Do unto others - just the slightest bit of care.

[Shannow]

Filled up the truck today with diesel.

Went to Woolworths to get groceries, and came out to find a great big white door swipe across my blue paint...wasn't there when I fueled up, but must have been the obese woman with the trolley and the mobile who was loading up the white car next to me as we parked.

Walked down the street for lunch, and witnessed an old fogey in a camry (with tow bar) apparently nudge park between a brand new Black Mazda 3 and an older ute. Hopped out of the car, checked the Mazda, rubbed at the front, and walked into the Chinese Restaurant which we were standing in front of.

Had a look, and the tow bar had speared the Mazda quite hard...was about to write a note to the Mazda owner, when a kid came down to load some stuff into the Mazda. Better half recognised him as one of her friend's sons, and he ran into a shop to grab his Mum...her new Mazda, a couple of days old.

She called the Police, who interviewed the geezer in the restaurant...he tried every excuse, knew the car and it was already damaged, she hit him, the black paint on his towbar was from work he was doing at home etc.

Police finally offered him witness testimony, and that if he didn't give details, he'd be arrested.

What is it with people and other people's stuff ?

 

[Colt45ws]

They figure they can get away with it, so they just shrug their shoulders and pretend it didn't happen.. I find the type of people that do this typically don't care about their vehicle either. That does not mean they drive a rattle trap necessarily; Its probably just as common with new cars.
What I find funny is he speared the Mazda and just left his car there? Really?
I feel you on the door swipe. I have a nice white mark on my front bumper and a green one on my back bumper from parking lots. My color is blue so the green some what blends in but you can see the 'shattered' paint where it pushed in and popped back out.

 

[Silk]

They don't even care about their own cars - I once punched my Pajero into the drivers door of a near new Falcon.I was in a left turn only,when I got a gap I floored the Pajero only to slam into the Falcon - he had mounted the curb and was on the footpath to get on my inside.He just shrugged his shoulders and drove off.

I blame insurance - he just takes it to the panel shop,pays his excess and gets a loaner while his car gets put back as new. There are no consequences for his actions,he is hardly inconvenienced,and the excess is just beer money.

 

[sciphi]

They figure the consequences won't catch up with them.

 

[d00df00d]

I don't think there's any "figuring" or "thinking" involved. I think the act just triggers their self-preservation instincts; they are afraid of the consequences, so their biggest instinct is to try to avoid harm.

In other words, it's not about hurting people and getting away with it; it's about saving one's own skin.

 

[The_Eric]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
I don't think there's any "figuring" or "thinking" involved. I think the act just triggers their self-preservation instincts; they are afraid of the consequences, so their biggest instinct is to try to avoid harm.

In other words, it's not about hurting people and getting away with it; it's about saving one's own skin.



I tend to agree with this, but I also think that there are some out there who are so unaware of what's going on, that they're practically unconscious.

 

[beanoil]

The world is full of liars. I think the majority of people have misplaced the basic concept of right and wrong.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Quote:
I don't think there's any "figuring" or "thinking" involved. I think the act just triggers their self-preservation instincts; they are afraid of the consequences, so their biggest instinct is to try to avoid harm.

In other words, it's not about hurting people and getting away with it; it's about saving one's own skin.


But there are others I have seen who don't do this accidentally, they do it deliberately. I have watched people quite deliberately go backward and forward in a parallel space, hitting (not nudging) the cars in front and back. It is all I can do not to intervene in the situation.

Quote:

I tend to agree with this, but I also think that there are some out there who are so unaware of what's going on, that they're practically unconscious.


Psychologically that is true. There are people who are completely disconnected from the world around them. Look at this page on Enneagram Type 9 at the bottom, Unhealthy Levels.

 

[mechtech2]

Me first! Driving, parking, whatever.
We have allowed very low standards to mutate in this country.

 

[opus1]

Originally Posted By: mechtech2
Me first! Driving, parking, whatever.
We have allowed very low standards to mutate in this country.
This. Coupled with "oh, insurance will cover it".

I was sitting in my Dakota in the parking lot at the train station and the woman in the car next to me opened her driver-side door into my truck so hard that the truck shook. She just got in like nothing happened and I got out to walk around and see. By that time she was halfway out of the spot and I said "so, you're not even going to PRETEND like it was an accident?". Her response was "oh, nothing happened." My reply: "since you didn't even bother to check, how do you know that?" And off she went.

She did leave a decent-sized ding in the door. But I noticed she never parked near me again....

 

[TooManyWheels]

When our TL was brand new, I was sitting in the parking lot of a church in an upscale part of Austin, TX, while my wife attended Easter service inside. As other people arrived, a woman with an oversize purse on her side shoved her way between my car and the one adjacent, not bothering to twist sideways to fit through the gap.

I later found a two-foot long, extremely noticeable gash in the clearcoat in that area. Several hundred dollars of paint repair because of boorish behavior - Thanks!

On Easter Sunday, no less!

 

[eljefino]

Had a woman with cell phone in her ear pull in next to me (on my passenger side) in a parking lot. Opened door, gust of wind came from 6 o'clock, door slams into my car side.

Naturally having the phone in her ear kept her from being in control of her car. I bet if it stalled in a curve she wouldn't be able to wrestle the suddenly non powered steering!

I laid on the horn. At least it interfered with her conversation. Got a shrug.

 

[hattaresguy]

This is why I park in the nosebleed section of the lot, or next to other people with the same idea.

In any parking lot you usually get a group of nice cars near the outskirts. Safety in numbers?

 

[opus1]

Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
This is why I park in the nosebleed section of the lot, or next to other people with the same idea.

In any parking lot you usually get a group of nice cars near the outskirts. Safety in numbers?
Ah, so you're one of those people!

I tend to park in the boonies too, and more often than not, I park by myself and come out to find cars parked in a cluster all around me and wonder why in an almost empty lot, everyone parks next to me? Safety in Numbers makes sense.

 

[dwendt44]

Originally Posted By: opus1
Originally Posted By: hattaresguy
This is why I park in the nosebleed section of the lot, or next to other people with the same idea.

In any parking lot you usually get a group of nice cars near the outskirts. Safety in numbers?
Ah, so you're one of those people!

I tend to park in the boonies too, and more often than not, I park by myself and come out to find cars parked in a cluster all around me and wonder why in an almost empty lot, everyone parks next to me? Safety in Numbers makes sense.

That's a change from most people. I've seen a few drive around and around and around waiting for some one who parked close to the entrance leave so they don't have to walk very far.
I used to get P.O.'d at the number of 'handicapped' spots at Wal-mart. Half of them were empty, and the rest of the lot was packed.

Now that I have a 'handicap' hang tag, the handicap spots are usually full too.
Figures.

 

[RamFan]

Drove off the lot with my Charger at about 9 pm. Got into the car to drive to the DMV at about 10 am. I had a lovely dent and scratch on the passenger fender and some very deep and jagged scratches down where my hood meets the bumper, about 8 all in a row.

Go figure, a nice vehicle isn't safe on a campus parking lot. It'll be $480 to repair, [censored].holes.

 

[Shannow]

Quote on the Mazda is $600 of repairs and plastic, so I'm glad I dobbed the bloke in...

 

[wander2039]

This is why I drive older cars.. plus with the 2 small ones they really have to try to put door dings in them. The Escape has plastic cladding which helps.

 

[rick9009]

It's not just with door dings that these type of people try and shrug off their responsibility. I was t-boned last summer and the guy checked his truck and said well that sucks and jumped back in his truck to leave, as if noting happened.

 

[Nick R]

Had this happened when we lived in hawaii. We were at a store there, and when we got out the truck had a massive gouge running underneath the back passenger window, half the length of the window. Mom was ticked, and never did find out who did it.