When you leave a 6 inch dent in the door of someone’s brand new Mustang (temp tags still on it, even), it is customary to leave a note or your insurance information. Any decent person who damages something that dosen’t belong to them would take responsibility for their actions and offer to make restitution. But obviously not YOU, you festering hyena turd. :mad:
Since I was parked near the end of the row, and there was plenty of open parking, one can only assume that you actually went out of your way to park next to me and then to be a prick. Way to go, shitbrick.
You have the intelligence of a retarded sea slug. Your mother embezzles from sperm banks. I hope You develop a case of flaming crotch rot.
And when she’s caught and brought before the judge and he asks, “How do you plead?” she’ll go to answer “Not guilty,” but will be told not to speak with her mouth full.
:rolleyes:
I can relate, only I was there when the woman opened her door.
I’m dreading something happening to my MGB. It’s been in restoration for 2½ years. (Got an email from the guy who’s working on it. He said progress is slow. He’s looking for a Lucas vacuum switch for the overdrive.) This will be a beautiful car when it’s done. After waiting so long, I fear an idiot damaging it when I get it back. It would be just my luck.
I’m sorry to hear that. What year is your car? I have a 2005 Mustang that some numbnuts nearly backed right into today. Fortunately, he stopped about 6 inches short.
The most amazing thing I saw was up at the mall last week. Someone had parked into the side of another car - side by side, but so close that the two cars were in complete contact down the side. Apparently they simply left it that way and left to go into the mall, because right as I was walking by, the woman who owned the victimized car was standing there quite upset, with a cell phone, calling for help.
Hentor the Barbarian, that just reminded me of something that happened to me a couple of years ago. My ex-husband, daughter, and I had gone into Subway to get some food to take home, and when we came out there was a Jeep parked next to our passenger’s side so closely that I wondered how the hell the driver had exited the vehicle. Seriously, there was no way I was going to be able to open the door more than a few inches without hitting the driver’s door.
Well, it turned out that the Jeep belonged to the woman who had been behind us in line in the Subway, and she came out right as I was contemplating riding in the back with my daughter. I stood there, more curious than anything, and watched as she eeeeased her bony ass between the cars (touching on both sides), baaaarely cracked her door, and somehow oozed inside. She knew I was watching her, and man, did it piss her off!
The kicker: ours were the only two cars in the parking lot.
It’s a 2006, Hentor . Brand spankin’ new. White, with the “pony package”. I have had it all of a month.
I know it can be fixed, but it pisses me off to no end that someone would be so either a) completely careless or b) intentionally shitty and just drive off.
It also pisses me off that I am the one who is going to have to pay for it :mad:
Oh I hear you. There’s a period of perfection that you just want to savor and make last as long as possible. I’m sorry that some shithead took that away from you.
I did my own myself, so I have nobody to blame - I scuffed the paint off the right rear bumper on a pole. Watch those bumpers. They stick out a bit farther than you think.
Your thread made me check out the new models. I think I like the pony package - it wasn’t availalbe last year. The dealer happened to have a chrome grille package that he offered me, but I declined. Mine’s Sonic Blue with the white sport tape. Do you have leather or cloth?
The sonic blue is gorgeous, Hentor . I almost went that way myself. Mine is white with the black tape…charcoal grey leather interior. And you’re very right about the bumbers. I am still learning exactly where the ends of that car are. I find myself parked too far away from things most of the time because I am being careful. I end up getting back in and pulling up a bit more.
This car means a lot to me for a few reasons. I was in a roll over accident at the end of October and the car I had was completely totalled. I was very lucky to come out of that as well as I did. I’m alive to drive it, so I wanted something I would enjoy. Also something that would encourage me to get out and drive it rather that sit in the house and be afraid.
Man, some of the parking stories people have posted just floor me. I think that’s my new calling. I’m going to become a Super Hero: The Parking Avenger! I’ll run around in tights and a cape, and let the air out of tires of badly parked cars…after securely wrapping the entire vehicle in duct tape, of course…thereby preventing the driving impaired from menacing the rest of society. Mwah ha ha!
So you will have badly parked cars parked longer then they would be otherwise, sounds more like Super Villian, cloging up the parking lots of Amercia with poorly parked cars.
Good - I can say what I thought about the cloth interior on the 2005: it looked horrendous. What was the thinking behind those awful print patterns? Do you know if they kept that the same for the 2006?
And they are awfully fun to drive! I hope you can enjoy it as much as you did before. On the other hand (and I knew this would be the case from my days with a Camaro in the 80’s and early 90’2) they are terrible in the snow!
Just make your Parking Avengermobile a bulldozer, and you’ll be all set. Or a monster truck with a supermagnet boom winch so you can haul away the carcass after you flatten it.
A nice philosophy. When I had MGBs before, and when I had the Porsches, my philosophy was ‘Drive them as they were ment to be driven.’ This increased the frequency of repairs, but it seemed a waste not to use the handling (and yes, speed – in the case of the Porsches anyway) that was designed into them. I never gave a second thought to taking my (then-) new Jeep Cherokee up onto mud-snotty trails after a rain and covering it with mud. I have a couple of legitimate ‘battle scars’ on it from that.
But there’s a difference between using and possibly damaging your own car, and someone else damaging your car. Especially a classic car. OEM MG sheet metal is readily available, thanks to the British Motor Heritage Trust. However I’ve waited entirely too long for this car to be restored. It’s a replica of the hand-me-down car my mother gave me; my first car. I’d hoped to give mom a ride in it, but she’s dead. The best I can do is to drive her and her husband’s ashes to Reno for their aerial burial. I have a lot of emotion invested in this car.
I’ll be upset if something I do damages it. But if some stupid, inattentive yobbo prangs it I will be very angry.
You have my sympathy, Cherry2000. Someone smashed Papa T.'s new car in a parking lot last year when it still had the temporary tags on it, too, smashed in a fender and knocked off the passenger side mirror. The irony was that they did it in the base police station parking lot, and still drove off without leaving identification. I’m still sorry they didn’t manage to catch whoever did it, since it would have been an extra-large book thrown at them. Oh, and worst part? Because he’d just moved from Louisiana to Maryland to start a new job, the insurance was still based in Louisiana – so it cost us a $500 deductible that we wouldn’t have had to pay if the insurance had been moved. He’d only been there about three days at that point! :mad:
The 2006 models have traction control. I’ve taken it out in the snow a couple of times, and it works pretty well!
Mama Tiger , that sucks the big one. And having it happen in the police station parking lot is just insult added to injury :mad:
Johnny L.A. , you have got to post pictures of the MGB when it’s finally finished. It sounds absolutely beautiful. And you’re 100% right: there’s a big difference between accidently damaging your own property and having some dip wad damage something of yours and walk away. It’s a whole different level of pissed off.
I had not put the tag on my 4 Runner when some asshat dinged my back bumper.
Now that many other asshats have joined in the Lets-kill-the-nicest-thing-she-has-ever-owned party, I have several major door dings to accompany the bumper.
I think every moronic mother fucker that dents a car door should roast in hell.
Y’know, if you’re so concerned about getting a dent in your car, maybe you shouldn’t drive it. Shit happens. The person was wrong for not leaving a note, but if you’re going to get that upset, leave it at home.
Yeah, it’s not the end of the world, liberty3701, but if you’ve just collected your brand new ride after you’ve saved up for it, and some shithead damages it and leaves, FUCK YES YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF.
Shit happens indeed, but the asshole shoulda left a note. Period.
Is there some kind of unwritten law these days, that no matter how valid the rant, somewhere down the line a whiner like liberty3701 here comes in to tell the OP to grow up? Damn.
