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Old 11-24-2003, 09:01 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally posted by shakran
#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.
Listen, I NEVER defended what I did. I simply admitted that I have bumped people's cars, and that I started being a lot more careful when I realized that people give a shit if their car gets scratched. I was giving advice to the original poster about what worked to make me more cognizant. And then all of a sudden people are saying I'm negligent, a rotten driver, they'd beat the shit out of someone who bumped their car, and that I'm an example of the selfishness rampant in our society. I'm not defending anything, simply saying that you're all loony for going off the deep end on this one.

There's a difference between saying "People who bump cars are blameless" which is what I'm NOT saying...

...and "So someone bumped your car. Get over it" which is what I AM saying.

I'm not arguing about the rightness or wrongness of parking skills, I'm arguing about the ridiculousness of getting bent out of shape over this.
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