To the person who dented my car door in the Pittsford Plaza parking lot this evening:
Thank you. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the fact that you dented my new car. Yes, I know it’s a year old, but it’s still my new car. In fact, it’s the very first new car I’d ever owned, and it was – until tonight – in absolutely perfect condition. And the whole not leaving a note thing, yeah, that was an extra-special touch.
The really funny thing is, I can only think of one way you could possibly have used your driver’s side door to dent my passenger door the way that you did. You must have opened it with such force that my side mirror snapped forward. Since it was in it’s normal location when I got back to my car, you obviously very kindly pushed it back into place. I do appreciate that. If I hadn’t noticed the dent and the mirror had been out of place I might have gotten to the expressway and not been able to use my mirror to change lanes.
Now, some would say that it’s only a little dent and I shouldn’t care so much – and they’re probably right. In the grand scheme of things it’s not something to lose sleep over. I’m certainly not going to contact my insurance company over it. And, honestly, if you had bothered to leave a note apologizing for your actions I probably wouldn’t have bothered to contact your insurance company either.
But since you didn’t leave a note, and I can’t thank you in person, I’m writing you this public thank you note just so you know how special you made my evening. I hope your evening was just as special.
Thank you again.
Sarah
WAAAAH!!!!
I don’t care how old your car may be, getting a dent (and especially the only dent) is just the worst!!! I backed the Civic into a post way back when and scraped the bumper all up! I must’ve felt sick for weeks! And no, I didn’t try to fix it – the guys at the dealership said I’d have to replace the whole thing! But it was still awful…. :-(
Now however, with it’s bumper mostly crumpled in and the hatchback bottom totally un-openable, I just merrily park where ever I want, no longer feeling the pangs of guilt for not parking it in left field. Like they told me after that accident: “It makes a good winter car,” though little did they know how true that became when the AC stopped working in the hottest summer in recent history. Sigh…. the life of a 12 year old car!
If I were you, I’d look into getting it repaired – if it’s not too bad, maybe they can use that dent-sucking machine and just buff the rest out. Good luck! :-)
Speaking of that dent sucking machine… I once drove my former Bronco II into a snowbank (after spinning out on Scottsville Road and narrowly missing a telephone pole and oncoming traffic) and gave it a good dent in the passenger side door.
I used my bathroom plunger and popped it out – you couldn’t even tell it had been in an accident afterwards.
So the pluger-removing-dent thing really does work (though maybe you’d need a little plunger on a smaller dent).
It still sucks, though. My condolences.