| Re: WWCGD? What to do about my f'd up Corvette paint and f'd up neighbor dillema...? |
Subject: Re: WWCGD? What to do about my f'd up Corvette paint and f'd up neighbor dillema...? by bogus on 2013/2/9 18:28:12 I had a flash back... 1980... Dover Air Force Base. Specifically, the water tower: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmahaffie/24143189/ The pic is the best I could find on the web... doesn't matter a lot, but, the tower is on the south side of the base. The nearest building is the BX, and the tower is actually another 200'+ to the east, in front of the Commissary. On this one day, they decided to paint said water tower. It was a normal work day; not a Sunday when everything was closed... And a nice west wind kicked up! Sending white over spray EVERY WHERE!!! If I had to guess, well over 100 cars were damaged. All got free detailing certificates. And that did fix Mom's car. But she was livid when she got home!!! She could easily get so wound up over something like this... hates stupid and non-thinking people... and then in her own blind rage, can't see the solution... it's too big a problem to see the solution, it can't be fixed, so let me stay in this blind rage. I said look, call the base admin office. Tell them what happened. I would also call State Farm... So she calls the base, is told she wasn't the first to complain, took her name and address, and about 2 weeks later got this cert for a detailing, which did a great job of getting the spots off. I don't think they had to paint any cars because of this, and there were no scratches in the paint at all. Just white paint spots. After that, any painting of the water tower was done either on Sunday or the lot downwind was closed. |
