Am I paranoid or what? I get my new 07 vert vett this last Wed. I am a little paranoid of where to park and how it's touched ect. I take it out tonight and meet my brother at the lake who took out a bachelorette party on the lake. I have my car parked at the landing when one of the girls from the party says "I love your car, can I sit in it" I tell her "no, you are all wet from swimming" She says she is going to sit in it anyway and tell her, "please don't, I will stop by your house this week and show you" Next thing I know, I look over and she is sitting, teetering and hanging on the window sill of the car (windows down on the vert) trying to wedge herself in. I am try to be nice and talk her away from it. Everyone looks at me like I am being overly protective and weird about my car. Is it just me, or would this bother others here too? I can't figure this out. I feel like I can't take it anywhere without worry about people doing stuff like this. I wouldn't do this to anyone's car no matter what kind of car or what it cost. My wife wants to bring it to a wedding reception this next weekend, but I am worried about little kids running around it and trying to climb on/in it. What do you all think?

 

I would have told her to get the heck off and then left. She had total disrespect for you and your car IMHO.

 

if shes hot who give s SH*T let her wet *** in your car, take her for a ride. No to the little kids running around it. You have to slap yourself when you get like that, you'll take her next week?? take her now! gotta enjoy it or why have it.

 

I don't even like when poeple touch the car, it leaves marks and finger prints on the paint and I usually wipe the marks off as soon as they get their hands off the car.

Same thing when opening the car or the hatch, I tell poeple not to touch the paint. It drives my wife nuts.

I still use it daily and I don't think I'm paranoid about it since I don't think about it when it's parked outside the office.
When I parked in a parking lot, I try to park where there is no other car and I usually try to be quick so it doesn't stay too long on the parking lot.

 

Dont be nice. Nice will get your car effed up in these situations.

Especially girlies that are used to being all cute and get there way.
Well, Im way passed that BS now. Let some other chump be the sucker and get their paint scratched and ruined by careless people. Its easy and fun to be careless with other people property, because it wont cost them anything.

Most of these people dont care about your car, they arent going to ask nice and be understanding of caring for a car we all worked so hard to have.

Lay down the law now while you still can.

No good deed goes unpunished. I let people sit in my car... I let CAR people and my close friends and work assosicates who *know* me and understand they will lose a limb if they screw something up. Because I respect their stuff the same way.

If they know you, are your friends and famiiy, love you, they will *respect* your wishes because they know its important to you.

 

Hot or not, if you don't want her in the car, she's out. If she can't hear that, try a little spanking

 

You are totally justified in your reaction. I did the same thing; be prepared for the chevy dealership to do things ten times worse and take the same opinion on your "it's just a car" corvette!

Since the chevy dealership is selling "just a car's" all day that's the typical attitude, but watch them f***ing freak when someone says they might take the corvette name to select chevy dealerships!

Any hootie, she should have respected your request not to sit in it. I think you said you are married as well - so what's the point in the chick with her swim suit on sitting in the car! You only live once so enjoy what you can of it.

As for the wedding, if you are close to the bride/groom ask if you can have a private parking spot - otherwise take the minivan!

My favorite thing to do is take my 2500/avy and park in the crappiest car I can find - gotta love plastic side skirting!

JK

 

No kidding. Get off the car or I will pick your wet *** up and carry you away from it. Yoru sitting on 50,000 dollars of MY hard earned cash babe.

 

Ya I agree I HATE it when other people sit in it like when i KNOW their shoes are dirty. I WILL NOT let ANYONE sit in it wet unless i put a towell in the seat which i have done. lol. but really its not worth it to let someone do something that would jepordize it. i wish all people would respect these cars like us owners do.

 

Yes, I am married and the girl who wanted to sit in it is the friend of mines fiance who he is marrying. I tried to handle it tactfully, but I feel like I came away as the "bad/rude" guy to everyone there. Wife wants to bring it to the wedding to show off the new car. I just think it is a bad idea because of drunk people and kids there. It sucks, you want to show it off, but can't relax when its out of the garage and you can't see it.

 

Then be the bad guy I say. Wear the black hat. Rude is not respecting someone elses property. Rude and assertive are two entirely different things.

Drunks are the worst. Oh huh huh huh sorry dude! huh huh, Forgotten two minutes later after they scratch the paint. Show it before the wedding if you must. Take something else to the reception. You didnt buy it to impress drunks and children.

And the way some people are raising their kids these days?

oh man. You think some of these "parents" will take responsiblity for good little johnnies actions? OH he didnt do it, he's an angel.

Its not paranoia. Its being pro-active and removing your vehicle from situations that will endanger it. We all gotta drive, we all gotta go places, but we can reduce the risk without giving ourselves a headache at the same time. Common sense. And your spider-sense is tingling for a reason about these things. Listen to it.

 

yeah she chose the wrong place to be sitting :]

 

I would be honest about it and say,"Look, I paid $50 thousand for that car, so don't mess around with it."
Now, if you hang out with Don Trump and Billy Gates, they will laff at you. But otherwise, any reasonable person would understand where you are coming from.

 

 

It also quickly stops being "just a car" when your looking for a test drive.

DRJZ1974, It's your property and if someone thinks your being overprotective of it, well that's not for them to decide. It's YOUR car and YOU are the one that should decide what is acceptable treatment of it.

 

I think I would have physically removed her from the vicinity of my car. And I don't even have a Corvette yet.

 

I try not to take my care to places where I would encounter that so I dont have to toss someone in the dirt for messing with my toy. Get your own and do what you want with it. My better half does not even do that crap. Ya its just a car, a $60K car that most of us waited a long time to own.

 

The good thing--Owning a car that people admire and want to share in your joy without being jealous--The bad thing-- Freakin' out when kids or
"non car" people get within arms length of it!!

 

I would have hit the alarm button on the fob and scared the sh*tz out of her and then told her to get the frack out of my car.

 

A WET bathing suit on my black leather seats? Oh no that would only happen once. I have a new vette and her aZZ would have been physically removed after asking ONCE to get the hell out! I don't leave my car open or unlocked just for that reason... I know it's a pain but I really want to keep it nice and it's MY 50 grand. I was getting gas one day and there was a mom with 3 kids filling the SUV! She said what a great looking car and before I knew it the THREE RUGS RATS with CHOCOLATE on their hands (I kid you not) are trying to open the passenger side door. I hit the freaken ceiling and turned to the women and said… PLEASE ask your kids not to mess with the car! Of course by now they had chocolate all over the door (I hope it was chocolate)!! I was extremely pizzed off and let them know it. She apologized profusely and offered to get a wet paper towel.. oh yea.. just what I need to scratch it more. I thanked her and said no thanks I’ll take care of the mess myself. What the hell do parents teach kids today? These kids were clearly old enough to know better IMO! They were actually trying to open the freaken door and climb in. WTF is going on here? I tell people please don’t touch the car because it just scratches very easy. If they don’t like it they can kiss my AZZ! I simply don’t care what they think. BTW.. I would have been happy to properly show the kids the car and even let them sit in it but on my terms not theirs!