My Forester has dings and gashes and scrapes all over it and I have no idear how any of 'em got there. Kristin, your little Prius is so cute that I think it can withstand the blemish. You could glue a bandaid to it!
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javachik - Jan 09, 2008 4:21:58 pm PST #1614 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
NoiseDesign - Jan 09, 2008 4:27:25 pm PST #1615 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Note to self, don't park the new car near javachik's forester.
Sorry about the car dings K, seems like that truck is just destined to damage smaller cars and not come out harmed.
Volans - Jan 09, 2008 4:34:12 pm PST #1616 of 10001
move out and draw fire
but I hate the idea of driving around with it looking screwed up
Oh man, you should see the Passat post-Athens. Sometimes I get vaguely embarrassed, because this many dings in America means you can't drive, but currently saving for a house is taking $$ priority.
Still, sorry about Wounded!Car.
Java cat - Jan 09, 2008 4:36:50 pm PST #1617 of 10001
Not javachik
My Forester has dings and gashes and scrapes all over it
Mine too. I figure: a car is a tool, not a decoration.
EpicTangent - Jan 09, 2008 4:52:52 pm PST #1618 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
For me , it was backing into a chain - that I had looked behind my car before I got in, but still didn't see the big chain across the end of the parking lot..... scratches, but annoying and stupid feeling just the same.
Mine was a pole. Coupla days after last Xmas, trying to find parking in the Mission Valley Mall parking structure. Space was narrow, I cut the turn too tight and gave my Ranger some lovely scrapes down the passenger side. I had the body shop next door give me an estimate, but I just don't hate the scrapes $1800 worth. And I have a very graphic reminder of why I Never Park Next to the Poles at Mission Valley.
Plus, it was the first time in a long while I was glad there's no SO in my life. I did a crap driving thing, I feel a little dumb, but I didn't hurt anyone or damage anything that doesn't belong to me - and since there's no SO who knew the truck pre-pole, I don't have to hear about it. Heh.
IOW, try not to beat yourself up Kristin. Apparently, we've all been there.
Laura - Jan 09, 2008 4:54:48 pm PST #1619 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
IOW, try not to beat yourself up Kristin. Apparently, we've all been there.
Some of us more than once.
Cass - Jan 09, 2008 4:58:15 pm PST #1620 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Cass, I'm so sorry my tone came across as snarky. The "to me" was meant as a way to acknowledge that others might feel differently, not to diminish the validity of those feelings.No worries, Kristin. It didn't feel too snarky to me. Just a difference in how we read the posts in question. It happens when you are just seeing words on a screen. Or, at least, when I am.
No real harm, no foul at all.
Sorry about your car.
Pix - Jan 09, 2008 4:58:58 pm PST #1621 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Eh, yeah. Getting over it now. ND thinks he can buff most of the scratches out (I wrote "we" at first, but who am I kidding? I am not allowed to operate machinery such as buffers, as I am liable to do more harm than good), and he's going to look into ordering a new tail light cover and some touch up paint to fix the rest. WBB.
ETA: Thanks, Cass.
Cass - Jan 09, 2008 5:01:38 pm PST #1622 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And I have a very graphic reminder of why I Never Park Next to the Poles at Mission Valley.Hell, I am impressed you park at all at Mission Valley. It's bonkers in those garages.
meara - Jan 09, 2008 5:16:49 pm PST #1623 of 10001
Yep, after five years of parking on the street in DC, my car definitely has more than its share of dings and scrapes. Including one big dent on the passenger side door that I have no idea how it got there. That one, and the one where someone scraped the side of the car WHILE I WAS IN IT (and drove off) bug me. The "someone was parallel parking and did a little bump and grind", NSM. (And the "I can't maneuver and ran into little weird scrapy yellow things in the parking lot" scrapes, those bug too. Sigh)
But none bug me enough to get fixed. Unless I"m selling the car, it's SO just cosmetic.