting you in fear for your life. The courts might disagree though. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/14 "2015-01-23T13:52:04Z")
I’ve always been in favor of punishing vandals in the most draconian fashion. They are motivated purely by spite and I have no trace of mercy or forgiveness for them in my heart. Catch one messing with your ride? I’ll hold him for you while you cram that sharpie/spraycan into/up whichever of his orifices you choose. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/15 "2015-01-23T14:05:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Easy. All Beemers already have pricks! 😃 LOL, my brother almost bought a Beamer last month but decided against it because then he would have to start driving like an asshole! 😃 > [@Scumpup](#): > > I’ve always been in favor of punishing vandals in the most draconian fashion. They are motivated purely by spite and I have no trace of mercy or forgiveness for them in my heart. Catch one messing with your ride? I’ll hold him for you while you cram that sharpie/spraycan into/up whichever of his orifices you choose. Yep, I haven’t heard that Michael Fay has spray-painted any more cars. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/16 "2015-01-23T14:12:12Z")
> [@straight\_doped](#): > > wax on > wax off You know, I almost didn’t get this joke. Very well played. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/17 "2015-01-23T14:42:45Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Sharpie is alcohol-soluble; a rag soaked in rubbing alcohol might remove the last of it. Hair spray works too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/18 "2015-01-23T15:15:10Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > I’ve always been in favor of punishing vandals in the most draconian fashion. They are motivated purely by spite and I have no trace of mercy or forgiveness for them in my heart. Catch one messing with your ride? I’ll hold him for you while you cram that sharpie/spraycan into/up whichever of his orifices you choose. Catch him in the act, pin him down, take his Sharpie, and use it to write ‘I DRAW PENISES ON CARS’ on his forehead and a duplicate of his oIo on each cheek. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/19 "2015-01-23T15:45:34Z")
Naw, you gotta draw a car on his penis. Tit-for-tat. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-rules-one-is-you-dont-mess-with-a-persons-car/710634/20 "2015-01-23T16:08:34Z")
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