From day one I've been extremely careful with my car not to park too cose to curbs or parking blocks. Other than two miniscule rock chips my GTO was pristine, better than showroom-fresh, never even driven on a wet road. Well it finally happened. We went to a party last week(posted in the Friday night thread), and the driveway at this house is one of those excessively steep ones with a big dip at the bottom. Going up wasn't a problem, but coming down was. I saw this horrible angle and though "Oh crap". I was sure that going straight at it would have torn my bumper clean off or at least crushed it pretty good. So I backed as far to one side as I could and took it at the shallowest angle possible, barley creeping through the dip. I thought I was in the clear until the very last inch or two when I heard this faint sound like stepping on dry, brittle leaves. Well here's the result. In hindsight I probably should have backed up the hill, turned around and backed down the driveway.
Damn! Excuse the crappy camera phone shot.
What annoys me most is this guy's spread is about $5 million. Everything about the place is impeccably designed and maintained. Did he bother to think about the end of the driveway? Noooooo. You should see the battle scars on the pavement. It actually looks a lot like the underside of my front bumper.
GRRRRRRR!
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