Goddammit.
My car is cursed. It was the first new car I ever got. I loved it. But things just haven't gone well for the old gal. She's been plagued by incident after incident:
1. My dad backed it out of the garage with the hatch open. Scratched the hatch to the metal with the garage door opener.
2. Dad again. While moving the car out of the driveway, backed it into a concrete planter box. Gouged rear bumper and dented rear fender
3. Got stolen while I was Christmas shopping. It was recovered 3 days later with minor damage. Who knows what was done to the clutch...
4. Somebody stepped on the hood (or something) and put a grapefruit-sized dent in it.
5. Got broken into the first week or so I moved to Vancouver. The thief used the "dent the door above the handle" trick which was so popular on this model a while ago...
6. Fixie-pixie idiot considered a my right turn an offense to his no-brakes riding trajectory. Kicked in my rear tail light cracking the lens.
7. While picking my beautiful wife up from work, I attempted (foolishly) to put her bike on the roof rack with my freshly broken hand. I lost my balance and fell into the passenger side door, caving it in. It popped back out, but it left a nice kink. It had just been re-painted...
8. My beautiful wife clipped a column in a parking garage with the rear driver side.
9. Yesterday, the mechanical sub on the jobsite I'm on backed into my driver door.
Unreal. 8 year-old car, 9 incidents. I was involved in 2 of them. Only one of which involved any driving. I maintain that that one wasn't my fault... flame on, no brake retards...
My car is cursed. It was the first new car I ever got. I loved it. But things just haven't gone well for the old gal. She's been plagued by incident after incident:
1. My dad backed it out of the garage with the hatch open. Scratched the hatch to the metal with the garage door opener.
2. Dad again. While moving the car out of the driveway, backed it into a concrete planter box. Gouged rear bumper and dented rear fender
3. Got stolen while I was Christmas shopping. It was recovered 3 days later with minor damage. Who knows what was done to the clutch...
4. Somebody stepped on the hood (or something) and put a grapefruit-sized dent in it.
5. Got broken into the first week or so I moved to Vancouver. The thief used the "dent the door above the handle" trick which was so popular on this model a while ago...
6. Fixie-pixie idiot considered a my right turn an offense to his no-brakes riding trajectory. Kicked in my rear tail light cracking the lens.
7. While picking my beautiful wife up from work, I attempted (foolishly) to put her bike on the roof rack with my freshly broken hand. I lost my balance and fell into the passenger side door, caving it in. It popped back out, but it left a nice kink. It had just been re-painted...
8. My beautiful wife clipped a column in a parking garage with the rear driver side.
9. Yesterday, the mechanical sub on the jobsite I'm on backed into my driver door.
Unreal. 8 year-old car, 9 incidents. I was involved in 2 of them. Only one of which involved any driving. I maintain that that one wasn't my fault... flame on, no brake retards...