Allright, I'm at the local menards buying some useless crap for my friends project... When I parked, I noticed the truck next to my Escort was over the line... Whatever, it's a little car. I move far over, so I'm evenly spaced between the two... A white car, and a newer burgendy F150, with some graphics down the side... Kinda cool, W/E, go inside...

I come out, and I'm walking to my car with my friend. I hear a THWACK......

Whatever, cheap car... I walk up to him as he's backing up, and say "did you just hit my car?" he said NO! I say stay there... He's getting ansy and then says "its OLD anyways, thats not my paint on it" I look at my mirror, there's a big burgendy streak on it. I say what the hell guy, cant u park that thing? He yells some **** about my dumbass joining a poinless war, pointing at my army sticker in the rear glass...

I lean on his truck, behind the drivers side door, just at the frount of the bed... I say I'm calling the cops, dont leave... I had my keys out cause I WAS just gonna let this slide, but he had to be a moron.. Lies to me, denys it, and then says I'm a dumbass joining a poinless war... My friend snaps a cell shot of his plate, and he FLIPS OUT... I was leaning on his truck, and he throws it in drive...

Well since I had my keys out in my hand, I say DONT MOVE THE TRUCK... well he did... Since he was taking off so rapildly, I almost lost my balance... Thankfully my hand with my keys in it supported most of my weight as he was taking off... I cought my balance just I feel the lip of the tail light pass under my key.

I saw bare metal on the truck, and graphic flakes on my key....

Im I a bad person?

If he woulda appoligized, I bet I woulda said "yeah well it's old"
he lied to me, he insulted myself as an Army Recruit, and has a nice little reminder of it...

If ur the toothless wonder who door dinged my escort in the parking lot, PM me, I'll give something to ***** about...

Wonder how much it costs to get graphics put on, after fixing the marks that went down to metal.

I wanted him to hit me... Some of that useless crap I bought was a 24" bold cutters...

A fool and his money will soon be parted... I bet that truck was worth 10k or better
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~Nate

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Douche, too bad the mark wasnt bigger, I've never been actually approached about things, they dont have anything to say when not in the car. I do similar things, like notice a ding, and give them something back. Maybe Americans need more vacation time already??????

Interesting, didn't the F150 guy technically flee the scene of an accident without exchanging information for the damage to the car?

Did your friend get a shot of the damage to the F150 when it hit the Escort? You can match that up with the damage on your car when it comes down to proving it wasn't some "random" car.

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No,just his plate... I wanted the cops there, because I wasnt sure if the mirror would still work, or if there was any hidden damage or anything...
His door was ALL chipped to hell on the lip...

Hindsight being 20-20 i was wearing steel toe boots, coulda jammed it under the tire to prevent him from moving... Be a real shame to assault a minor with a deadly wepon over a door ding...

It looked like nice factory package too, line under the clearcoat and stuff...

Such a shame
~Nate

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People have no respect for other's property.

Even assuming, arguendo, that the Escort is a piece of crap. Well, it is YOUR POS and to you it has intrinsic, and maybe even extrinsic, value.

It is not up to the truck driver, or anyone else, to make assumptions about the value of your car and to then whack it, leaving a ding.

BTW, you did not scratch his truck. He hit your key with his truck. That's big distinction.

Just one word of advice from an oldtimer (same thing that I would tell my kids). Avoid confrontations over "little" things. You have a lot of life ahead of you, and lots of things to accomplish. It would be a shame to see that potential get derailed over a confrontation with an a@@hole loser like that p/u truck driver.

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Not in this weather!

It’s pretty obvious that neither party has much respect for the others property.

I doubt that the jerk in the truck thought: “Oh, it’s just a POS Escort. I think I’ll hit it.”
I’d doubt he’d risk damage to his own vehicle regardless of what he thought of Nates.

Your word of advice is right on. This could have quickly escalated into one of those stories with a rather bad ending. Certainly not worth the risk over a smudge on your mirror. Or even a broken mirror for that matter.

Nate -
What if the guy looked in his mirror and noticed you just scratched his nice truck. He could have easily stopped and leveled your a** with the axe handle he keeps under the seat. You suffer life long paralysis over a flip’n mirror incident. Or - what if he then changed his mind and decided to get the cops involved as you requested. In the end - He’d probably be paying to buff off your mirror, while you pay for new paint and graphics. Who won that one? And that’s only if the police don’t decide to call what you did something like revengeful vandalism.

Sure - It felt great for you to get your revenge on this jerk with your keys. At the time anyway. Perhaps still. But the bottom line is - You lowered yourself to this jerks level, and risked much more than you were apparently thinking about at the time. Over a scuffed mirror, and the jerk trying to blow it off and leave.

You had the guys plate. You had a witness. You had the scuff mark/paint. If you want to make something of the incident, fine. Go with what you have. Why do you think he got cranky when your friend took the picture?

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Damn right. Nate, you need to chill--if you would have pulled something like that on my 74 year-old father, you would be dead.

I represented a guy a few years back in an (unrelated to this story) injury matter. He had four false teeth across the front. He was a burly redneck grill cook from northern Florida and I ask him about the teeth. He had been driving his big chevvy truck behind an old geezer who was wearing overalls and a straw hat. The old guy cut him off, and wasn't using his signal. Redneck tailgates the old guy and blasts his horn, gives him the finger, ect.....They approach a four way redlight and the old man gets out of the truck. Redneck gets out and says, "WTF" about the same time as the old guy hit him in the face with a lead pipe he retrieved from the back of his truck. 'Course my guy found this out from a witness who called the ambulance that picked up his unconscious ass off the pavement at the intersection.

Don't **** with old people. (at least if you come to the South)

As irritating as that is, it's not worth losing sleep over. Door dings are a pet peeve of mine, but we live in a society where children are not taught good manners much anymore. Neither are they taught to respect other peoples' belongings. Door dings are like "death by a thousand cuts" for your car. It's disheartening to see when you care for your car as meticulously as most of us here do.

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Yeah thats it, just find a lockable door and call the cops, assume fetal position and wait for the nanny.

I used to have a little device that sat on my dashboard. You could push buttons on it and it would make sounds like machine gun fire, rockets launching, explosions, etc. It was fun to use when people in other cars did irritating things to me. I wish I knew what happened to that thing. I miss it.

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I don't agree with this (yes I know its tongue in cheek), but a 17 year old going ballistic over a crime he didn't even technically witness against a stranger is stupid. And I think he made up the part about the army sticker comment for effect.

I like Nate--he seems to like chicks and has a firebrand non-nerd attitude. I just wouldn't want to see him get killed or his ass kicked for such a small thing. You never know who you are messing around with.

Well, hes going into the Army, its probably a good idea to be a bit of a hardass is all.

He should watch Kentucky Fried Movie and run down an alley in Oakland and yell ****** ******* *******!!!!! if he wants to get tough

No the big son of a ***** said "I see your one of thoose dumbasses who joined up for that pointless war"
You will not call me a lier. If it intereasts you, he was white.

If you wanna go there, I met a cool black guy at MEPS. Wasnt into drugs, talked normally... Clean cut and everything. Pretty cool guy.

So if your still fishing to keep calling me a racist, well you loose again...


He wasnt that old... He was balding, fat, toothless, and is incapabil of parking a truck between the two lines.

I was LEANING ON THE DAMN TRUCK TALKING TO HIM. I had no intention of marking it anyways, it's just that after my friend snapped a picture of the plates, he gunned it and I did get tossed offbalance...

I had a 24" bolt cutters that I had just bought handy, but I really didnt wanna go there anyways.

~Nate

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Best door ding story I've got:

I drive a 4x4 SUV that actually spends a fair amount of time off road, and is equipped to do so. Part of this equipment are things called "sliders", they are basically steel bars running wheel well to wheel well, protecting my rocker panels from rocks, and allowing me to slide over, or pivot around things such as rocks. They'll also support the weight of my vehicle for jacking and unsticking. My particular set has both an inner and outer steel bar, with the outer bar also serving as a step to access the roofrack. As it so happens, that outer steel bar is the outermost point on the body, at least until you get to the mirrors, all told it sticks out about 1/2 inch.

So, here goes...

A group of friends and I pull into a parking lot, I think it was outside a resturaunt. I park my vehicle perfectly between the lines of the parking space I have chosen. The vehicle next to me is a lowered Honda, all "pimped" out. He's parked crooked, well over the line into my space, but we had room to exit, and did so. I walked over to my friends vehicle, where we waited for some others and generally chatted. My friend mentioned that the guy in the Honda was probably going to be pissed about my parking in the space I did, even though I was entirely in the space, his own asshattery was going to make it hard for him to get into his car. My friend also warned me about the possibility of door dings. I said little.

After about 5 minutes, the Honda owner comes out, and goes to get into his car. Sure enough, he was pissed. Partially with me, but also with his girlfriend who pointed out that it was him who was over the line and crooked. He crawls in through the passenger side, which wouldn't have been necessary had he followed the old adage about keeping ones waist size equal to if not smaller the ones inseam, but thats what he does. My friend is very worried now, sure that this guy is going to do something, after all, he doesn't know that I'm watching. Sure enough, the guy decides to impose an intentional door ding, and opens his drivers door as hard as he can into the side of my vehicle. Right into the slider. Puts a really nice crease in the side of his door. Does nothing to my slider. I watch, and decide to say nothing, he's had enough. I'll let it go. He pulls out of the space and drives away. We went inside. It was good. Glad I got to see it. It warms my heart just writing about it.

Anyway, that's my best.

MV