Easter Weekend

[CJ_Boxster]

Originally Posted by NickCats

Hope you all had a better weekend than mine

Friday I am supposed to pick up the Benz from the repair shop. Transmission is fixed ( $1100 ! ) - but the car is not ready. Apparently, I have a power steering leak and the pump needs to be replaced. Cost - $350 ! There goes $1450 and the Performance driving school this weekend down the drain

Saturday take my girl out for a nice dinner then to the casino we go. Got my a$$ kicked on the craps table !

Sunday meet my Dad at a cousin's house for Easter. I get there first and park in the street ( residential neighborhood in the Chicago suburbs ) - My dad arrives about a 1/2 hour later. After some appetizers he asks me to go get the camera out of his car ( he has a brand new Lincoln Navigator ). When I go outside I notice he is parked behind me. As I get closer it turns out that MY FATHER HIT MY CAR ! - Sure enough his front bumper is mashed into the rear of my Boxster. After the initial shock wears off I get in his car, back it up, and inspect the damage. It's scratched up pretty bad from his license plate, and of course no damage to his car. I go back inside and for the first time in my life yell at my dad ! This is a nice residential neighborhood with abundant parking, why in the world he parked right behind me and felt the need to pull so close I'll never know...

Anyway, thanks for listening to ( or reading me ) vent. Hope you all had a better weekend than mine...

Nick

Tell me about it, i dont understand why sometimes people park SOOOO close to a really really nice car when there is ALOT of parking all around. I think its a bad habit of some people to park extremely close to others.... Who knows, maybe he thought he was doing you a favor incase someone wanted to rob your car, they wouldnt be able to get outta the parking spot. I woulda yelled to so dont feel bad for your feelings and reactions. Some weeks are just really bad.

Try to buff out as much as you can to avoid repainting it.

[Grizzly]

Nick,

While I feel your pain, I have to agree with Bnorman. I'd help my Dad beat all my cars to death with a sledgehammer and drive through the middle of my house with an earthmover, if I could just have him back for five minutes.

[unklekraker]

Gosh..I wasn't going to comment about the story of me and my dad but I can;t help it but share it with you guys...The outcome of this life changing event into my life was..I treat everyday like that's the last time Im going to see my wife, my 3 kids , friends and everyone I met during my lifetime...

I haven't spoke to or seen my dad for the past 12 years.I hated him coz' how he left me to my grandma and my mom with the rest of my bro's and sister. I didn't even let him see my kids..but as I grow older, I realize that in order for me to move on is to forgive my dad and ask for forgiveness..to make the long story short, I make amends to him, start talking on the phone, let my kids talk to him, introduce my dad as their grandpa. so we planned a reunion..after 12 long years..finally, I will get to see my DAD! everyones excited..he prepared the house and the room for us...4 days before the whole family will get to see my dad, i got a phone call from my sister, she said that dad got a heart attack, in the hospital but he's okay now and will be checking out in 2 days...SO i decided to go home ahead of my family...a day before I will get to finally see my dad, to finally hug him, to feel what a hug from a dad feels like...my DAD past away at the doorstep of the hospital.....

TO this day, it's been 7 years, I could still hear my dad saying I LOVE YOU, Son! that was the last word that I heard from him when we hang up the phone....

Our Boxster is just a car but, it's a way of me spending quality time with my daughter, my son and my wife!

[NickCats]

Thanks everyone !

Nick