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This note was left on my car at a car show

I remember, girl in our class, her Dad bought her a 'Vette (yes, in HS). She let her BF drive it ONE TIME (even though her dad told her never to let anyone else drive it). The BF cracked it up...

There might be a lesson in there somewhere, I don't know.
 
Tell him to go to Enterprise to rent a ride.
Aren't there special services to rent performance cars? I think Teslas used to be rented through them, before they became so common that Hertz purchased 100,000 of them.

Edit: Come to think of it, you could rent out your car through a service like that, and maybe even get insurance coverage! 😉
 
Aren't there special services to rent performance cars? I think Teslas used to be rented through them, before they became so common that Hertz purchased 100,000 of them.

Edit: Come to think of it, you could rent out your car through a service like that, and maybe even get insurance coverage! 😉
Turo might work depending on area. Although...it's private individuals' vehicles on that. So the recipe for disaster is still present...
 
Turo might work depending on area. Although...it's private individuals' vehicles on that. So the recipe for disaster is still present...
Assumedly there is insurance tied to each and every rental.

No way I'd let anyone borrow a car of any value unless they correspondingly had insurance above and beyond the value of the vehicle and I chaperoned in some way. Teenagers especially are prone to act like little show off idiots around members of the opposite sex and peers.
 
Assumedly there is insurance tied to each and every rental.

No way I'd let anyone borrow a car of any value unless they correspondingly had insurance above and beyond the value of the vehicle and I chaperoned in some way. Teenagers especially are prone to act like little show off idiots around members of the opposite sex and peers.
Even with insurance for a Turo rental, having some dumbass teen wreck the car and cause a potentially huge mess for liability(if a bunch of passengers or victims get some incident) is a time-eater.
 
The worst that could happen is the kid is working for car thieves and they throw you in the trunk and put it on a container ship headed for Dubai, but they're also smuggling magic mushrooms in the trunk and ants have colonized them, then once the ants realize that you are the only source of food and water in the trunk, they begin to intoxicate you with the psilocybin while they are chewing your eyeballs out, but due to the psychoactive nature of it, your mind still sees them eating you. And you're on a double rainbow.

Meanwhile the 17 year old punk takes the money that the car thieves paid him to lure you in, and rents a limo to go to homecoming, but then your family tracks him down and he is infuriated that his homecoming is ruined so he guns down the whole school and your family, then when the container ship gets to Dubai and they find an eaten carcass and a bunch of ants in the trunk, they decide to burn and crush the car.

We don't get any updated posts from you and keep the thread going for months, wondering what happened. It's the wondering, that's the worst thing.

Lastly, keep in mind that the kid printed that note up before coming to the show, let alone seeing your car. He's been planning this all along. 😀
 
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The worst that could happen is the kid is working for car thieves...

My first thought is this is just car thieves looking for someone to make their lives easier.

Skips needing to break in and bypass ignition locks, when they can just have the gullible give them keys.

I assume the OP posted this sarcastically.
 
Recent years have taught young people that they can get something for nothing. The note was a clear example of that mentality.
 
My first thought is this is just car thieves looking for someone to make their lives easier.

Skips needing to break in and bypass ignition locks, when they can just have the gullible give them keys.

I assume the OP posted this sarcastically.

Some people on here have broken sarcasm detectors. Even those with 20+ years of professional foruming.
 
Recent years have taught young people that they can get something for nothing. The note was a clear example of that mentality.

He probably thought you were someone worth giving a $#!^ about, like a social media influencer or celebrity, wherein you'd have enough money that not only could you afford to write off a car like that you could get publicity and extra fame from first being so nice and then if something happened making it into an even bigger circus.

Clearly he was mistaken. Seriously, dude, no one cares.
 
Aren't there special services to rent performance cars? I think Teslas used to be rented through them, before they became so common that Hertz purchased 100,000 of them.

Edit: Come to think of it, you could rent out your car through a service like that, and maybe even get insurance coverage! 😉

There are. I think Enterprise is the only one of the usual car rental companies that still does though, but there's also specific services (Doug DeMurro often mentioned one where it was like gig economy version of that).

Hertz supposedly signed a deal to buy 100,000 Teslas sometime in the last few years, but I think that's been called into question. It was also through a different company and not a direct deal between Hertz and Tesla if I remember right.
 
Does the car have a backseat? If so, I'd say offer to drive him & his date, chauffeur-style!
 
He probably thought you were someone worth giving a $#!^ about, like a social media influencer or celebrity, wherein you'd have enough money that not only could you afford to write off a car like that you could get publicity and extra fame from first being so nice and then if something happened making it into an even bigger circus.

Clearly he was mistaken. Seriously, dude, no one cares.
You worked it out. That's probably it. Dude.
 
He probably thought you were someone worth giving a $#!^ about, like a social media influencer or celebrity, wherein you'd have enough money that not only could you afford to write off a car like that you could get publicity and extra fame from first being so nice and then if something happened making it into an even bigger circus.

lol @ social media influencers being someone to give a !@#$ about, but at least they DO something that gets attention instead of wanting to borrow someone else's ride to get it.

Just no. Rewarding being at a car show instead of earning money at a J O B so he can pay his own way, doesn't help anyone and sets up liability for loaning (what is probably a high HP) car to a minor, a stranger no less.

I'd argue the opposite, that someone would have to be a real jerk to give a high performance car to a 17 year old kid just so they can feel warm fuzzies about doing so.
 
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