Posted: Dec 25 2004 at 8:47pm | IP Logged

Your discussion of dings caught my attention. I was actually banned from a motel in Athen, GA because I had the gall to say something to an old fellow after he rocked my new 1977 Mercury Cougar with his door while I was sitting in the car. I have now developed a specialty which involves finding the most ding proof parking spot in the parking lot. It is not always the one that is farthest out. I try to think like the most lazy POS in the world and figure where they would park. Then avoid. Give Camaros and Firebirds pleanty of room. They are the most deadly dingers.  The side of the building or parking lot is most ignored. My wife has now accepted the ritual of the "drive-thru" of the parking lot for those I have not visited before in order to gain a familiarity.

And if I am there when it happens - all guns blazing. 911, the police, the works. The bastards will pay.