Ha Ha Ha Grrrrrrrr

Finally sold the tow a ho which enabled me to finally take delivery of the way clean 86 F250. (300 six with 4 speed manual)On the to the first fill up it develops a new very unhappy squeeking/grinding sound. OKFINE. So I park it and continue with work. Suddenly there is a commotion which turns out to be a guy in a painters van hitting the formerly pristine eff with enough force to knock the spare tire out of its mount and on to the ground. Really? He managed to achieve this while reversing in a parking lot. Total miles driven = 5.

Are you KIDDING ME???

How do "professional drivers" get by being this dumb?

ebonyandivory wrote: Are you KIDDING ME??? How do "professional drivers" get by being this dumb?

Good question and I don't know. This a little different but we recently had some work done at the office. We started getting calls from customers that they couldn't get in the parking lot because a truck was in the way. I went outside and the workers had parked their truck sideways across the only opening into the parking lot because it was easier to access their equipment that way. OK I understand that part but this was going to be an all day job and we make our money by people coming in to the office to do business. I went and asked them to move their truck and they copped an attitude with me. I actually had to explain to them why they can't leave it there like that all day. Really? Really stupid.

I bought a perfect black, one owner, 35,000 original mile '77 Monte Carlo and on the way home getting gas an old lady backed into the front of it. No damage to the Monte but it destroyed her plastic bumper cover. Total miles driven about 35.

My favorite from back in high school: A friend of mine who had just got her license and a car (fortunately not new) for her 16th birthday. About a half mile from the Secretary of State, she stopped for a burger. Pulling out of the drive through she somehow (I've still never heard a satisfactory explanation) turned onto the road, kept turning off the road, into a ditch, shaved most of the passenger side bodywork off on a telephone pole anchor wire and then drove over a drain culvert, gutting the undercarriage. Car totaled. Total miles on car AND driver's license: .5

But at least that was her own fault.

After spending 4 years restoring a TR6 to show quality, I took it for it's first drive. Two miles in waiting at an intersection some idiot on the crossing road decided to pass (at 50+ MPH) another driver on the right cutting within 10 feet of me. He was effectively on the shoulder. All of the accumulated road debris showered my front end. Luckily, I only had a few paint chips. Accidents I can understand, but this was pure stupidity.

ebonyandivory wrote: Are you KIDDING ME??? How do "professional drivers" get by being this dumb?

The guy would appear to be a professional painter and a crappy driver

that's what you get for buying a ford.

my pristine low mile barn find 78 caddy deville was mint. then i had a tire pop on the highway and wipe out the perfect passenger side fender a couple weeks into owning it. lesson learned, don't drive on barn find tires.

dude that really sucks, please tell me he had insurance