Mrrr. Advice from the peanut gallery?

[eramundo]

So you're in a shared driveway situation with a really sweet old lady who has been there for almost a year now without mishap

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[aphelion_orion]

D: Man that sucks. I hate it when people don't own up to what they did. Seriously, a simple note with a phone number in the windshield is just common courtesy (supposing it was not, in fact, the neighbor).

[mewsrissicat]

As someone who also shares a driveway, I'm especially sorry to hear about that - People need to make more of an effort to be decent to one another.

[eramundo]

I'm just bemused by the pettiness of it all. If it was a serious collision, I'd call insurance and be done with it, and just be bitching about the deductable. but no, it has to be one of those 'dings' where the cost to fix is probably right at the same level as the deductable :-) so annoying :0D

March has been full of such small vindictive little 'gotchas' so far, and it's only the second week :-D (I'll still count it as an improvement over February though!)

[mewsrissicat]

Sing it.

You're talking to the woman who JUST had the gutter fall off of the front of her house.

Sigh. I *used* to have a tax return. I remember it fondly as a dream of a few new electrical appliances.

[eramundo]

Dooooooooht

stupid gutters. my landlord has solved this problem by just not bothering to replace the gutters as they rust out/fall off...

we won't talk about the poor state of the wooden frame of my building. Or the double-tandem-wide squirrel holes in the eaves... Yet another reason why I should move soon

poor you.

[bk1e]

Sorry to sow the seeds of doubt, but do you always walk around your car and give it a visual once-over before you drive it? If not, how do you know the damage didn't occur somewhere else, prior to the weekend?

When I noticed that my Honda Civic's emblems had been stolen, my first thought was "OMG, someone stole my emblems from the work parking lot!" Then I remembered that I had been to the mall the night before. :)

Of course, on the day after Halloween a few years ago, when the folks at Discount Tire asked me, "did you know that all of the lug nuts on your rear passenger-side wheel are gone except for the lock nut?", you'd think I would have started paying more attention to the state of my car before driving it. :(

[eramundo]

you make an excellent point (and yes I remember your poor emblems!)Stupid kids.

wow about the lugnuts. wtf was that all about? (someone really needs lugnuts! I guess.)

as it turns out my Det. Conan abilities at observation was purely by luck. The damage is on the side of the car I walk up to every morning/afternoon on my approach to get in, and so was right in front of my nose as a 'change' (if it'd been on the other side of the car, or the front bumper, it'd have probably been weeks before I'd noticed and freaked out). Sadly this is also the more 'vunderable' corner of the car as anyone doing a turn in the end of my driveway, or my poor neighbor would probably hit me on that side more than the other :-/

I'm inclined to think it was some yutz who failed at doing a 3 point turn or a delivery truck or something. A big enough vehicle and they wouldn't have even felt a scrape style colision like this.

This reminds me, I need to rotate my tires though. Ever since the blow out I had a while back the ride has been rough.

[bk1e]

With the lug nuts, I assumed that the lock nuts prevented someone from stealing my wheels and leaving my car up on blocks. But you're right, it could have been petty lug nut theft instead.