I’ve done pretty good for myself over the years, and accordingly I managed to acquire a really nice car – it’s one of four hundred and fifty for its model year, and I love it.
Unfortunately, most people view their car as a commute appliance – it’s basically a toaster that takes them places. And this, mixed with the terrible decline in both ‘give a shit’ and ‘general awareness’ makes them dangerous to the average car enthusiast.
Take yesterday for example, I left the office to find a big gouge taken out of the mirror on the passenger side of the car:
That’s a $500 mirror – fortunately it was fixable with a couple bucks of polish and a half an hour with a several hundred dollar tool…
The culprit was a new(er) Hyundai SantaFe driven by a nimrod who was trying to back in like the cool kids in the parking lot:
The impact was the front driver’s side fender – right when he pauses in his parking maneuver.
Of course he didn’t say anything, leave a note, nothing. And he took off a few hours later and almost clipped the curb on the way out…
Just another highly qualified driver on the road.
The firesand orange Jag is one of my CFO’s cars, and he has a reserved spot. Next to him is my HR director’s beat to hell Ford in the CEO’s reserved spot that he somehow inherited… Meanwhile I park my 1-of-450 race-car in the mix with the morons and just try to buff out the stupidity.
I keep telling my CFO that I don’t want the all expense paid trip to Vegas like the other 20+ year employees got – all I want is a parking spot where my car won’t get fucked up.
So far this hasn’t resulted in anything… But he did help me buff out this latest incident. 🙂
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