Still angry, must vent.
Heel & Toe
Joined: Mar 2008
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I've got to tell you...I have went back and read this three times now.
I think I am completely dumbfounded!
First off. What the hell difference does it matter how you were able to afford your car?
Then to try to lecture you on how to raise your future children!
I have to commend you on your level of maturity.
I would have lost it on them. My wife and I have raised four wonderful children who, after the age of three would never have touched anyone's property without their permission. My parents would have paddled my behind for such disrespect and we raised them the same way.
I seriously am glad that situation never haappened to me. The moment the two of them started laughing and then lecturing you, I would have crawled up and down the both of them.
I commend you on your restraint. You are a better man than me.
I think I am completely dumbfounded!
First off. What the hell difference does it matter how you were able to afford your car?
Then to try to lecture you on how to raise your future children!
I have to commend you on your level of maturity.
I would have lost it on them. My wife and I have raised four wonderful children who, after the age of three would never have touched anyone's property without their permission. My parents would have paddled my behind for such disrespect and we raised them the same way.
I seriously am glad that situation never haappened to me. The moment the two of them started laughing and then lecturing you, I would have crawled up and down the both of them.
I commend you on your restraint. You are a better man than me.
Safety Car
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 4,487
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From: Naples Florida
I run into this all the time at shows. Most parents will have respect for your car but some will let their kids run amuck. I had one kid run his hot wheels car over the nose of my car. Another teenager sat on my rear spoiler. When I told her to get her butt off my car she said "my Uncle lets me sit on his" I told her to go sit on her Uncle's car then. It's the parents-not the kids that get me angry.
Melting Slicks
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From: bolckow missouri
i'll tell you one better than that , we went to my wifes work cookout , i parked on the end of a row far enough away from the car on the passenger side that they or we could open doors with no problem , then this mini-van pulls in and parks next to me where there is no parking spot 
the kids start to get out and my wife stops them so i can move the vette they parked that close , i move the vette abd when i come back around i hear her tell my wife that she did not blame me for moving , that her dad would have been pissed if someone with kids parked that close to his vette 
yet here she was doing exactly that to me , why some people do what they do , who knows
oak
the kids start to get out and my wife stops them so i can move the vette they parked that close , i move the vette abd when i come back around i hear her tell my wife that she did not blame me for moving , that her dad would have been pissed if someone with kids parked that close to his vette yet here she was doing exactly that to me , why some people do what they do , who knows oak
Race Director
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 15,960
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From: West Norriton PA
St. Jude Donor '08
Because people have to work hard to pay for these cars and their modifications to have someone not care and wreck someone else's property is just wrong.
How about a bunch of people wreck something that you prize or care about.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Inland NW
Unless you left out the part of the story where you started dropping F-bombs and cursing them up and down, you're a better man than I. I would have lost my mind. Your story made me mad just reading it.
KEEP YOUR DAMN KIDS OFF MY STUFF!!! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH
You're not alone brother. If my wife was here with me she'd agree too.
-Steve
KEEP YOUR DAMN KIDS OFF MY STUFF!!! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH
You're not alone brother. If my wife was here with me she'd agree too.
-Steve
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Pro
Joined: Dec 2002
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From: near Newburypot MA
YES - jumped on the their hood and screamed at the parents " I was nice and now you want trouble - take your 2 bit car - your 2 bit wife - and your 2 bit kids and get the f away from me ...." and in a very threating manner.
and now you know why I've be in court in the past ...
sorry for the rant
I do not reccomend this response for others to follow.
You may now resume to our regularly scheduled peaceful forum ...
Banned Scam/Spammer
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 4,285
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From: Fort St John B.C
Unless you left out the part of the story where you started dropping F-bombs and cursing them up and down, you're a better man than I. I would have lost my mind. Your story made me mad just reading it.
KEEP YOUR DAMN KIDS OFF MY STUFF!!! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH
You're not alone brother. If my wife was here with me she'd agree too.
-Steve
KEEP YOUR DAMN KIDS OFF MY STUFF!!! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH
You're not alone brother. If my wife was here with me she'd agree too.
-Steve
Id'a snapped.
You need a license to drive a car, heck you even need a license to catch a fish. It is too bad that you don't need a license to be a parent, alot of people wouldn't qualify.
Pro
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 749
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From: West Yarmouth MA.
ajg 1915 fails to see that i was joking. You see I own a Vette too and I care about it just like you. Some people, like the parents of those kids just think it's a car like their pos minivan. Lighten up.
Race Director
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From: Reno is so close to Hell you can see Sparks , State Of Confusion
St. Jude Donor '12-'13-'14
Drifting
Joined: Mar 2001
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Well it sounds right to me. I have had to tell adults to keep their hands off my car. Most people today just don't care what their little darlings do. They just want to keep them out of their hair. So what if they ruined your paint job? Hell it was worth the 2 seconds peace they got by letting their spoiled brats tear up someones elses property.
You did right. Hey I do it all the time. They really don't want to hear you are calling the police to make a report to file an insurance claim because they destroyed your $10k paint job.
Turbo5
You did right. Hey I do it all the time. They really don't want to hear you are calling the police to make a report to file an insurance claim because they destroyed your $10k paint job.
Turbo5
Instructor
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 181
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From: Hickory NC
It never ceases to amaze me that some people feel like they have the right to force you to deal with their kids. (I am also a parent). Everytime I take my wife out for dinner, or fly somewhere I always seem to get a seat next to the crying baby. Last week my wife and I attended a movie and two rows down there was a woman with a 2-week old baby!
Drifting
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From: Carson City, NV
Drifting
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From: Michigan
Le Mans Master
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From: Kelso Washington
St. Jude Donor '09, '13, '15
Ya know what? I don't think anything you could have possibly said would have gotten through to asshat "parents" and "people" that you have described here. Their reaction must have made your blood boil!! Just thinking about them laughing at you makes mine boil.
But idiots such as them are just not teachable.
If I could have gotten over my dumbfoundedness at their behavior and thought quickly enough, perhaps I would have told them to go enjoy their meal while I call the police to file a report so that my insurance company can look up their license number in case there is any damage to my car.
Let 'em laugh while you are on the phone.
Oh, and in case it matters.....I have two boys and was a single parent for seven years.....
But idiots such as them are just not teachable.
If I could have gotten over my dumbfoundedness at their behavior and thought quickly enough, perhaps I would have told them to go enjoy their meal while I call the police to file a report so that my insurance company can look up their license number in case there is any damage to my car.
Let 'em laugh while you are on the phone.
Oh, and in case it matters.....I have two boys and was a single parent for seven years.....
Last edited by Oh 2 Fun; Apr 12, 2008 at 04:58 AM.
Heel & Toe
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 19
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From: Derbyshire England
Last night I was at a popular restauraunt where I live and the lot is Valet only (I know the valet so I trust him with my car). I have a great meal and come out and give the valet my ticket. There was a line of people waiting to leave so it is going to take a minute. I am about 4th in line. So while I am waiting I notice two 4 year old girls running around and playing tag around my car and sitting on the hood. That is not acceptable to me at all. So I approach the parents (by the way I am 24, so relitively young) and ask very if they could please make sure that thier kids don't touch my car anymore and that I would apreeciate it. They both look at me for a moment and then burst out laughing in my face! Then the get silent and ask me "oh are you actually being serious?" I replied, yes of course I was being serious! Then then ask me how a spoiled rich boy can afford a car like that and if that is even my car. (I pay for it myself, no help since I was 18) Then they say I will remember this moment when I am an adult and have children and I will feel like an azz****. They said I was completly out of line to tell them what to do with thier kids. Then there mini van pulls up and they leave. I am still angry about it so I just had to get it out.
AS many others on here have said, I commend you on your restraint as I'd have been banged up for my actions in this situation.
Not being a parent, I can only imagine what is involved in raising offspring, but it surely isn't a decision that is taken lightly. If you decide to have kids, surely you would accept the responsibility involved in their upbringing. These folks clearly have not!!
To think that these kind of kids are our future makes me shudder!!!
Neil L