So how wrong is it to return a dent in your car

[Colt45]

if you actually witness the ding in progress, go for it.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Originally posted by: aphex
New Car = Always park far away

at which point does it turn old?

When you get your first ding

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: Alistar7
Buy a gun and hide in your trunk. If you feel/hear anyone banging their door into yours, jump out and waste them on the spot.

That made me lol

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
and my family thinks I'm crazy because I park a mile away. I don't want anyone banging my doors.

im the asshole who parks next to you when you park a mile away

no you aren't, really? that's so vindictive.

There are people that do that here...usually in beaters/monster trucks and park extremely close. They think it's funny and the person has no way to get into their car unless they go in from the passenger side.

Worse are the people that don't want to park far away so they double park diagonally in a space usually with $30-40k cars. I can see if you have a car that cannot be replaced and there were no other options available for parking...but average mill cars with tens of thousands of replacement panels available no way.

I have seen incidents of cops investigating these cars when they were vandalized.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
As another example:

When I lived in an apartment about 10 years ago I had a neighbor who constantly dinged the hell out of my passenger's side with her driver's side door. We had assigned parking so I knew it was her. In fact I had seen her do it a couple of times.

I had talked to her about it and told her to cut it out. Our spots were plenty wide enough that she should be able to open the doors of her Honda without issue. Hell I drove a Dodge Durango and never opened my door into the neighbor to the next of me.

Anyway....I was just getting ready to leave for work one morning when she pulled into her spot, opened her door hard into my Durango then proceeded to walk to her apartment. I got out of my car and yelled at her about it and she made some smart ass remark. At that point I started kicking the shit out of her driver's side door until I had caved it in. She came running up screaming at me about it. I told her I had warned her plenty of times to stop fucking dinging me or it was going to cost her then got in my Durango and left.

Shortly after that she and her idiot boyfriend, who I had to pull a gun on twice, were both killed while driving drunk.

Sometimes the universe really does clean itself up quite nicely.

did you get them drunk before or after you shot them?

 

[Injury]

I parked in a garage at college. My car has a fair number of dings. What pisses me off the most is that when people put a nice shiny ding in the side and then try to wipe it away with their fingers and a little spit... it's like a beacon to me when I come out to my car that says "Hey, here's a new one for your collection!". I mean, it's one thing to do it and not realize it, but it's pretty low to do it, try to wipe it off (like it ever works.), and not at least leave a note that says "Sorry. ". I'm not looking for a new paint job, just an apology. But I swear that if I see you ding my door and not leave a note... I will fling mine open as fast and as hard as I can... then a few more times in other spots as I back out.

I respect your property and can admit when I screw up, if you can't do the same I'll help you realize it. I'm not that vengeful of a person, and in almost any other situation I don't agree with "eye for an eye" but when you spend a few years of your life paying for something it tends to irritate a person much faster when people degrade it.


Edit: Out of curiosity, how many people would leave an apology if you dinged a door, or expect a ding in return?

 

[TwiceOver]

I door dinged my own car after owning for less than a month. Man I felt stupid.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: shinerburke
I always retaliate.

For example:

A couple of weeks ago I went out to get in my car to go to lunch and a jackass in a pickup had parked so close to me that before he could even pull in all the way he had to get out and fold my side mirror in.

I came back to my office, retrieved a couple of screwdrivers, a hex driver and printed out a sign that said "Learn how to park you inconsiderate fuck!" then returned to his truck and took his side mirrors off and put them in the bed of his truck with the sign taped to them.

Then I went to lunch.

lol... thought you were going to "key" those words into his truck. This was a lot more toned down.

To the second example... WOW. I will refrain from commenting on the right and wrong.

My temper got out of control much easier back then.

Hell in college I threw a brick through a guy's car windows because I had seen him back into my Blazer while sitting on the balcony of my apartment.

I yelled at him to wait there, but he kept walking. By the time I made it downstairs he was walking down the sidewalk to his apartment. I yelled for him to stop and started running but he made it to his door and went inside. I started knocking and ringing his doorbell but he wouldn't come out of his apartment. I finally got pissed off and went an found a few bricks and tossed them through his windows and bounced a couple of the hood of his car just for good measure.

You have a temper? SHENS!