Mrs. 914 is pissed.

While getting gas in the Jetta, someone slipped in quietly and put a 5" diameter steel pole right where she was going to turn.  When she came in the house with the boo boo face I thought someone died or the dog got kidnaped.  She's mad because I didn't yell.

It's sheet metal.  "Well I feel horrible".   Fine.  If I told you you have no idea where yor back wheels are, would you feel better?  Look at the grass at the end of the driveway.  If I said you drive like a Korean would you feel better? 

First week in June we pick up a small rental SUV and drop off the Jetta.  It's only sheet metal ........

She's mad at herself, embarrassed, and looking for an outlet. If you yell, she can then be mad at you instead. 

I know all about that. I've done it myself many times. Just be understanding. Things will be much better because of it.

Married almost 40 years, can count the number of arguments on one hand.

Sex by yourself is not as much fun.

Good God man, I thought you had said Mrs. 914 had PASSED.  

It happens. Everyone is ok, car is driveable, and you're just out the deductible. I don't get the feeling this is an occurrence that takes place on a regular basis.

I did that after an 18 hour drive from FL to PA once years ago. Pulled into a parking lot and misjudged where the brightly painted yellow pole was and put it into the rear quarter of the car.

I crunched a rocker on my MX6 once when I thought it would be fun to drive through a leaf pile, but hidden under the leaves was a big chunk of broken-off curb.

Ouch, right in the rocker, that's not gonna be cheap.

My wife backed her SUV into the passenger quarter of my car while in our driveway. Scratched bumper cover on her car, caved quarter on mine. I'm sure as hell not going to put an insurance claim on my own two cars, so I just shut my mouth and walked back inside. Oh, and she was 7 months pregnant at the time. She later asked why I didn't throw a fit after she bashed both of our cars and I replied that I preferred my own bed and breathing than to anger a pregnant woman....

slefain said:

Ouch, right in the rocker, that's not gonna be cheap.

Just pay the deductable and pick up a rental at the same place, fix it right there.

When 8 1/2 months pregnant Trish was going a tad fast in our M5 on a concrete highway in the rain, looped right through the intersection and fired backwards into a Mercedes Stealership.  Luckily the light was red, no traffic.  She just waited for it to turn green, headed out and turned left like nothing happened.

914Driver said:

slefain said:

Ouch, right in the rocker, that's not gonna be cheap.

 

Just pay the deductable and pick up a rental at the same place, fix it right there.

 

When 8 1/2 months pregnant Trish was going a tad fast in our M5 on a concrete highway in the rain, looped right through the intersection and fired backwards into a Mercedes Stealership.  Luckily the light was red, no traffic.  She just waited for it to turn green, headed out and turned left like nothing happened.

 

I did something similar. I wasn't pregnant, although I did have to take a dump, and was rushing a little bit to get home (because of the forthcoming BM). Well, I was in my new to me Miata, it was raining, and the turn starts right after going over the train tracks and is off-kilter just a little bit. Goosed it at the wrong time and did a full 360, just kept driving straight. People who saw must have thought I was a stunt driver. Or a big moron. Maybe both.

In reply to mtn :

If anyone asks, live the lie. It's gotta work better than the truth. 

Looks like a good reason to do an LS swap.

Did you do it intentionally? No.  Then fuggedaboudit.  we can get it fixed.

This is my mantra with SWMBO.  Saves a lot of arguing. 

JamesMcD said:

I crunched a rocker on my MX6 once when I thought it would be fun to drive through a leaf pile, but hidden under the leaves was a big chunk of broken-off curb.

My Samurai's driver door is still not straight because one time I brushed a bush. Inside the bush was the rear bogie of a semi trailer.

My wife ran into the pole in the middle of the garage.  She didn't do it on purpose, but she was still mad.  My aunt has done a couple of crazy things in regard to parking and backing up.  First, she backed out of the garage with the drivers door still open, and proceeded to rip it off her car.  The second is that she parked my cousins car, which was a stick shift, in their driveway, and didn't leave it in gear or put the parking brake on.  Their neighborhood is terraced and it ended up in someones backyard 3 streets over.  With the exception of a few fences, it didn't hit any houses, cars or people.  

racerdave600 said:

  The second is that she parked my cousins car, which was a stick shift, in their driveway, and didn't leave it in gear or put the parking brake on.  Their neighborhood is terraced and it ended up in someones backyard 3 streets over.  With the exception of a few fences, it didn't hit any houses, cars or people.  

I would pay pretty good money to see a video of that. 

My niece had a remote starter put in her Ranger truck, but didn't pay the dough for the manual trans version.  Leave truck parked on the street, in reverse, accidentally hit fob, find it in a hedge a couple of blocks down the street...

If it's my wife's car, no big deal. 

My car? Still no big deal.

I mentally write off every car any member of my family drives.

Toyman01 said:

I mentally write off every car any member of my family drives.

That is so true it hurts a little.  Part of the reason my wife learned to drive stick was so that nobody else in her family could borrow her car when they visit.  Let them wreck a rental car.

still, sheet metal can be fixed. Dead people cant.  No injury means it could have been worse.

racerdave600 said:

...she parked my cousins car, which was a stick shift, in their driveway, and didn't leave it in gear or put the parking brake on.  Their neighborhood is terraced and it ended up in someones backyard 3 streets over.  With the exception of a few fences, it didn't hit any houses, cars or people.  

When I was a kid, the uphill neighbor's wife did that.  Our driveways were directly across from each other.  Car rolled down her drive, across the street, and into our driveway.  When the front wheels hit our drive, the car turned and rolled between our house and the next-door neighbor's house.  Took out a small bush, but didn't even scratch the paint.

Maybe clean living?

My wife is a good driver, not such a good parker.

I bought her current DD pre-dented, didn't fix it. Turned out to be the right decision.

Someone gave your wife the pole and you are not mad?  Might want to re-read the thread on poly relationships over there...