shakran

Hear hear. To the people that think it's no big deal. . . ok, fine, it's no big deal to YOU. It IS a big deal to other people and you should respect that. Maybe you don't care much about whether your car gets scratched up or not, but many people do. I'm sure YOU have something YOU care about. I'm sure you wouldn't like it if I took a knife and scratched up your diningroom table. Personally, I don't care about tables. As long as they're horizontal and level enough that my soup stays in the bowl, that's good enough for me. Does that mean I shouldn't respect your table when I come to your house?

It's extremely selfish to say "well *I* don't care what *my* car looks like and therefore I don't have to avoid damaging *other people's* cars."


And to the people that think that if I love a car so much I shouldn't drive it daily. Well, yeah, that's pretty much what I do. The good car stays garaged a lot while the crappy car gets driven, because the good car is rare, expensive, and basically irreplacable. I've put a lot of money and time into it. Isn't it a shame that people are so thoughtless that I have to garage that car most of the time just to keep other people from wrecking it?

This thread started out as a bad driver thread (and let's face it. If you can't figure out where the hell your hood ends, you're a bad driver) but really the core issue is respect and responsibility - something Americans largely lack.

Bash up someone's car? That's OK. As long as they didn't see you, you can leave without suffering any consequences. Cashier give you a $20 instead of a $10 for change? No biggie. It's a bonus for you! Never mind that she has to make up for that extra $10 at the end of her shift and that if it happens too often she gets fired. Who cares, you just got $10!

We like to call the 80's the "me" generation. Well I say that's crap, 'cause it didn't end when Reagan left office. Very few people care about ANYTHING other than what makes their personal lives better, and damn the consequences to everyone around them. That's why drought-stricken areas always have the one asshole with a perfectly green lawn - he's violating the water rationing rules because HE wants what HE wants and screw everyone else.

People who cut you off in traffic aren't ignorant. They know better. They just don't give a damn. They want to be where they want to be, and YOU can by-god adjust to allow it.

The past 3 decades (80's thru the 00's) have been the "screw you" years, and this "bumping" problem in this thread is just another example of it. If you don't care about your car, that's fine. Run it into your other car if you want, but keep it the hell away from MY car.