was i wrong ?

[73StangCoupe]

last night i went to the cruse night 300+cars just got finished cleaning my car .sitting there watching people touching my car .why i don't know some people just don't get it DON'T TOUCH THE CARS so a family comes up to take some pics and the father and daughter stand to the side of my car smiling and the kid has her hand on my car. i din't say a thing .but i'm thinking it .then the mother told the sun to stand in front of my car for a pic .he leans on my car and puts both hands on my hood and chrome trim and smiles .i got mad so in a loud voice i said what is wrong with you .you don't lean on peoples cars the family all turned and looked at me and i got a nasty look from them .they walked off then turned back and and i got another dirty look. so was i out of line?

No you were right.

I have had kids drip ice cream on my car - parents didn't care.

Had one show several kids were skateboarding around cars.

Had a guy lean in the window to look at the interior with a cigarette in his mouth.

I had these cards made and send them out with orders.

PM your address and I'll mail them to you if you want one.

Don

I'm with you Don... get some signs...

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[rpmcarter]

I have a different solution

If you leave your car covered with a layer of dust and grease and oil and bird droppings, people don't lean on it. A head in a jar on the air cleaner with a sign that says-"He scratched my car." that would work too

http://www.instructables.com/id/head-in-a-jar-prank/

:udaman:

 

[Mister 4x4]

In 1977 about a year after I painted my ’69 Vette it was parked at work and I saw a woman sitting on it. I went out nicely asked to please not sit on my car. “I ain’t hurtin’ it”. I had to debate with her about whether or not she could sit on MY car. I held my temper because it would be too easy for her to do a lot of damage sliding off.

About five years ago a local Dodge dealer invited Viper owners for a Saturday car show/brunch. A friend bought his new Viper. My wife noticed a woman leaning on it. My wife explained to the woman that this car was privately owned and asked her not to lean on it. “I ain’t hurtin’ it”.

I would've lost my freaken mind, and physically tossed her (either one of them) off my car. Seriously - I've actually done it before, as well.

At a car show a few years back, I had a similar issue when one of the Hot Boat guys came walking by my Jeep and started playing with my fenders (they fold out, so I open them up for the shows). He was not quite as tall as I am, but similar in build to me... and he was probably halfway through a case of beer he'd been working on all afternoon. I have a "Please Don't Touch" sign - the car show folks give 'em out in the registration bag o' goodies... which are usually not ignored. I asked him to please quit messing with my fenders, to which he tried to use the "I ain't hurtin' 'em" defense. I got right up in his face and asked him how he'd like it if I went down the way and plopped my fat ass right on the deck mural of his boat... waited for the look of shock, then told him to quit touching my f@ing Jeep. He, and both his equally half-drunk buddies simply walked away.

Not much gets me riled like that... but you DO NOT touch my cars, unless invited to do so. Man, woman, boy, girl, hot or not - I don't discriminate: HANDS OFF!! I'm not as anal about my trucks (tailgate down, lean on the bed, or whatever) it's a truck and that's what the bed area is for - the rest of it, though (hood, roof, front fenders, etc.) stay off it. I guess that means anything that's shiny, has been polished & waxed, and is intended to stay that way... which means pretty much everything on the exterior of a car. That feeling is especially strong with me right now, after having written a $5500 check for the paint on my "$1600 Mustang project."

Sorry.

Nailpounder: No - you were not wrong.

I had these cards made and send them out with orders.

PM your address and I'll mail them to you if you want one.

Don

Thank you, Don! I almost have enough of 'em now to "wall-paper" the outside of my Mustang.

 

[72HCODE]

not out of line.

do yourself a favor stop going to cruise and shows and just drive, you will thank me.

 

[Jeff73Mach1]

I occasionally attend a local Cars and Coffee, but I always make it a point to arrive after everyone else and to cruise up the aisle at full lope looking for a space. I'm looking forward to a freer flowing exhaust when I get a few other things wrapped up so I can make even more racket

 

[hyena429]

Yup...got to watch out thou..Anything goes at them shows..I heard horror stories from some members on here about telling people not to use his car as a table at a show..and some one got pissed and started rubbing ice cream all over his car...he went and stopped them..They called the cops..So the cops showed up, and was on side of the family. " atleast how i remember it told"

I seen alot of mistreated cars by people that was never taught any better at shows..But i have to say at the last big car show..I was suprized at the amount of kids and people being very carefull and respectfull of the cars....I took a pic of this mustang this year...Young kiddies being very good here

 

[cudak888]

Young kiddies being very good here

How much do you want to bet that those two kids are probably doing the majority of the work on their father's latest resto project right now?

Nothing breeds respect more than being the hand that restores them.

-Kurt

 

[matrixx]

Whatever happened to " if it's not yours, don't touch it!" That was drilled into my head as a child.

Those two above even have their hands behind their back just like I do when I'm getting close and checking out other cars. I don't know where the owner is but if he's looking at me he can see my arms are either behind my back or in my pockets.

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[sicndhed]

Went to lunch in my wife’s Chevy today. While we were eating somebody put his hands on the fenders so he could lean over and check out the engine. Before I could say anything she let out, “HEY QUIT LEANING ON MY CAR!!!” Her voice must have carried through the windows because he stepped back. Our server came up and said, “I think he heard you.” It’s not wise to mess with the BOSS or her stuff.

 

[rpmcarter]

Went to lunch in my wife’s Chevy today. While we were eating somebody put his hands on the fenders so he could lean over and check out the engine. Before I could say anything she let out, “HEY QUIT LEANING ON MY CAR!!!” Her voice must have carried through the windows because he stepped back. Our server came up and said, “I think he heard you.” It’s not wise to mess with the BOSS or her stuff.

wow.... wifey has a nice body!!! and I bet when she's on the strip she's hot. good looking Camaro!!!

 

[sicndhed]

In 1977 about a year after I painted my ’69 Vette it was parked at work and I saw a woman sitting on it. I went out nicely asked to please not sit on my car. “I ain’t hurtin’ it”. I had to debate with her about whether or not she could sit on MY car. I held my temper because it would be too easy for her to do a lot of damage sliding off.

About five years ago a local Dodge dealer invited Viper owners for a Saturday car show/brunch. A friend bought his new Viper. My wife noticed a woman leaning on it. My wife explained to the woman that this car was privately owned and asked her not to lean on it. “I ain’t hurtin’ it”.

I would've lost my freaken mind, and physically tossed her (either one of them) off my car. Seriously - I've actually done it before, as well.

I think Texas give property owners a lot more freedom to protect their stuff. I wanted to grab her and toss her off my car but I will bet that I would have gone to jail and there’d be a paragraph in the Chicago Tribune tiled, “Custom Corvette owner jailed for assaulting single mother who sat on his car”. I did not enjoy my time in police custody in 1976. I’ve tried very hard not to repeat the experience. My wife on the other hand may have forgotten how much she hated it about ten years ago. She probably would have gone all “Smack My Bitch up” (check out the Prodigy video, don’t skip the ending) if it were her car.

Don't mess with Texas or my wife.

Went to lunch in my wife’s Chevy today. While we were eating somebody put his hands on the fenders so he could lean over and check out the engine. Before I could say anything she let out, “HEY QUIT LEANING ON MY CAR!!!” Her voice must have carried through the windows because he stepped back. Our server came up and said, “I think he heard you.” It’s not wise to mess with the BOSS or her stuff.

wow.... wifey has a nice body!!! and I bet when she's on the strip she's hot. good looking Camaro!!!

Hot body and temper!

 

[Luke]

Now this happened back in the bad old days when men could take thier licks, it borders on an act of bastardry so I don't recommend it in today's world.

I had a very sutle custom HD the kind you don't realise how modified it is until its parked next to a stocker. There was about 4 bikes parked out the front of the boozer Friday Arvo.Every now and then 1 of us would wander out and make sure all was well wid the sickles. Anyways 1 of the old greybeards drags in a dude about 20, same age as me at the time, demands he empty his wallet on the bar and makes the dude buy drink for me and a drink for himself. We get the drinks and the old boys says to the bloke. You owe me this drink because I just saved you a lot of money in dentists bill and you owe Luke a drink because it was his bike you where sitting on when I uppercut you. He brought us 2 more drinks and left with the order to show up at the club house the next afternoon about 5 and don't make us come looking for you.

Anyways he showed up fairly quaking in his boots. We took him in let him watch the strippers and sent him home at dawn with the message of look don't touch firmly entrenched in his brain.

 

[rpmcarter]

lollerz

yeah you just DONT sit on someone's bike without permission. An uppercut???? dang ya boy etched that one into his memory.