Got my poor, bashed Prius out of the body shop last Friday. I must say, Pope’s Auto Body of Fairfax, VA, did a genius job on it. When I picked it up it looked and drove like a new car.
I picked it up about 5:30 PM on Friday, drove it straight to my house, and parked it on the street at the curbline in front of my house (in a quiet suburban neighborhood). Didn’t move it overnight at all.
Saturday morning I got up and drove to a supermarket two miles from home. An uneventful trip.
When I got out of the car at the Giant supermarket at looked at the rear of my car, the left side of the rear bumper had been scraped by an inattentive or drunken driver overnight. In front of my own house. By friends/guests of my neighbors who always park right in front of our house, even though there is plenty of curbline in front of their own home.
So my spanking like-new Prius did not spend even 12 hours in that pristine condition.
Well, it’s not a new car anymore. In any event, it drives like a dream. And I will no longer be deferential or courteous to my neighbors’ guests when they park in front of my house.
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Don’t you hate those overnight dents?
I’m traveling for work (I will now be ALWAYS traveling for work) and Monday night we got two big dents on the back of the car I rented. Filling out the accident report was fun. Who was driving? Well, no one, I was SLEEPING. Who hit you? No idea, I was SLEEPING, they left.
My new company’s insurance company will work it out. . . .I hope.
Men, that stinks. I’ve been looking at getting a Prius for a while now, and will be street parking it most nights.
Maybe they got caught up checking out how cool it was until they actually ran right into it?