Well my friends, I got keyed! URRGGG!!!!

"GreenN_Gold" (GreenN_Gold)
08/14/2015 at 16:25 • Filed to: None

I know my credibility is on the line when I say I did nothing to “deserve” this (if anyone deserves to get keyed), but it’s true. I always leave as much room for other people as possible. I’ve been parking in this garage for 10 years. Even on the day it happened, I was on an end spot hugging the side of the space away from the car next to me. I can only think it was a random act of vandalism. If not, I wish they would have conveyed their feeling in a note instead of with their keys. Now it’s time to figure out how to fix it. In this case, it just may buff right out.

DISCUSSION (17)

Bullitt Ride > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 16:28

GreenN_Gold > Bullitt Ride
08/14/2015 at 16:32

Thank you, I needed that.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 16:38

When I lived in Florida I got keyed once. I hardly knew anyone and hadn’t pissed any one off. I mean it didn’t really hurt the paint any, so I don’t understand why they would do it. Someone also stole my rear window wiper and broke the mount.

GreenN_Gold > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
08/14/2015 at 16:40

Didn’t hurt the paint?

BrtStlnd > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 16:44

Last year I was donating some clothes to Goodwill and I came out to my passenger rear view mirror and door bashed and scratched. Granted it was REALLY windy that day... someone’s door got away from them I’d imagine, and they got scared when they saw the damage and bolted. What can you do?

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 16:55

The paint has spent most of it’s 20 years in Florida and California, so it’s pretty far gone.

GreenN_Gold > BrtStlnd
08/14/2015 at 16:55

Well if you’re me, you can stand next to your car all by yourself and cuss a lot.

NoneOfYourBiz > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:05

That sucks. :\

Cruise over to Reddit.com/r/AutoDetailing.

Visit their wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoDetailin…
(specifically, Code-Sloth’s surface damage guide)

You will never know why you got keyed.

My ex had her taillight smashed once. She figured it was a careless truck backing into her but the geometry didn’t work. I gave her this theory:

She had a university bumper sticker.

Imagine a blue-collar, at will employee, show up at work drunk one day and the bosses daughter, someone he thought of as “that snooty university chick,” firing him.

Now he’s pissed, and unemployed, and sees my girlfriend’s car with a university bumper sticker. All he thinks of is the bosses daughter who fired him and he smashes the taillight. That’ll show her!

Know what? While the above scenario is fiction, it illustrates the point: there are a multitude of reasons why someone would wrong-headedly decide to damage your property. It sucks. You feel violated when it happens (I’ve had a window smashed) but you’re probably still having a better day than the drunk guy who just got fired.

GreenN_Gold > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
08/14/2015 at 17:05

I see, I thought it was a magical harmless keying.

Future next gen S2000 owner > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:10

I’ve had my car for ten years. For nine of those years, the exterior was fine. Even withstanding a coconut to the windshield on the highway.

One day at work, some one door checked my car and dent the rear wheel arch. Right on the crease in the sheet metal.

I feel your pain.

Garrett Davis > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:15

This shit makes my blood boil. Damn I’d be so pissed. I am now in a slightly worse mood and it wasn’t even my car.

“It would be worth him doing it, just so I could catch him.”

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:17

Wow, what dickless douchbags.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:22

It was more of a what kind of joy would that bring keying.

GreenN_Gold > NoneOfYourBiz
08/14/2015 at 17:23

Thanks for the tips!

I have only developed one theory, and that is that someone noticed that I parked in a way to protect my car (by hugging the side of the spot furthest from other cars - I did not take two spots, or crowd anyone) and decided that my car wasn’t nice enough to worry about so much - or that I was a douche for even caring that much about my car to try and protect it - and so they decided, “Here, take this to your precious stupid car, you loser!” As you said, I have no idea, but the mind wanders. The mind wants to know.

NoneOfYourBiz > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:28

*nods* Humans are hard wired to look for reasons and patterns where there are none; it’s an evolved trait that, at some point in human history, gave us a better chance at surviving.

Your theory is plausible but it could just have been some mentally unstable person who thought your car was a Bantha and he was slaying it. Don’t drive yourself crazy over it.

BTW: my ex took my story as a cue to remove her university bumper sticker. You don’t want to do anything to make your car stand out from all the other cars. I drive a 10-year old beater because of this kind of thing.

GreenN_Gold > NoneOfYourBiz
08/14/2015 at 17:41

“it could just have been some mentally unstable person who thought your car was a Bantha and he was slaying it”

Lol, this is now my top theory.

My car is cue-less so to speak. Not by plan really, but it is just void of any stickers or plate frames. It could be guilty by association because a lot of people hate WRX drivers for a lot of good reasons. #NotAllWRXs

E92M3 > GreenN_Gold
08/14/2015 at 17:51

I think you’re right here. They trick is to not be too obvious. Don’t park too far away. Park close enough that there’s a 10% chance someone will park next to you. I used to pick the best spot in the lot, but people would park an inch away on purpose. One time someone poured a coke all over my car. Now I park 4 or 5 spots away from the furthest cars. Leaving plenty of closer spaces to choose from, also appearing it may have been busier earlier, and some people have left. There is however a small chance it WILL get busier and someone will park next to you.