well, I'm not looking for a fight here, but #1 sky_driver's wife probably DID damage the car - you might not see it, but unless her car is made out of marshmallow, she most likely damaged the clearcoat, which is the protectant for the paint, which can and will lead to paint chipping, etc. #2 if I hit someone's car, I would leave a note explaining what happened and how to contact me. Did she do that? #3 you're saying you're careful with the miata 'cause Ratbastid will "kill" you if you scratch it. Well, if you can scratch the miata by bumping into a car in the parking lot, it stands to reason that the other car can and will get scratched as well. It would therefore behoove us to be careful in parking lots.
I also note with interest that only when you got something *you* cared about (the miata) did you correct your behavior. That indicates that you KNEW it was wrong to begin with but since (in your own words) your car was "ugly" and had dings already, you didn't care about it so you didn't bother correcting the issue. In other words, only when the damage would effect you personally did you stop bumping into things. That DOES point to the problem of "me" and "screw you" we are having in society, because it's the same attitude shared by the majority of people out there.
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And if I ever actually damaged someone's car (and touching their bumper is well short of "wrecking" someone's car) I'd take care of it.
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That's great! Unfortunately, that didn't happen at the school, according to the original poster. They both just walked in without leaving a note. That's not taking care of the problem.
BTW, if I had a problem with scratching other people's tables with knives, I'd stop using knives around their tables until I had acquired the skills necessary to avoid making the knife and table intersect. I'd also TELL them if I scratched their table, and <i>insist</i> on paying to have it fixed. Again, according to the thread starter, this didn't happen when she bumped the car at the school.
Sure, if someone bumps into my car by accident, I'm not gonna beat the crap out of 'em or anything. I will expect them to pay for the repair, however, and if they try to skulk off without admitting to what they did, I'll get pissed. I will also get irritated if I find out they bump into stuff routinely and have never bothered to learn how to avoid it. Seriously, WTF? Driving without hitting stuff is not rocket science. It'd take about 10 minutes MAX of practice to figure out where the corners of your car are. If you're bumping stuff regularly, why the hell wouldn't you take that 10 minutes to permanently stop the problem? If for some reason someone just can't figure it out, they sell products that tell you when you're getting close to something. Perhaps that would be a good investment for the driving-challenged.
I'm not saying you or anyone else is bad or evil. It's just a fact of society today that we have been conditioned to not care about stuff unless it personally effects us. It's a societal problem that needs correcting, IMHO, but I don't see that happening any time soon :/