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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / July 2005Two More Reasons Why I Ride the Train to Work
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg No, this didn't happen to me - I found it on another forum. Basically he was parked at a Dairy Queen when two SUVs came and parked on either side of him, and BOTH opened their doors and smacked into the sides of his car. They pretended not to notice and, when they came out of the DQ, they drove off without offering to pay for the damage. This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener banging into your car with his rake, or Manuel the Roofer spraying little flecks of roofing tar all over your paint. what is the story >This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener >banging into your car with his rake, or Manuel the Roofer spraying >little flecks of roofing tar all over your paint. I prefer using my car to keeping it pristine. >>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener >>banging into your car with his rake, or Manuel the Roofer spraying >>little flecks of roofing tar all over your paint. > > I prefer using my car to keeping it pristine. I prefer using my car, but *not* having someone f*ck it up, to using it and having tar sprayed on it, or dents smashed into the doors. Bernard >>>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >>>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >I prefer using my car, but *not* having someone f*ck it up, >to using it and having tar sprayed on it, or dents smashed into the doors. You don't really have that choice. If you're going to bring it out in public, sh.t will happen to it. If you're not, why do you have it? >>>>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >>>>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > You don't really have that choice. If you're going to bring it out in > public, sh.t will happen to it. If you're not, why do you have it? I said "I prefer" not "I choose to". >>> I prefer using my car to keeping it pristine. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >You don't really have that choice. If you're going to bring it out in >public, sh.t will happen to it. If you're not, why do you have it? I haven't had any sh.t happen to any of my vehicles since 1991. >>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener >>banging into your car with his rake, or Manuel the Roofer spraying >>little flecks of roofing tar all over your paint. > >I prefer using my car to keeping it pristine. I've put 7000 miles on my car in the last 6 months. I simply prefer to drive it when driving is PLEASURABLE as opposed to STRESSFUL. >>>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >>>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I've put 7000 miles on my car in the last 6 months. I simply prefer to > drive it when driving is PLEASURABLE as opposed to STRESSFUL. Please tell me where that pleasurable driving place is! ;-) > >>This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my > >>car to work. If it's not careless co-workers, it's Jose the Gardener [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I've put 7000 miles on my car in the last 6 months. I simply prefer to > drive it when driving is PLEASURABLE as opposed to STRESSFUL. Driving a beater is WAY less stressful -- you know that there's nothing on the road that can bash your car up any worse than it's already been bashed. Them Caltrans people sure know how to work over a truck! Friend just bought his ex-wife's 6-year-old Toyota Solara at a whopping discount. She kept it immaculate; it looks showroom fresh -- except for a tiny foot-long crease in the passenger door. I told him to leave it -- if he fixes it he will cry when the next one happens.  SignatureCheers, Bev -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." -- Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 >> >I prefer using my car to keeping it pristine. >> >> I've put 7000 miles on my car in the last 6 months. I simply prefer to >> drive it when driving is PLEASURABLE as opposed to STRESSFUL. > >Driving a beater is WAY less stressful It's also WAAAAY less pleasurable. ;) > <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > It's also WAAAAY less pleasurable. ;) Yeah, well.... AC would be plenty nice, though. SignatureCheers, Bev ==================================== Start worrying -- details to follow. >> Driving a beater is WAY less stressful > It's also WAAAAY less pleasurable. ;) Depends on what features you care about having. Certainly a beater lets you enjoy doing some truly righteous things, like parking 1/2 inch from the drivers-side door of the guy with the BMW who parks in the middle of two parking spaces. >>> Driving a beater is WAY less stressful > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >the drivers-side door of the guy with the BMW who parks in the middle of >two parking spaces. I hear ya. I've often fantasized about driving a '72 Plymouth Fury around for a while just to dish out some payback to all the MFFYs who ordinarily get away with their bullshit because their victims are afraid that their nice cars will be damaged. >http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >This is the kind of sh.t that makes me glad I don't have to drive my >car to work. ^^^^^^^ Yeah, I'm so with you here. Because this kind of thing could never happen on the weekend. >>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Yeah, I'm so with you here. Because this kind of thing could >never happen on the weekend. Manuel the Roofer and Jose the Gardener don't work weekends. When you're touring, you're with your car most of the time and moving, not parked in one place for 8 hours at a time. Bottom line, the chances of having your car damaged by careless boors is greatly reduced if it's not a daily driver. >>>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Manuel the Roofer and Jose the Gardener don't work weekends. Lots of gardeners work weekends. Though I've actually never had my car damaged by a roofer or a gardener; I suspect you're just being a racist a.shole here. >When you're touring, you're with your car most of the time and moving, >not parked in one place for 8 hours at a time. Right, because lots of people park at a Dairy Queen for 8 hours at a time. Oh, wait... maybe that's your problem, maybe you WORK at the Dairy Queen. You know, you're supposed to park your car in the back of the lot and leave the best spots for the customers. > Manuel the Roofer and Jose the Gardener don't work weekends. they do around here.... > >http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Yeah, I'm so with you here. Because this kind of thing could > never happen on the weekend. Yeah, no way something like this could happen on a Saturday night at, let's say, Dairy Queen? lol > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > banging into your car with his rake, or Manuel the Roofer spraying > little flecks of roofing tar all over your paint. Would it have made any difference if those SUVs were pickup trucks or vans (which is to say other truck-based vehicles)? How about if those other vehicles were cars, or station wagons, or anything else with doors? Perhaps if it were a car sitting at just teh right height with jsut the right shape of door, and the OP on the other forum has a car with those cheesy looking 'door protector' thingamabobs the damage would have been avoided. Anyhow, typical liberal response... Blame anything except the problem, which is careless, rude and downright sleazy people. > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/jasoncarle/incidentatDQ.jpg > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Would it have made any difference if those SUVs were pickup trucks or vans > (which is to say other truck-based vehicles)? Yes. Then the story would have been "...then two truck-based vehicles...". What a stupid question. > How about if those other > vehicles were cars, or station wagons, or anything else with doors? Are you trying to say this was an anti-SUV rant? > Perhaps > if it were a car sitting at just teh right height with jsut the right shape > of door, and the OP on the other forum has a car with those cheesy looking > 'door protector' thingamabobs the damage would have been avoided. Or *maybe*, if the SUV drivers had been concerned about anything except their ice-cream fix, they would have taken care not to slam their doors into the car next to them. > Anyhow, typical liberal response... Blame anything except the problem, which > is careless, rude and downright sleazy people. Jeez, a stupid question and a stupid nonsensical piece of conservative propaganda. Scott wasn't blaming the SUVs. Why is it, do you think, that when you go to those paces that have parking designated for compact cars, the non-compacts mostly likely to be taking up 1.2 spaces happen to be SUVs? Could it be that those folks who value fashion over most everything are MFFY to the core? I like those folks - I can fit my compact, beater VW into the slot to their right, and since there is no mirror on that side of my car (yes, it came that way from the factory), I can park within an inch of their driver-side door. Even the SUV drivers that can actually fit their Exploder within the stripes finds their driver door within a foot or so of my passenger door, and my tires are entirely within my own space. It's even more fun when some jerk tries to take two regular spots - that GTI can fit between that car and the stripe, with some room to spare. I might have to crawl out the hatch, but hey. :) In college, one of my buddies liked to open his door repeatedly into cars that parked too close to him. I've thought about it a few times in the above scenarios, but never do it. Pissing off a MFFY parker isn't illegal, yet. E.P. >> Would it have made any difference if those SUVs were pickup trucks or vans >> (which is to say other truck-based vehicles)? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Are you trying to say this was an anti-SUV rant? Some people are so hyper-sensitive. Either that or they're just looking for some trumped-up excuse to pick a fight. It's getting so you can't even make a simple observation anymore without some nitwit calling "racism" or "anti-SUVism" or "sexism" or "liberalism" or some other such bullshit. >> Anyhow, typical liberal response... Blame anything except the problem, which >> is careless, rude and downright sleazy people. > >Jeez, a stupid question and a stupid nonsensical piece of conservative >propaganda. Scott wasn't blaming the SUVs. What's really hilarious is I'm anything BUT a liberal. That's just one more thing that Cory "Know-It-All-College-Kid" Dunkle is mistaken about. :) |
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