A couple weeks ago we took my ridiculous, flashy car to a gay nightspot. We never thought of it as a big deal. This is a big city with a lot of diversity, gay clubs seemed pretty benign.
When we came back to the parking lot, someone had egged the cars. That's right. Some angry, bitter person had bought several dozen eggs and threw them on cars parked at this spot in the blazing heat. That bitter person seemed to focus on the nicer cars, so I got two. Oh joy.
I took it to get it fixed. They had to repaint two sections. $300. O.M.G.
My first instinct was that having a flashy car made me a target. But that's not it, this was just some unhappy soul.
I then thought that if I drove a less flashy car, it might be cheaper to fix. Fixing things on a nice car is not cheap. But, if I had a cheaper car if it would have been the same. Even if I had the old Honda we gave a needy family member, I probably would have fixed it. The Honda it would have cost a couple hundred I bet. You just can't fight hate by selling your nice car.
4 comments:
If by "some unhappy soul" you mean "homophobe," then yes, you're probably right. That's who egged your car.
Wow, I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm also amazed that they needed to respray panels from eggs! Don't they just wash off?
Without sweltering Texas summer heat, they wash off. But these baked on my car for several hours, and they made the paint, actually the clear coat of paint, hazy.
It looked really awful considering where they were and the fairly dark color of my car.
Yes I agree it's a homophobe. And better off not saying much about that type of people.
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