lately ive had a rash ........

some people just dont get it. i have to constantly explain to my wife that just because one parking spot it closer than another doesnt make it better. i would rather park a few rows out and walk than deal with door dings and shopping carts. she thinks the closer to the door the better.

and that is why she has not been taught the "witchcraft" 3-on-tree shifter in the 49. i told her you just have to know where the gears are....its weird science.

 

Doesn't work that way for me... I have an idea for a sticker I want "Touch my car, lose your fingers"

 

The wife and I, took her 56 bird to a cruse in one night. After that we stoped for dinner at a nice place. When we came out, there was a young girl sitting on the back of the car, with her feet on the seat. Her boyfriend was taking her picture with his cell phone. They couldn't understand why I got so upset. The boyfried said " its just an old car, my dad got a bmer thats way nicer." I just don't understand some people.

 

I know how you feel man. My wife had a night out with her friends the other night, and look what some ass**** did to her car!

 

I hate it when that happens...

 

MY GOD MAN...........you let your wife drive a volvo?????????

 

You know what's even better? When you walk out of a busy grocery store and two guys are behind your car stealing part of the bumper.

 

The last little local car show that I had my T in, I had just put some new tires on the front, and they still had all of the little tits all over them. There was this group of lookie loos hanging around the car and with them was a SWEET young thing! So I'm just watching from a distance and the sweetie pie starts to rub her hands all over my tires, where the little tits were, and appeared to be having some kind of an orgasm. This went on for some time; my parts girl that I deal with at O'Reillys even noticed it. I didn't say a word! pigpen



"Rub ME! Rub ME! Rub ME!"

 

Caught some asshole with his foot planted firmly on my tire at Pistons and Paint because he got tired of holding himself up. Not posing for pictures, not checking out the car, just standing around with a bunch of friends. Some people don't understand the meaning of the word respect.

Matter of fact, this is him. He signed up here not to defend himself, or to offer any kind of apology, but to try and be a smartass. He failed.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/member.php?u=32358

 

I looked at his post... thats hallarious

 

This can be a touchy topic (pun intended.) When I had my nice finished car years ago I caught some guy sitting on the hood at a local cruise night - almost ended up in a fight over that one. Here lately, I'm not so worried as my car is kinda rough, so it wouldn't bother me too much - hell I've been climbing and sitting on it for a year and a half now. I may leave it unfinished for the very reason that I won't be able to keep other people from messing it up - that and I don't mind people checking it out. On the other hand, I'm constantly on cart duty when I go to the store. I can't stand people running carts into people's cars even if they aren't mine. I guess you could say I respect other people's rides, but don't want to have to guard mine if I decide to park it somewhere.

 

it's luck your headlights have the washer/wipers on it...............

 

At a swap meet A lady actually set her baby on the hood of a frend of mines 57 Chev and chainged its diaper. Granted it was a lousy looking car but it didn't deserve that shit.

 

" STAGE 5 SHIT" That is funny as hell !!!

 

It's not that I'm afraid of people messing up my car, it's that I don't think they should be touching someone else's stuff. Where were these people born, a barn?

I learned how to treat other people's things when I was very young when I went to car shows with my dad. If we even wanted to get close to a car, we'd have to put our hands behind our backs and lean over to look inside the cars, because we didn't want to stand to close to another guy's car.

It's a good habit, I think.

 

yeah it can suck. but ya know, it is fun for sure to fuck with the people when you catch them. act like youre way more pissed than you actually are.

 

My fear is the E-room visit, stitches and the tetnus shot that I'll have to pay for if somebody touches my p.o.s!

 

exactly what my pops taught me too!! why the hellcant other people get this concept!

 

Even this often doesn't help - I regularly park my O/T sportscar at the far end of the lot and will inevitably come out & find it covered in greasy paw prints or some POS parked so close I can barely get in the door - yet the rest of the lot is empty!!
I try to keep from having sense of humour failure, but it still gets irritating. It is a simple matter of respect.

Barry

 

i say screw longhorn.

 

lots of people feel the same as me i see.
wow, im a hot head sometimes too, i like people diggen my ride just not touchen it, unless shes fine, hah and sometimes that dont help..

 

I was at the local car wash, which was the hangout back then. Had my 71 GS convertible out, had just got married a few weeks before. I was not ten feet from it, with my back turned talking to my buddies when my wife says "hey, some guy is sitting on your car". I turn and sure enough this douche is all hopped up on my fender. And this ain't no POS either, it was clean and shiny. I said "i'll fix that" and hit the remote to the alarm. It beeped and he popped up and looked around like he had been stung by a bee. next time I won't be so nice.

And I teach my kids to put their hands behind the back and lean to look at cars too, even if we are at a buddies house where its ok. I don't want no scratches happening on my watch.

 

As many of you know, I am in the middle of completely stripping down my car and prepping her for a paint job. Before I started, the primer on her hood and deck lid were pretty rough, so I never really minded if friends leaned on her, hung out on her, but it was alway people I knew, and they were careful, even with the flaking primer.

Once her paint is done, I know I'll be a lot more obsessive about her, but she's still a daily driver, and I don't ever want her to be so "precious" that I lose my mind if someone dares to even breathe on her. . .

However. . .imagine my surprise and rage to walk out to my parking lot one morning and find a construction crew eating breakfast tacos on my freakin' deck lid. . .


I think two of them wet themselves at the sight of a 5'5" screamin' pig-tailed grrl coming at them, shouting obscenities at top volume, across the parking lot. I must have looked like a she-devil on fire.

When the construction foreman had the audacity to tell me that it "wasn't a problem," and he thought it was just some "old abandoned POS," I think my face split open and fire shot out of my eye sockets.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. You may not like Edsels. You may think the horsehoe collar looks like a urinal. You may not "have any use" for the Edsel, as I've been told by certain folks around here. . .

But my car is NOT a picnic table.

It is about respect, folks. . plain and simple.

My momma always told me, if it ain't yours, don't freakin' touch it.

 

I was raised by my old man to fold my hands behind my back and lean in to check out someone else's stuff. I still catch myself doing that at car shows. It's just ingrained into my brain. I was raised to respect other people's stuff.

Once, about a gazillion years ago, I had an O/T pickup with a fresh pearl and kandy paint job. So fresh, I hadn't even washed it yet. I parked at a K-Mart, way out in the boonies. There must have been 30 spaces between me and the next car. When I came back out, some butt nozzle is parked right next to me in a rusty, early 80's Riviera. As I got close to my truck, the aforementioned ass hat opened his driver's door and BAM!!! Took a 2" tall chunk out of my fresh paint job. I yelled at him, he lunged at me and.... well, I won't bore you with the details, but I got 2 years suspended imposition of sentence for "felonious assault with intent to do bodily harm". Had to go to anger management classes, pay his hospital bill and pay for a lawyer. I'm older and more mellow now. Now I see that fixing the paint would have been a lot cheaper. Live and learn. Still, if someone can't respect my property or that of others, I get pretty steamed.

 

Haha just read thru a lot of the posts and thought, next time you see that guy touching your car say to him" they say our cars are an extension of our "manhood", would you like to touch the rest of my manhood?" bet he will run a (4sec quater) mile from you... oh just in case do a visual homosexual/redneck check before using that line or you might just get more than you bargined for.

 

I once kicked a giant dent in a....uhh...... much nicer, newer car of the bitch that flung her door into my old '61 Bel Air.

Scenario played out something like:

Me sitting in my car, waiting on my (much) younger sis to break from school.

Car pulls into a spot next to me. Lady sits in car for a second. Obviously waiting on a student as well. Decides she wants a cigarette, but not in her own vehicle.

*BAM* Door hits my car hard enough to hear over the radio. Lady pretends not to notice.

Me: "Uh, lady, what the hell are you doing?"
Lady: "What?"
Me: "You just hit my car with your door.:
Her: "Yeah, so?"
Me: "So? How about paying a little more f..king attention to what's around ya instead of that cancer stick."
Her: "Oh well. It's just an old car."

At that point, I got out calmly walked over to her....much newer, much nicer automobile, and put a footprint sized dent in her quarter panel. Lady didn't say a word. Got back in my car, and went about my biz. Sure she took some paint off the door of my 'ol girl, but at least she has (probably to this day) a reminder of how that dent got there the next time she tries to fling her door into the "old car" next to her....

 

the easy way to fix this problem would be to ask to see the picture on the jerkoff's phone, real nice like. If he is stupid enough to show you, snach the phone and give it a nice toss across the parking lot. Tell em " Hell, its just a cheep shit phone!"

 

My momma always told me, if it ain't yours, don't freakin' touch it. [/quote]

Amen

 

Wish I'd have thought of that...

 

like some one on here said before, people just don't have any respect for other peoples stuff, it's really sad that people think that they can touch/lean on cars, when they have no idea how much time and money you've put into them. it is really sad, but unfortunatley it's a problem that will never go away.