She needs a tennis ball on a piece of string suspended from the roof. When the ball hits the windscreen you know to stop.
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TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
So guess who gets his car back? Iâve warned the mrs time and time again to slow the f down and be more careful with it, but she drives like shes a character on mariokart. For some dumb reason she put an office chair in the garage to be thrown out, but it just hasnât been done yet. I came home last night to find the office chair pinned between the brand new car and the end of the garage wall. She didnât even notice sheâd done it, and yep, shes scratched and dented the panel. Accidents happen, but iâve been warning her for WEEKS something like this was going to happen. I didnt yell but MAAAAAN I am pissed.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Or, hear me out, learn the size of your car and garage. The sizes do not change. Figure it out and work with it.
Harsh, but I have very little sympathy for people who arenât aware of their car when driving/parking.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Duuude you wanna know the real bad part? I left this out for the shortness of the story, but since she got her ânewâ car sheâs insisting that it goes in the garage. Technically everything will fit, both cars in gives is 600mm between the walls and each car, but Iâve stressed this is a bad idea since A) her car was lightly damaged by the previous owners and she doesnt want to pay to fix it so is it really worth the squeeze? and B) 2 cars in such close proximity with a young kid? someoneâs gonna get scratched.
One is a 45k suv, the other is an 8k 12 year old hatch, one is worth protecting the other is not. And yet, she still managed to scratch the SUV when her car wasnt even in the garage. So sheâs lost parking privilegeâs in the garage.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Or she could just reverse in. Its a 2023 âLuxuryâ (cough bullshit cough) SUV. its got reverse parking sensors. There were so many points at that this was a preventable accident, and she knew how obsessed I was with looking after it I just cant accept she was unintentionally this oblivious.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
REVERSE SENSORS and it still happened?
Nah, thatâs car privileges lost right there. Also, when parking one should always to reverse into the spot if practical.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh please. May I remind you both that it was a minor bingle with an office chair. Shit happens. No one died. Lucky it was in the garage and not in an actual public parking spot.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Um, donât you two have a child? Iâd be less concerned about scratches and more concerned she didnât notice she hit something. Today it was an office chair⌠When your child is a walking toddlerâŚ
Iâm not trying to shit on her, but she needs more awareness in these situations (I obviously donât you or her, so this is just based on this post).
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
100% agree. iâve warned her in the past if I catch her âgo kartingâ with the kid in the car again there will be a serious conversation. But no, Tinyest cant walk yet, and is never unsupervised outside.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs definitely a serious concern especially as visibility of small children from high set SUVs is atrocious. So easy to run over even a 5yo. Maybe frame it as a matter of costs too, if sheâs not receptive to comments on her driving skill (and I say this as someone who sucks at parking) If not the cost to fix the car, because maybe she thinks itâs nbd, then the reduced value of the car when itâs time to sell.