Since Dave traded in our convertible for a pick-up recently, it’s been a tight fit getting a truck and big SUV into our slightly oversized 2-stall garage. Then I discovered a little button between the SUV’s front seats and, voila, the mirrors automatically flip in when you press it–giving me more room to edge the vehicle all the way to the right as I pull it in. Too far to the right, apparently. I thought I felt the car rubbing something when I parked it inside the garage Tuesday night. Yeah… try the right side of the door opening! Only when I came out of the preschool after dropping Thomas off yesterday morning did I see the line of scraped-off paint on the right front bumper. Kind of hard to miss when the car is black. Oops! Of course I did what any blonde would do. I licked my finger and tried to rub off the scuff marks. Nothing. So I called the nice guy who sold us both our cars, had to stop by the dealership anyway to sign the title, and he offered to take a look at it. Thankfully, amazingly, five minutes later in the bodyshop and there is virtually no evidence the whole incident ever happened. I told him I’m an honest person so I would tell my husband no matter what. But it’s nice to share the details when the happy ending has already arrived. The repair happened so quickly I regretted not taking a quick pic to show you my handiwork.
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 55
This post was written by Tara on January 24, 2013
Tara, sometimes you scare me! We r SO alike. I traded in my convertible just a month ago for another Impala. The 13 r nice, as was the 2009,2006,2003,etc. I trade every 35,999 miles when the warrenty is about 2 expire. But I had the convertible in Prairie for the weekends we go up to r summer home. I had my sister with me & we were eating lunch & it was a camry & was gold with black seats. When she went to get in it after we ate she started screaming & writhing in pain. I thought she was having seizures & it was her legs burning from flesh hitting the black seats & I had the top down & it was HOT last summer. So, all things considered I traded it in. We laugh about smelling burned flesh now,but it was painful 4 her. ( oh gosh, I’m sick…I am STILL laughing) Then last wk I noticed a long scrape on the door of the black impala & looked around to c if anybody was looking ( i have NO idea why) & licked my finger & it was just a streak of dirt ( thank you god). I think back to the things I do & roll my eyes at myself. It so nice to know that I am normal now
I pulled a stunt like that once too only I took the short little wall that housed the door and pulled it out as well. I had backed out of the garage and I’m not sure how but the car was in there very crooked. I caught the bumper on the wall and pulled it out away from the house. I had a huge dent and scrape on the car and of course the damage to the wall to own up to. I had the scratches buffed out and the car repair guy popped the dent out almost 100% but I couldn’t fix the wall by myself so I had to do the next best thing. Blame him for parking the car in so cock-eyed. Needless to say we got through that without too many nights on the couch and there were other hurdles as well but honesty IS ALWAYS the best policy.
Dee, I did almost the same thing in our garage in the early years of my marriage. Thank goodness the bumper was only scratched, but the garage corner was damaged. My husband fixed it, but never let me forget my “poor driving skills”. But he was the one who had driven the car in and had the steering wheel cramped so strangely that when I backed out, it was no wonder something bad happened! We’ve been married 34 years, me a town girl trying to adjust to an active role on a farm, so believe me, I’ve done a lot worse than damage the garage!
My hubby is good at messing up the tailgate on his pickup. He “dinged” up two now because he forgot to close them, neither would shut afterwards, needless to say, we don’t have a tailgate on our truck. It’s so old that a new tailgate would cost more than the pickup is worth.
We just moved to a house where I can park my car in a garage, I’m so afraid I will forget to open the garage door and back out, my mom did that once when I was a kid. I never had a garage door prior to this, so glad I have sensors on my car that sound when I back up. My big thing is I get down the road and then can’t remember if I closed the garage door or not!
Electric folding mirrors are AWESOME too!
I did that once too when we had a truck and my husband noticed it the instant he came home! He notices the smallest scratches and dings on our cars. I just smile and say, “I don’t know how that happened honey!”
kindergarten can wait…. I have been in tears this past few weeks trying to decide if i should send my son who will turn 5 in June… I even asked the waterloo schools if they would allow those children with summer birthdays could be in the preschool program instead of kindergarten. The reply was that the state doesn’t see the need for funding such a program as extended preschool. I wish the federal goverment would see the advancements that education is taking and advance with it! Our children are expected to read at 5 yrs old and when I was in kindergarten I was expected to color in the lines!
And choosing a preschool is hard when there is only a handful of good programs that won’t chew up your life savings!
I wish there was an easier answer.. my son might be ready for kindergarten in that he is starting to read and knows several sight words, but is small and shy! were do I go?