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So guess who gets his car back? I've warned the mrs time and time again to slow the f down and be more careful with it, but she drives like shes a character on mariokart. For some dumb reason she put an office chair in the garage to be thrown out, but it just hasn't been done yet. I came home last night to find the office chair pinned between the brand new car and the end of the garage wall. She didn't even notice she'd done it, and yep, shes scratched and dented the panel. Accidents happen, but i've been warning her for WEEKS something like this was going to happen. I didnt yell but MAAAAAN I am pissed.
She needs a tennis ball on a piece of string suspended from the roof. When the ball hits the windscreen you know to stop.
Or she could just reverse in. Its a 2023 "Luxury" (cough bullshit cough) SUV. its got reverse parking sensors. There were so many points at that this was a preventable accident, and she knew how obsessed I was with looking after it I just cant accept she was unintentionally this oblivious.
REVERSE SENSORS and it still happened?
Nah, that's car privileges lost right there. Also, when parking one should always to reverse into the spot if practical.
Oh please. May I remind you both that it was a minor bingle with an office chair. Shit happens. No one died. Lucky it was in the garage and not in an actual public parking spot.
Completely avoidable damage to a new car. I'd be frustrated and upset too.
But, I am very critical of poor driving and parking, so my judgment in such situations will always be very harsh ๐
A minor bingle that she was warned time and time and time again would happen if she wasn't more careful? Thats not an accident, its ignorance. I get some people dont really care, a car is a car and thats totally fine but there is a lot of history here and I lost my pride and joy and ended up with this SUV. I offered it to her when she needed a new car "no no no" she says "I want my own". Sure. We buy something together and she immediately steals my SUV and scratches it, thats shitty no matter how you look at it.
Did you get rid of the office chair after it happened?
She did, yes.
Well that's good. That's a start. It doesn't matter how many times someone warns you about something, these things happen. I didn't realise how upset this has made you so I apologise for that.