So my GTI was keyed… the Interweb makes it all better…
Was following a thread on a forum and someone posted the following.
Lance: Still got your Malibu?
Vincent Vega: Aw, man. You know what some fucker did the other day?
Lance: What?
Vincent Vega: Fucking keyed it.
Lance: Oh, man, that’s fucked up.
Vincent Vega: Tell me about it. I had it in storage for three years, it was out for five days and some dickless piece of shit fucked with it.
Lance: They should be fucking killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.
Vincent Vega: Boy, I wish I could’ve caught him doing it. I’d have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It’d been worth him doing it just so I could’ve caught him doing it.
Lance: What a fucker!
Vincent Vega: What’s more chickenshit than fucking with a man’s automobile? I mean, don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle.
Lance: You don’t do it.
Vincent Vega: It’s just against the rules.
Pulp Fiction aside, it’s mildly amusing, annoying, frustrating, whatever… that I get away scot-free from a near nasty accident during the first snow of Redmond after some guy nearly rear ends me. Only later, to have some buffoon key the hood and drivers side. I don’t get why anyone would do that really. Unless they wanted to boost their ego in front of some drunken friends or whatever. Who knows. It’s not like they saw the look on my face after the fact. In so many ways I wish Seattle and the US in general was CCTV’d up the arse like London is. I’d hope that there’d be the day where you could actually file a police report, give them the time the car was parked at the location then they’d just review the CCTV for those times and get a nice picture of the perp.
Of course with 20/20 hindsight I could say that we should’ve taken Julie’s car. Who would really mess with a college student’s a to b car, especially when it’s a cute little Chevy Aveo with a bubble butt . We could’ve probably parked it in the same exact spot at the same time and the person would’ve left it alone. Or we could’ve not gone to the next pub after seeing her brother-in-law perform and been out of there before the incident happened. Who knows… It’s only a car, sure, it is however for most the second most valuable investment behind a house.
Anyway, what can you do. It’ll be a couple hundred bucks to fix, and hopefully won’t affect the premium on the insurance despite them shelling out $2200-2700 to fix it. Oh and not to mention that it’ll affect the trade-in value if I plan on selling the best car ever anytime soon but hey, it’s the best car ever. Don’t think that’ll be happening for some time to come (like when the Tesla is about the same price).
