08-28-2018, 04:23 PM
I’m one of those people who parks waaay out in parking lots to avoid even the possibility of door dings, and when I went to a doctor’s appointment yesterday I wasn’t sure I’d be able to find a safe spot in the hospital parking garage. So imagine my delight when I found an oversized spot at the very end of the row of parking spaces, right next to the stairwell. I even parked as close as I could to the right side of the space, as there was just a wall there and no danger of anyone parking on that side of me.
I come back from my appointment and see a dark spot on the side of my white Golf. Hmm, had I previously overlooked some bird poop on the car? Nope, some asshat dinged my left passenger door so hard it scraped it down to the bare metal. Note that I had parked at least 2-3 feet away from the left side of my parking space, so it would have been physically impossible for a car on my left to ding me without actually being in my parking space. I checked the car next to me (which was parked in the center of its space), and I could tell by the location of the ding it wasn’t the culprit.
My wife speculates that a truck or SUV (because the ding is quite high) encroached in my space, the passenger flung open their door and obviously dinged my car, and then they took off so their vehicle wouldn’t be there when I got back. No note, no apology, no nothing.
I took the car to a well-respected auto body repair place near my home and it will be $140 for paintless dent repair and touch-up painting, though of course the repair won’t bring it completely back to undamaged condition.
I take some solace in knowing I did everything possible to avoid being dinged...but my flawless 1-year old Golf got nailed anyway.
This experience has not exactly improved my already-low opinion of the human race...
miley-rpg028:
I come back from my appointment and see a dark spot on the side of my white Golf. Hmm, had I previously overlooked some bird poop on the car? Nope, some asshat dinged my left passenger door so hard it scraped it down to the bare metal. Note that I had parked at least 2-3 feet away from the left side of my parking space, so it would have been physically impossible for a car on my left to ding me without actually being in my parking space. I checked the car next to me (which was parked in the center of its space), and I could tell by the location of the ding it wasn’t the culprit.
My wife speculates that a truck or SUV (because the ding is quite high) encroached in my space, the passenger flung open their door and obviously dinged my car, and then they took off so their vehicle wouldn’t be there when I got back. No note, no apology, no nothing.
I took the car to a well-respected auto body repair place near my home and it will be $140 for paintless dent repair and touch-up painting, though of course the repair won’t bring it completely back to undamaged condition.
I take some solace in knowing I did everything possible to avoid being dinged...but my flawless 1-year old Golf got nailed anyway.
This experience has not exactly improved my already-low opinion of the human race...
miley-rpg028: