So I considered, for a moment making this my first video blog. But I decided not to, mainly cause I want to post this now and I don’t want to spend all night editing a video, which I would and would encourage my insomnia.

The BF’s brother is here this weekend, and as always he parks his car as close as possible to the house as possible. Why I don’t know, as where he should park it really is only about 10 steps more from his car to the front door. The problem with where he parks? By now he should know better. Let’s go to the diagram.

Direct Hit!

First my apologies, this post is being made late at night, and thus the picture was taken then. I did my best, but the lighting conditions are obviously not optimal. The arrows and text aren’t my best work either, but for this hour they’ll suffice.

As you can see, we have a garage. In this garage is the Honda CRV, which is a car that sits a bit above the ground. What this photo doesn’t show is the line of trees to the right of the garage, as well as the slight downwards grass slop off the main driveway. Conclusion, pulling out of the garage and turning right to turn around is not an option.

Notice to the left of the garage is a fairly large area, all graveled. Labeled is the optimal parking zone. Why is this optimal? Simple, it isn’t in the way of backing out of the garage! Because when pulling out of the garage, one doesn’t have to go backwards and forwards 2-3 times in order to avoid collision to turn around and get the hell out of the driveway and onto the road.

So where does the BF’s brother always park, the optimal hit zone. This is also, if I may point out, a BLIND spot! When backing out of the garage, you can’t see a car here very easily, especially one that obviously is low to the ground when in a CRV! Furthermore when one is not used to cars being there, one can forget to remember a car is there.

Can you see where we are going with this post? Yes I backed into the BF’s brother’s car today. I put a noticeable dent in the trunk. The BF’s car is fine, it was the spare tire that did it. Let me also say I was only backing up at about 5 mph when this happened, and wondered what the hell did I just hit? Then it hit me (no pun intended), oh yeah the BF’s brother’s car.

Do I feel bad? Of course I do! You know what makes it a little better? The fact that he knows not to park there! I already backed into the car once before and knocked out his taillight! Even my BF told him this is a really bad place to park, as he’s almost totalled his car. Trust me, the BF pulls out of that garage like a bat out of hell!

You know what else makes me feel not so bad? His comments tonight. “It might be hard to find parts to fix the car, it’s almost 20 years old and they don’t make these cars anymore.” That’s pretty much a clue to get a new car! We aren’t talking about a classic here either. As you can see it’s a Chevy hatchback. Furthermore he has 2 of them. Why you ask? It was in fact a 2 for 1 deal when he bought them. No really, I’m serious so stop laughing. Note, you should probably never buy a car on a 2 for 1 deal. It probably means they really want to get rid of the cars for some reason.

Truth be told, he can probably get one of those dent-be-gone suction cup things from the “As Seen On TV” infomercials and fix it. Truth be told, the car will survive, the BF’s car has more dents and dings in it than this. Truth be told, the car(s) are 20 years old, they aren’t classics by far, so maybe it’s time to get a new car(s).

Yeah I probably shouldn’t be so aggravated or annoyed, especially since it isn’t my car that got dented, but seriously, don’t park your car there when you know it’s not a good spot.

6 Replies to “Back It Up Back It Up!”

  1. He parked in a really bad spot. Don’t feel bad. What’s a little dent on a 20 year old car between family? LOL @ 2 for 1.

  2. Seriously, they really had 2 for 1 deals on a car?? That should’ve been HUGE red flag:) Anyway, I love your picture and arrows. I wouldn’t feel bad at all about hitting his car because he knows better than to park it there!

  3. The diagram was the funniest thing I have seen all week, probably all month! Thanks for cheering me up 🙂

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