Re: Door Ding Protection
Recently I was parked in a local Food Lion and parked way out in the "Boonies" of the lot. I had a perfect view of my car from the supermarket, and my XFire is all alone in that area. After doing a little shopping I take another look and now there is an old beat up "OJ Edition" Bronco pulling in next to my XFire, I tell my Wife that I am going to move the car. I am now about 10 feet from the car when the rear passenger door opens and six kids jump out and did not ding my door. With that said, The father gets out from the drivers side and then the front passenger door is thrown open and his wife gets out (all 400 or so pounds of her) and dings my drivers side door. One of the children says " mommy you put a dent in that car" she proceeds to grab the child and told him to shut up. The women didn't realize that I was the owner of the car and saw the whole thing. The ironic thing is she denied dinging the door, and I was told that I should not park a car like that in a parking lot...go figure. I then told him that he should not park his piece of sh*t, next to my car and he should let his wife ride in the cargo area, and I proceeded to call the cops.
I do live in the South and I carry a Louisville Slugger, a 9 Iron and a Taurus .45 ACP in my trunk. This day I erred on the side of discretion, if the kids were not there the situation might have been different. Once the police arrived the officer told these people that they need to settle this without police intervention because he would have to take her in. The final resolution was that her Husband gave me $100.00 to have the ding pulled out. I have come to the conclusion that people just do not care.
Last edited by CrossfireLTD; Aug 11, 2006 at 11:12 AM.